HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



There is still another class of imported non-pedigreed Short-horns, 

 or with but a single cross or two of pedigree attending them, which 

 need a like explanation, as the Pattons and iSiy's. From the year 

 1816, (in which the Cox importation into Rensselaer county, N. Y., 

 was made,) and during later years, to 1830, sundry Short-horns were 

 brought over from England, to all appearance well bred, and so certi- 

 fied by the breeders' certificates. Some of these and their produce 

 had also been recorded in the English Herd Book, and of course were 

 entitled to record in the American. Cox's bull is (3513), E. H. B. 



Yet a later class of non-pedigreed cows or with only a single 

 cross or two attached have been introduced, beginning in 1834, 

 with the first importation of the Ohio Company, and continued dur- 

 ing the two or three years of their subsequent arrivals. A few such 

 cows came out with other good pedigreed ones to Kentucky in 

 1837-9. Some others were also imported into several of the Eastern 

 States and there bred. These short, and non-pedigreed ones, were 

 purchased of the same classes of breeders as were the pedigreed 

 cows, and some of them came over in the same ships with them. 

 They were, apparently, equally well bred, showed as well in quality, 

 and the buyers were assured by their English breeders of whom they 

 purchased them that they were thorough-bred Short-horns, although 

 they gave no written evidence of the fact. Why the short, or non- 

 pedigreed cows were bought, when those having good pedigrees 

 could be readily obtained, it is now hard to say. But most of them 

 were accepted by our home breeders in their several localities, on 

 their arrival, as pure Short-horns, their produce have been recorded 

 in the Herd Books, and they stand unquestioned in public opinion 

 as well-bred animals. We do not name the cows alluded to, but 

 they and their produce can be readily found by referring to the 

 records. The same state of facts apply to other cows which were 

 imported a dozen or fifteen years later into several States. On look- 

 ing at the circumstances attending these later non-pedigreed cows of 

 1834 to 1856, and the like circumstances attending the importations 

 of 1817 to 1830, twenty to thirty odd years earlier, and with equal 

 evidences of good breeding, we fail to discover the equity of reason- 

 ing which makes the produce of the later ones thorough-breds, and 

 leaves the produce of the earlier ones, with several additional and 

 equally good crosses in their veins, only grade animals ! All the non- 

 pedigree classes we have named having been admitted to record 

 in the English Herd Book, they could not be excluded from the 

 American record without upsetting the entire system on which the 



