i-'-I A IIISTOia' (IK SlKlltTjrdliXS IN KAN.SAS 



known l^]ii^li.sli bu3^ei-, statiiij;- tliat hIic. was pure, 



(Join;:;- to vol. ;*> puhlislicd Uk^ same year Mi'. 

 Ti^jtoii Ijrouyiit tlie first Sliortli<irii to Kansas, 

 (1857), wc! find the bull, Yoi-k recorded as Jol- 

 lows: "York 239G, bred in Kensselear 0(x, N. Y. ; 

 got by Kegent 899. Intcirbred from tlie (lolden. 

 Cox and iJulloek inqxii'tations. " The cdiloi- of 

 tlie herd book evidently had iio positive infoi'- 

 matioii Ijeyoiid the locality of tins l)ull 's birtli and 

 the name of his sire and it may b(; well (pies- 

 tioned whether the evidenee was ])ositive even as 

 to the sii'C. 



This is one extreme. Her*; is aiiothe:'. In the 

 same volume is recorded the pedij^'ree of Young- 

 Belvedere 2409. Jlis ])edigi'ee covers one-1hird 

 of a page and gives the ancestry in regulation 

 Shorthorn form for s(;venteen generations. A 

 few pedigrees were also recorded later that did 

 not trace to any cow imported li'om Great Brit- 

 ain. These were what we would now call gi-ades 

 and Mr. Allen justified his coui'se by stating that 

 evidence of their descent f)-om pure l)i-ed slock 

 had be(!n furnislnxl him. Th(^ i-ecording of 1hese 

 cattle I'aised such a sloiin of pi'o1es1, howe\'ei-, 

 that this ])ra<-ti<-e was not repealed and the des- 

 cendanls of th(!se cows so rec<ii'ded were popuhir- 

 ly referred to as ti-acing to 1he "Amei'ican 

 Woods." For yeai-s, until 1907, ending witli 

 \'ol. 69, tlie words "Tracing to imp." were given 



