196 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



Morris and Becar bought the bull Duke of Gloster, 2763 (11382), 

 and the cow Duchess 66th, by 4th Duke of York (10167), which 

 they brought home and bred with their previously established herd, 

 until the death of Mr. Becar, which most unfortunately occurred in 

 the year 1854, in the full maturity of his vigor and usefulness. Mr. 

 Becar was a native of France, and emigrating when a young man to 

 the city of New York, he established himself as a merchant, which 

 occupation he for many years successfully pursued. He married an 

 American wife, whose family held large possessions of land on Long 

 Island, and were among its most intelligent farmers. In possession 

 of one of those attractive farms Mr. Becar cultivated alike its acres 

 and his Short-horns with assiduity and success, during the few years 

 which he devoted to the pursuit. Soon after his death, his late 

 partner, Col. Morris, purchased his interest in the herd, and a few 

 months afterwards (selling out meantime many valuable young bulls 

 to various breeders in different States) he transferred them in one 

 entire sale to Mr. Samuel Thome, at Thorndale, Dutchess county, N.Y. 



Anticipating a year or two of time, we follow the herd of Messrs. 

 Morris and Becar into the hands of Mr. Thorne, and merging them 

 in his own recently well-selected herd, we must pass to an account of 

 that gentleman's Short-horn importations and breeding. 



In the year 1850 Mr. Jonathan Thorne, of the city of New York, 

 having on his extensive farm, at Thorndale, a couple of Short-horn 

 cows recently bought of Mr. Vail, at Troy, sent out to his son, Edwin 

 Thorne, then in England, to purchase and send him a Short-horn 

 bull. The order was filled by the importation of St. Lawrence, 1005 

 (12037), bred by Capt. Pelham, of the Isle of Wight. The young 

 bull, calved only in the previous November, arrived in America early 

 in the spring of 1851, and was taken to Mr. Thome's farm, where he 

 remained until of breeding age. He was afterwards sold to the late 

 Dr. Elisha Warfield, near Lexington, Ky., where he did good service 

 in his herd for some years. 



In the summer of 1852, Mr. Thome received, on an order which 

 he sent to Mr. Robert Bell, of England, two heifers, Forget-me-not 

 2d, by 4th Duke of York (10167), an d Countess, by 3d Duke of 

 Oxford (9047) ; also from J. S. Tanqueray the young cow Ellen 

 Gwynne, by Sir Harry (10819). This last named cow (pregnant 

 before shipped), after her arrival in America, produced the bull calf 

 Young Balco, 1124, got by Balco (9918), and soon afterwards died 

 from a quantity of nails found in her stomach, after death. 



