152 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



known English buyer, stating that she was pure 

 bred. 



Going to vol. 3 published the same year Mr. 

 Tipton brought the first Shorthorn to Kansas, 

 (1857), we find the bull, York recorded as fol- 

 lows : " York 2396, bred in Rensselear Co., K Y. ; 

 got by Regent 899. Interbred from the Golden, 

 Cox and Bullock importations." The editor of 

 the herd book evidently had no positive infor- 

 mation beyond the locality of this bull's birth and 

 the name of his sire and it may be well ques- 

 tioned whether the evidence was positive even as 

 to the sire. 



This is one extreme. Here is another. In the 

 same volume is recorded the pedigree of Young 

 Belvedere 2409. His pedigree covers one-third 

 of a page and gives the ancestry in regulation 

 Shorthorn form for seventeen generations. A 

 few pedigrees were also recorded later that did 

 not trace to any cow imported from Great Brit- 

 ain. These were what we would now call grades 

 and Mr. Allen justified his course by stating that 

 evidence of their descent from pure bred stock 

 had been furnished him. The recording of these 

 cattle raised such a storm of protest, however, 

 that this practice was not repeated and the des- 

 cendants of these cows so recorded were popular- 

 ly referred to as tracing to the "American 

 Woods." For years, until 1907, ending with 

 vol. 69, the words " Tracing to Imp." were given 



