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be tested by the amount of food he has consumed, in proportion 

 to his dead weight at the shambles. 



THE LONG-HORNS IN AMERICA. 



On this item, our record must be short. Among the early 

 importations of English cattle in the Northern States, and pos- 

 sibly in the Middle, and Southern, that some long-horns came 

 also there can be no doubt, for we well recollect, in our boyhood, 

 cattle which had some of their distinctive marks, too obvious to 

 be mistaken, as inherited from that race. The first definitely 

 known introduction of them, was by a Mr. Smith, a merchant, 

 we believe, of Lexington, Ky., who brought out a bull and cow, 

 and took to that town about, or in, the year 1817. They were 

 there bred, but whether together, or with other cattle, we have 

 no direct information. At all events, they were soon merged in 

 the "Patton" stock, and the "Short-horns of Col. Sanders' 

 importation of 1817." The blood of those cattle still exists in 

 a remote degree in some of the grade Kentucky herds, as we 

 have distinctly seen, not many years ago, in steers sent from 

 there to the New York cattle markets. The long-horns were 

 not received with much favor in Kentucky, as the merits of the 

 short-horns soon overshadowed them. 



When a youngster, just emerging into the gristle and bone of 

 manhood, during a temporary residence in northern Ohio, we 

 made a horseback journey, in the month of September, 1821, 

 down into the Scioto valley, as far as Oircleville, in the county 

 of Pickaway. In the valley, below Columbus, were " the Vir- 

 ginia military grants," in which numerous settlers from that State 

 and Pennsylvania had come at an early day for that country, 

 1790 to 1800 who took up large tracts of its rich lands, and 

 cleared and cultivated them into broad pastures and rich corn- 

 fields. A mile or two north of the town, on the Columbus road, 

 spying a dozen^or so of strange looking cattle, in a rich blue 



