190 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



ful responses to good keep. Their's was a veri- 

 table land of plenty a country teeming with 

 corn and blue grass. York and Durham were 

 fairly distanced in comparison, so far as unlim- 

 ited feed supplies were concerned. Hundreds 

 of prime Short-horn bullocks were matured and 

 driven across the mountains to the seaboard 

 markets. It was in the course of this trade 

 that the Ohio Valley drovers and graziers, liv- 

 ing remote from the great centers of popula- 

 tion, learned of the establishment of the Powel 

 herd, and in spite of the distance and obstacles 

 to be overcome they invested in fresh blood 

 from that source and introduced it upon their 

 "Pattons" and " Seventeens." When we con- 

 sider the length of the journey from Cincin- 

 nati to Philadelphia before the days of rail- 

 roads one can but admire the pluck and enter- 

 prise displayed by the sturdy pioneers engaged 

 in this trans- Allegheny cattle traffic. Those 

 who had been fortunate enough in the first 

 rush of the tide of emigration to secure large 

 holdings in Kentucky and Ohio found that 

 Short-horn blood enabled them to reap a rich 

 harvest from their grain and pasture lands. 

 Never has there been a more complete demon- 

 stration of the value of good blood in farming 

 operations than was afforded by the history of 

 the introduction of the Short-horn into the 

 Ohio Valley States. To them the hoof of the 



