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"red, white and roan" was indeed golden, and 

 to this day no other type of cattle has found 

 equal favor among those enjoying the fruits of 

 the Short-horn's peaceful invasion of the an- 

 cestral acres. 



Feeding for seaboard markets. Virginians 

 from the valley of the South Branch of the 

 Potomac were the most influential of the pio- 

 neers who settled in Southern Central Ohio and 

 Kentucky early in the nineteenth century. 

 They had been accustomed to breeding cattle 

 for grazing and feeding purposes and originated 

 the system of fattening steers in large num- 

 bers by feeding "shock" corn in the open fields 

 during the winter months. Among the earliest 

 of these emigrants were the brothers George 

 and Felix Renick, from Hardy Co., Va., who 

 found their way over the mountains on horse- 

 back, with the aid of a compass,* arid selected 

 large tracts of land in the valley of the Scioto 

 River, near the present site of Chillicothe, 0. 

 Other members of the Renick family followed 

 them, but George and Felix by their enterprise 

 in cattle-growing gained the right to recogni- 

 tion as the most distinguished of those who 

 laid the foundation for Short-horn breeding in 

 the State of their adoption. 



George Renick first conceived the idea of 



*Hon. T. C. Jones' address before the Iowa Short-horn Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation in 1884. 



