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ington 9284 and Dick Taylor 2d 16637 both by 

 Dick Taylor 5508 and both bred by Messrs. Sud- 

 duth of Clark County were of Vanmeter stock, 

 the former being of the Leslie branch and the 

 latter coming through Judith Clark, own sister 

 to Hannah More. Dick Taylor 2d won a cham- 

 pionship at a Bourbon County fair in a ring of 

 thirty entries. We may also add here that the 

 bull Seaton 4356, bred by Solomon Vanmeter, 

 appearing in certain pedigrees of cattle of Ken- 

 tucky origin, represented a cross of Mr. Alex- 

 ander's imp. Orontes 2d upon a daughter of the 

 imported Wilkinson-bred cow Lavender 3d, 

 that was of the same foundation as the Cruick- 

 shank Lavenders. 



The Warfields. The city of Lexington, the 

 blue-grass capital, is situated in the fertile 

 county of Fayette, which, in connection with 

 the adjacent counties of Clark and Bourbon, 

 had from the earliest periods constituted the 

 headquarters of the breed south of the Ohio 

 River. The name of Warfield is so intimately 

 and honorably identified with the cattle-breed- 

 ing interest, not only of Fayette and contiguous 

 counties but of the entire West, that no his- 

 tory of Short-horns in America would be com- 

 plete without some reference to the services 

 rendered by those of this name. 



The Warfields are descended from Richard 

 Warfield, who in 1663 settled in the Puritan 



