152 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



Noel J. Becar, of New York, bought others of the "Duchess" 

 aad "Oxfords," to which they added more from other choice 

 herds. These were all brought over here, and bred. Mr. Ezra 

 Cornell, of Ithaca, and Mr. James O. Sheldon, of Geneva, N. Y., 

 soon afterwards made some importations, and obtained some of 

 the "Bates" blood also. The late Gen. James S. Wadsworth, 

 and other gentlemen of the Genesee Valley, N. Y., also made 

 importations. These " Bates " importations have since been bred 

 so successfully by their holders here, that several young bulls, 

 and heifers, bred by Mr. Thome and Mr. Sheldon, have been 

 purchased by English breeders, and sent over to them at good 

 prices, where they are highly valued. 



In 1852-3-4, several spirited companies were formed in 

 Clinton, Madison, and other counties in Ohio, and in Bourbon, 

 Fayette, and some other counties of Kentucky, and made 

 importations of the best cattle to be found in the English herds, 

 and after their arrival here, distributed among their stockholders. 

 Mr. R. A. Alexander, of Kentucky, also, during those years, 

 made extensive importations of choice blood for his own breed- 

 ing, so that in the year 1856, it may be said that the United 

 States possessed, according to their numbers, as valuable a selec- 

 tion of short-horns as could be found in England itself. 



Keeping pace with the States, a number of enterprising Cana- 

 dians, since the year 1835, among whom may be named the 

 late Mr. Adam Fergusson, Mr. Howitt, Mr. "Wade, the Millers, 

 near Toronto, Mr. Frederick "Wm. Stone, of Guelph, and Mr. 

 David Christie, of Brantford, in Canada West, and Mr. M. H. 

 Cochrane and others, in Lower Canada, have made sundry 

 importations of excellent cattle, and bred them with skiU and 

 spirit. Many cattle from these importations, and their descend- 

 ants, have been interchifflged between the United States and 

 Canada, and all may now be classed, without distinction, as 

 American Short-horns. 



