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driving fat cattle from the Scioto to Baltimore, 

 and although his Virginia friends scouted the 

 plan as impracticable, he nevertheless put it to 

 the test, and in 1805 successfully drove sixty- 

 eight head through in good condition and dis- 

 posed of them at a round profit. The problem 

 of a market was solved, and the industry de- 

 veloped with amazing rapidity. In 1817 Felix 

 Renick drove 100 head of prime fat Short-horn 

 steers through to Philadelphia, receiving for 

 them in that market $134 per head! In 1818 

 George Renick sent a drove through to New 

 York the first Western cattle ever seen there 

 that sold for $69 per head.* These cattle 

 were descended from the Gough & Miller stock, 

 the roan bull Pluto 825 being one of the sources 

 from whence that blood was derived. Felix 

 Renick became the leading feeder of "top" 

 cattle in his State, and aside from the Messrs. 

 Goff of Kentucky was probably the most ex- 

 tensive breeder and feeder of well-bred bul- 

 locks in the United States in his day. George 

 Renick also fed largely for nearly fifty years. 



Other successful Ohio breeders and feeders of 

 the early days were Gov. Allen Trimble, John 

 I. Van Meter, James Vanse, John Grouse, Wil- 

 liam, Jonathan and Thomas Renick, Messrs. 

 Huston, M. L. Sullivant and R. R. Seymour. 

 The latter fed from 100 to 700 head annually, 



Related by the late William Renick of Circteville, O. 



