PERIOD OF BIG IMPORTS CONCLUDED 517 



At our request Mr. R. J. Kinzer, Secretary of the 

 American Hereford Breeders' Association, Kansas 

 City, Mo., lias compiled a list of all the Herefords 

 imported from Great Britain into the United States 

 between the years 1848 and 1886 inclusive, in so far 

 as is shown by the records of the association. It 

 will be understood that these figures merely repre- 

 sent cattle the pedigrees of which were sent for reg- 

 istry in the herd book, and do not include many of 

 those imported in the ante-herd book days. Fur- 

 thermore, it is probable that at different periods ad- 

 ditional cattle were brought in that were either 

 ineligible to record or whose pedigrees were lost be- 

 fore registration in this country was commenced. 



Many different estimates have been made as to 

 the number of cattle transferred from Hereford- 

 shire to the States during the boom days of the 

 early '80 's. "Bell's Messenger," one of the lead- 

 ing agricultural papers of Great Britain at that 

 time, estimated in 1884 that during the five years 

 preceding that date there had been exported to the. 

 United States between 3,900 and 4,000 head; It will 

 be observed that this estimate approximates the 

 total number recorded on this side the water as 

 shown by the subjoined tabulation, which we have 

 arranged in the order of the number of animals im- 

 ported by the respective firms, corporations and 

 individuals included. It will be observed that the 

 heaviest importations centered in the territory west 

 of the Mississippi River, the headquarters for the 

 two largest operators being in the state of Iowa. 



