This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...there was such a mixture and commingling of all sorts, from the common scrubs to the full-blood Patton, as to render them utterly indescribable. Such was the stock in existence in Ohio in 1834, when the ShortCattle horns from England were introduced. The untin stock brought into the state by this imporOhio tation was of the very best that England had. The Ohio company had greatly the advantage over all subsequent companies in more than one respect, the principal of which was, at that time, the beginning of the American demand for Shorthorns. The agents had the choice of very nearly all the cattle to be found, and the best English breeders seemed desirous to encourage the thing--as they naturally would for their own prospective interest--and one of them at least declared1 he would not sell to an Englishman the cattle he sold to the agents. We learn from this importation that the showiest bulls brought the best price when sold, but some lacked pedigrees and in the end were not nearly so good as some less valued with good pedigrees, and which transmitted their good qualities to their get. Devon cattle had many enthusiastic friends in other states before their introduction into Ohio. But a short time after the improved Shorthorns had been brought into the state, an occasional Devon found 1Farmer,s Chronicle, 1868, page 214. its way in. The first pure-bred Devon Cattle cattle that we have any record of being wan/in" brought into the state was in 1842, when Ohio John (Ossawatomie) Brown imported from England some pure-bred Devonshire cattle.1 A few years late C. A. Ely, Esq., of Elyria, purchased seven Devon cows, eight calves and a bull of C. H. Crippen of Michigan. All of these were pure-bred, and the bull, " Duke of Devon," an imported animal from En...