Vol. I. Mew-York, September, 1842. Mo. 
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History aud Traditions of Short Horn Cattle. 
The great show at Hull being over, we ac¬ 
cepted the kind invitation of our excellent 
friend Mr. Bates, to pass a week with him 
at Kirkleavington ; and, on our way thither, 
made occasional detours in Yorkshire and 
Durham, stopping to visit the Roman an¬ 
tiquities at York, its old churches, and the 
glorious minster ; Studley Park, with its 
charming show grounds of lake and dell, and 
extensive monastic ruins, the solemn gran¬ 
deur and exquisite beauty of which neither 
pen or pencil can describe ; Ripon Cathedral 
and Newby Hall, and several other places ; 
and subsequently by ourselves, the large 
manufacturing cities of Leeds and Sheffield, 
and numerous towns and scenes that it 
would but fatigue our readers to mention. 
We traversed Durham and Yorkshire with 
unspeakable interest, for these counties are 
emphatically the home of the Short Horns. 
Here they originated, here they have flour¬ 
ished from time almost immemorial, and here 
they received those improvements that have 
carried them forward to such a pitch of ex¬ 
cellence as to ensure them a precedence 
throughout the most fertile regions of the 
world. Very large exportations have been 
going on from here to America for more 
than a quarter of a century. The British 
colonies in Australia and elsewhere for some 
time have been following our example, and a 
few of the European governments are just 
becoming alive to their marked superiority 
for milk and grazing in rich pastures, over 
every other breed of neat stock existing. 
Ten years ago we read the Rev. Mr. 
Berry’s pamphlet of the history of Short 
Horns with eager interest, but have ever re¬ 
gretted that it was not written out more fully 
and complete, for at this time the Messrs. 
Colling were living, and many others, who 
unhappily are now dead, that could have fur¬ 
nished particulars of the appearance, charac¬ 
teristics and breeding of the founders of the 
Herd Book, and their remote ancestors, 
which would have been of the greatest im¬ 
portance not only to the breeders of our day, 
but even to their posterity. How eagerly is 
every minute particular gathered up and de¬ 
tailed, again and again, of the appearance, 
the powers, the speed, the endurance, and. 
general traits of England’s early Arabians 
and their immediate blood descendants, and 
will less interest hereafter be attached to 
Short Horns 1 We think not, and as a few 
are yet living who have seen and known the 
first animals of the Herd Book, we hope that 
