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and in 1841 drove 840 head through to Phila- 

 delphia.* The Shakers of Warren County also 

 gave their attention to the improvement of 

 their cattle by the use of the Patton and " Sev- 

 enteen " blood. Cattle-feeding was thoroughly 

 established as a profitable industry by the time 

 the Walter Dun importations were made, and 

 the rivalry that developed between the breed- 

 ers and feeders on either side of the Ohio River 

 was like unto that which existed in Britain 

 "twixt North o' Tweed and South o' Tweed." 

 The owners of the Dun cattle were loud in 

 their claims as to the superiority of their stock 

 over the other Short-horns of that period. The 

 bull Comet was their trump card and was hav- 

 ing quite his own way at the cattle shows.f 

 Kentucky was for the time being "on top." 

 Men of similar blood and with equal pride in 

 their herds dwelt across the river, however, and 

 they did not propose to permit their friends, 

 relatives and competitors in Fayette, Bourbon, 

 Clark and adjacent (Kentucky) counties to hold 

 the whip hand. They had the land, the feed, 

 the brains and the capital to defend their own 



* Mr. Seymour removed from Virginia to Ohio in 1830. He says that when 

 he left Virginia all the principal cattlemen in the South Branch Valley had 

 stock of the English blood, either of the Gough & Miller importations or 

 the Long-horns, and in some instances they had a mixture of those breeds ; 

 as was also the case to some extent in Kentucky and Ohio. This accounts 

 for the fact that about fifty years ago it was not uncommon to hear people 

 speak of " Long-horn Durhams." This mixture, however, proved very gen- 

 erally unpopular. 



t William Warfield, in Breeder's Gazette, Aug. 6, 1886. 

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