186 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



borhood of Philadelphia, Pa., either jointly or severally imported 

 from England, or purchased from Mr. Whitaker's importation in some 

 of those years, some Short-horn bulls and cows, which were said to 

 be of good quality and full pedigrees. Several progeny descended 

 from these animals, and a few stray ones, through the hands of other 

 parties whose stock run into them, have been hunted up, and their 

 pedigrees recorded in the American Herd Book. But from the 

 neglect or indifference of their proper owners, many of their pedi- 

 grees, together with the cattle themselves, have been lost, and only 

 occasional traces can now be found of them. 



A striking instance of the self-sufficiency of some men, in their 

 own pretensions in one of these cases, as well as in some others of 

 past days in the matter of pedigrees may be given. When a certain 

 party was asked if he put the pedigrees of his cattle in the Herd 

 Book, he scornfully answered : " No ! if my word is not good enough 

 evidence of their pure breeding, no Herd Book record can make it 

 any better." We fancy that most cattle breeders would rather have 

 a clean Herd Book record than the bare assertion, from the imperfect 

 memory of any man. Through such lofty assumptions many other- 

 wise valuable pedigrees of good Short-horns in this country have 

 been lost. 



In the year 1836 Messrs. Edward A. Le Roy and Thomas H. New- 

 bould, at Avon, Livingston county, N. Y., imported from England the 

 bull Windle, 185 (5667), and the cows Dione, by Monarch (4494); 

 Lady Morris, by Priam (4758); Netherby, by Gambier (2047); and 

 Venus, by Magnum Bonum (2244) a choice selection. The stock 

 was carefully bred for eight or ten years, occasional sales during the 

 time being made from them. Soon afterwards these gentlemen mak- 

 ing sale of their farms the stock was likewise sold, and the herds 

 scattered. 



About the same time as the above, the late Mr. Peter A. Remson, 

 of Alexander, Genesee county, N. Y., imported the bull Alexander, 4, 

 and the cows Adelaide, by Cupid (1894) ; Lavinia, by a son of Scipio 

 (1421); and Prettyface, by Henwood (2114). Mr. Remson bred 

 them for some years, and sold several of them and their produce 

 while at Alexander. On selling his farm in 184-, he soon afterwards 

 removed the few remaining ones to another farm, which he occupied 

 in Maryland, where, within two or three years, they were finally sold, 

 and further traces of them lost, except as some of the pedigrees of 

 their descendants have since appeared in the American Herd Book. 



