IQO . HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



Cows. 



Victoria (dam of Prince Albert), sold to R. Fisher $i,75O 



Miss Hopper, sold to Thomas Calmes, 270 



Elizabeth, sold to A. McClure, 505 



Maria (calf of Elizabeth), sold to J. B. Ford, 310 



Miss Luck, sold to H. Clay, Jr., Bourbon county, 800 



Fashion, sold to G. W. Williams, 440 



Zela (calf of Fashion), sold to G. W. Williams 445 



Splendor, sold to B. Gratz, 650 



Tulip, sold to A. McClure, * 700 



Britannia, and heifer calf Dido, sold to H. T. Duncan, 375 



Isabella, sold to R. Fisher 355 



Lady Eliza, sold to H. Clay, Jr., Bourbon county, 660 



Lily, sold to T. Calmes, 390 



Nancy, sold to C. J. Rogers, 730 



Avarilda, sold to John Allen, 920 



Beauty, sold to H. Clay, Fayette county 700 



Flora (calf of Beauty), sold to H. Clay, Fayette county, 410 



Miss Maynard, sold to A. McClure, 1,005 



Jessica, sold to Joel Higgins, 330 



Rosabella, sold to William A. Warner 465 



Average, $610 each. $12,210 



Of these animals Mercer county took 5 ; Scott county 5 ; Fayette 

 county 8; Jessamine county 4; Clark county 2; Bourbon county 5. 

 Where the remaining 2 went the account does not state. 



Under the depression of the money market of the country at the 

 time, although at lower prices than paid at some previous sales of the 

 kind, the result may be considered a good one. 



In the Franklin (Ky.) Farmer of June, 1839, it is stated that Lewis 

 Shirley, of Louisville, Ky., imported from England, and brought there 

 the bulls General Chasse, calved in 1834; Liverpool, calved in 1838; 

 and another, called Young Matchem, all having good pedigrees. Only 

 a few pedigrees in A. H. B. trace their lineage to these bulls. 

 It is also stated in the same paper, that Mr. Shirley in the autumn of 

 1839, sold the bull Velocipede (imported in 1836) to Kendall & Co., 

 Elkton, Ky., for $1,500; and the bull Liverpool to a company in 

 Nelson county, Ky., for $1,000. 



In February, 1840, Messrs. Wait & Bagg brought to New York 

 from England, seven Short-horns, bulls and cows. One of the cows, 

 Empress, by Cyrus (3538), was sold to Mr. George Vail, Troy, N. Y., 

 and in the succeeding year they took others of the importation to 



