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extending well forward. The rump is smooth, but broad, and without 
patchiness — that is, great lumps of fat standing out like blubber. Tho 
hips arc broad and well covered with flesh and fat ; and the loins, and 
indeed tho whole top, exceptionally good. In fact, she is an animal 
carrying beef all over, where flesh may be laid on, and full of fat inside. 
She is a grand representative of the breed, and one that may be fattened 
to a great weight. 
Short-Horns in America. 
Mr. Allen, tho editor of the American Short-Horn Herd Book on 
American cattle, from a very exhaustive research of importations in 
relation to the introduction of this most valuable breed into the United 
States, says: v 1;' 
Soon after the termination of tho Revolutionary war with England, a 
few cattle supposed to be pure Short Horns, were brought into Virginia 
by a Mr. Miller. These were said to bo well fleshed animals, and tho 
cows remarkable for milk, giving as high as thirty-two quarts in a day. 
Some of the produce of these cattle, as early as 171)7, were taken into 
Kentucky by a Mr. Patton, where, as little was known of “breeds,” 
they were called, after the gentleman who brought them, the “Patton 
stock.” They were well cared for, and made a decided improvement in 
tho cattle of the “blue grass country,” where they were first introduced. 
Some of this early Virginia stock also went out to the “south branch of 
the Potomac,” in that State, a lino grazing country, which, fifty years 
ago, was famous for its good cattle. In the year 1796, it is said that, an 
Englishman, named Heaton, brought two or three Short Horn cattle from 
the north of England to New York. They were taken to Westchester 
county, near by, and bred, but no results, in jmre blood, have been 
traced to them. 
In 1815-16, a Mr. Cox, an Englishman, imported a bull and two 
heifers into Rcnsscrjcr county, New York. These were followed in 1822 
by two bulls, imported by another Englishman named Ilaync. Descend- 
ants from this Cox stock were said to be bred pure, and afterwards 
crossed by Mr. Hayne’s bulls. Tho stock now exists in considerable 
numbers and of good quality, in that and adjoining counties. 
In 1817 Col. Lewis Sanders, of Lexington, Kentucky, made an 
importation of three bulls and three heifers from England. They were 
of good quality and blood, and laid the foundation of many excellent 
herds in that State. In 1818. Mr. Cornelius Cooledge, of Boston, 
Massachusetts, imported a yearling heifer, — “Flora” — and a bull — 
“Cicero” — into that city, from tho herd of Mr. Mason, of Chilton, ia 
