........The artist, with unwearied perseverance and skill, has pencilled them with an accuracy which will be readily recognized by thoses acquainted with the origionals, from which they are taken. We trust they may satisfy the fortunate owners of the origionals, as they do the Editor, in the fidelity of their execution. Such portraits are not olny valuable as perpetuating the features of the animals they represent, but they advertise to the world their own excellence, as well as the spirit of the breeders who thus perpetuated such choice productions of their skill, as models of imitation to the younger breeders of the country.

Lewis F. Allen, American Short-Horn, 1871