Excerpt from American Short-Horn Importations: Containing the Pedigrees of All Short-Horn Cattle Hitherto Imported Into America The arrangement that has been adopted will be readily under stood at a glance. A chronological arrangement would have been, in many aspects, exceedingly valuable; but, on the Whole, the alphabetical Scheme seemed most likely to be useful. In the body of the book the importers are arranged in alphabetical order, while the index gives an alphabetical list of the animals themselves, with such information concerning them as seemed most needed. It is hoped that by this scheme the matter is presented in the handiest possible shape for actual use. Such animals as seemed, on good evidence, to have been imported, but the history of the importation of which it has been found impossible to obtain, have been classed by themselves at the end of the volume. After them will be found a similar list of such as purport to have been 'imported, but apparently were not. Some of these pedigrees may have arisen in error, others in fraud; none of them, in the present state of the evidence, can be accepted as true. Their descendants at this late day are, no doubt, Short - horns; but they cannot be accepted as Short-horns descending from imported ancestry. It would be impracticable to return thanks by name to all who have given me substantial aid in compiling this volume. I must ask the numerous gentlemen who have responded so kindly and promptly to the many questions, and sometimes rather unreasonable demands I have made of them, to permit me to cheaply discharge my debt to them by this general mention. The time may come when I may be able to return their courtesy by a like readiness to give them aid; and I trust I may be enabled then to yield it as readily and as ungrudgingly as they have done to me. Meanwhile, I may be per mitted to dedicate this book to them, in company With all lovers of Short-horn history and all friends of the Short-horn race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.