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teen") cow Cleopatra, by Accommodation 

 (2907), brought $1,230, and her daughter Ellen, 

 by the great Powel bull Oliver (2387), $1,235- 

 the latter bought by Dillard & Ferguson. The 

 bull Oliver Keene, only five months old, fetched 

 $1,000 from William P. Hume. At same sale 

 Dillard & Ferguson got imp. Adelaide at $1,375, 

 and imp. Beauty of Wharfdale went for $755. 

 For imp. Mary Ann and calf Richard Jackson 

 and B. P. Grey paid $2,100. Evidently the 

 home-bred stock was as good as the imported. 

 This fact is also proved by the show-yard rec- 

 ords of that period.* It is apparent from the 

 ratings in these competitions that the "Seven- 

 teens" were of good form and character, and 

 that the Kentucky breeders had kept pace up 

 to the time of the Ohio Co.'s operations \vith 

 the work of their brother-breeders in Britain. 



* At the fair at Lexington, September, 1834, the judges H. Clay, James 

 Renick, Jacob Hughes, Isaac Vanmeter and W. P. Hume certainly very 

 competent men assigned the prizes as follows : Aged bulls "Seventeens" 

 both first and second; two-year-olds "Seventeens" both first and second; 

 yearlings "Seventeens" both first and second; bull calves first to a "Sev- 

 enteen," second to a Patton. Aged cows first to imp. Caroline (by Dash- 

 wood), second to a Powel cow; two-year-olds "Seventeens" both first and 

 second; yearlings "Seventeens" both first and second; calves "Seven- 

 teens" first, Dun importation second. In 1835 about the same result was 

 recorded. The old stock won seven first prizes and six second prizes, the 

 newly-imported stock one first prize and two seconds. Coming down to 

 1839, at the Lexington Fair that year the first-prize aged bull came from the 

 Smith and Dun importation; two-year-old, from the Ohio Co.'s; yearling, 

 from Dun's; calf, Ohio Co.'s; two-year-old heifer, Ohio Co.'s; yearling, 

 "Seventeen"; cow calf, "Seventeen." In 1840: Aged bull, Powel; two- 

 year-old, Ohio Co.; yearling, Ohio Co.; calf, "Seventeen"; aged cow, "Sev- 

 enteen"; two-year-old, "Seventeen"; yearling, "Seventeen"; calf, "Sev- 

 enteen." In 1841: Aged bull (late importation), Letton's; two-year-old, 

 Letton's; yearlings, H. Clay'; aged cows, "Seventeen"; two-year-old, Ohio 

 Co.; yearling, Letton's: calf, Ohio Co. 



