154 A HISTORY OP SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



after the ancestry in each pedigree and, as it was 

 imijossible to so designate the pedigrees of these 

 so-called American Woods Sliorth(jrns, the pedi- 

 gree, immediately after the name of the last an- 

 cestor, ended in "etc." This designated that 

 tliey did not trace to an imported cow and tliey 

 were discriminated against until al)out 1890 and 

 long after all })ossil)le non-Shorthorn blood had 

 been bred out. The champions of tliese cattle 

 bred from a p(jssible American grade founcUition 

 call attention to the fact that the English herd 

 book placed on record animals with only five 

 recorded ci'osses to which the American purist 

 prom})tly responded that such Shorthorns, even 

 if bred in England, traced to the "English 

 Woods." Thus it came a))out that in my youth- 

 ful days we heard as much aliout English Woods 

 and American Woods as we do now al)out equally 

 foolish or more foolish, tlunigh modern discrim- 

 inations. 



All Shorthorns originally came from the so- 

 called vShorthorn conntry in England. From 

 this ci-adle of the breed they found their way in 

 America, most of them l)eing imported between 

 1817 and 1850. They were also taken to Scotland 

 and to Ireland. All kinds and lengths of ])edi- 

 grees went with tlx'Ui ranging from nothing to 

 some almost as long as the moral law. The ]'ank- 

 est kind of ])edigree discrinunation ]»i'evailed, 

 based on teclmicalities which would now seem 



