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years, and until bulls were bought from Col. Powel, of Philadelphia, 

 who had begun his Short-horn importations in the year 1824, two 

 years after the first English Herd Book was issued, wherein the 

 pedigrees of his stock were recorded. 



Philadelphia and Baltimore for many years had been the principal, 

 perhaps the only markets at which the Kentucky and central Ohio 

 breeders and drovers sold their best beef cattle, and they soon found 

 and saw the newly imported Short-horns. Ascertaining that some 

 of them were for sale, they wisely opened their purses and obtained 

 a few choice ones bulls to cross upon their Patton and 1817 bloods, 

 and cows to rear from them younger and equally pure blooded ones 

 with which to perpetuate their stocks. From that time forward 

 the Kentucky, and such of the Ohio breeders as had adopted them, 

 throve apace with their herds, exhibited them at their domestic cattle 

 shows, took prizes in competition with each other, and sold their 

 surplus animals to their neighbors, and into other States, gave them 

 pedigrees, truly, no doubt, yet the great majority of them ending in 

 the "Durham cow," the "Teeswater cow," "Mrs. Motte," or with the 

 bulls Buzzard, Pluto, Mars, Shaker, of the Patton stock, with the other 

 names of San Martin (2599), Tecumseh (5409), Comet, and Prince 

 Regent (of 1817), occurring in more or less Of the pedigrees.* Thus 

 the Patton, the Sanders importation of 1817, and the later Powel stocks 

 were all intermingled in the general class of Short-horns, and many 

 of their pedigrees sent over to the successive volumes of the English 

 Herd Book for record, where they were welcomed and published 

 without reserve or exception. Among them were frequent animals 

 (as related by several of the old breeders who have been mentioned) 

 which would pass creditably in most of the modern herds. Numer- 

 ous descendants of those stocks have been distinguished as prize 

 winners, even down to the present day, in some of the noted show- 

 rings of the Short-horn localities. 



With the array of early animals without known pedigrees, both 

 imported, and American bred, which we find recorded in the English 

 Herd Book, it legitimately follows that the breeders of them and their 

 produce were entitled to a continuation of such pedigrees in the 

 American record ; and equally entitled to admission by the side of 

 them were like pedigrees of animals of other breeders, which had not 

 been sent to England for record. The proposition needs no argument. 



*It is proper to state here that the pedigrees of the bulls Pluto, 825 ; Mars, 1850 ; Shaker, 2193 ; 

 Comet, 1382, and Prince Regent, 877, whose numbers ^are only in the American Herd Book, were 

 not publicly recorded until the ad and 3d volumes of the latter were published. 



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