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Nonpareil, (925) calved 1843—bred by Mr Halse of Holland, England—imported by IV. P. C. S. Wain- 
wright, and now owned by Capt. Joseph Hilton, New-Scotland, Albany county, N. Y. She gained the first 
prize as a, heifer a,t Barnstaple, in 1846, and the first at the New-Vork State Show in 1851. Sire, Prince Al¬ 
bert, (102;) grand'ire, Hundred Guinea, (56;) dam bred by Mr. Halse. 
Editorial Correspondence—XIII. 
Mr. Corwin’s Herd of Slrort-Iloriis. 
I spent a day in June with R G. Corwin, Esq, at 
his place in Lebanon, Ohio. At an early period his 
father, Ichabod Corwin, devoted considerable attention 
to improved stock, continuing to do so for many years ; 
and Mr. C. himself has been engaged as an importer 
and breeder now for a considerable length of time. In 
connection with the neighboring family of Shakers, he 
was concerned in an importation of 16 head of Short- 
Horns in 1854, and his herd, as well as that of his 
neighbors, under the supervision mainly of Ithamar 
Johnson, is well worth a visit. 
There is in the herd some blood from the importa¬ 
tions of 1836; indeed some of the best females are 
thus descended. Recent importations have been made 
mainly from the herd of a Scotch breeder of high dis¬ 
tinction in Great Britain, Mr. Douglass of Athelstane- 
ford. Mr. Corwin has in all 44 head. Among those 
that we saw were Blue Belle, an imported cow 6 3 *ears 
old, bred by Mr. Douglass She was shown in 1853 at 
Kilkenny, Ireland, against “ Rose of Summer,” beat¬ 
ing her, while the next summer, when she was not 
there to compete, Rose of Summer carried off the first 
prize of the Royal Ag. Society, (1854 ) At least four 
other prizes of her taking abroad were alluded to ; in 
Ohio she has been equally fortunate, having, us I was 
told, received both the class prize and the sweepstakes 
at two Ohio State Shows in succession. Another very 
nice cow is “Erin Strawberry,” by the famous bull 
“New Year’s Day,” out of Strawberry, whose dam 
was the cow Strawberry imported in 1836 by the Ohio 
Importing Co., and bought by Gov. Trimble. In 1856 
this cow received the heifer-calf prizes at several ex¬ 
hibitions, and in 1857 received in Indiana not only 
class premiums, but also the sweepstakes in competition 
with aged animals. She was in very low condition ) 
having just returned from Indiana, and not had time 
to recover from the effects of rather a hard winter 
and the subsequent journey. Then came “ Lothiana 
Belle,” not quite as fine a handler, or as showy in ap¬ 
pearance, but larger in size, and having what would be 
called “more substance.” 
I also saw the cow “Strawberry,” now 16 years old, 
which has been a most useful and profitable animal, 
and is now drawing near the end of her career. Her 
offspring are all marked strongly by her merits, and 
have proved almost uniformly good. Several heifers 
descended from her that we stopped to look at. were 
beautiful examples of the breed. 
Two bulls which have attracted much attention 
wherever they have been shown, are the one already 
alluded to as the sire of Erin Strawberry, and “Cru¬ 
sader,” the latter owned by Mr. Corwin. He was 6 
years old in Juty, is white in color, and has taken the 
sweepstakes at more than one State Exhibition, while 
at the U. S. show last fall at Louisville, he was award- 
