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the Western States through the enterprise of 

 Messrs. A. H. & I. B. Day, who purchased and 

 bred some of the best cattle ever owned in the 

 State of Iowa, and exhibited them with suc- 

 cess in competition with th.e leading herds of 

 the time. 



Contemporary with the elder Day, Mr. H. G. 

 Stuart of Lee County founded a herd and bred 

 Short-horns in considerable numbers, descended 

 mainly from cows of Kentucky breeding, a ma- 

 jority of them belonging to the "Seventeen" 

 and Rose, by Skipton, families. One of his 

 earliest bulls appears to have been the light 

 roan Tom Claggett 2299, bred in Bourbon Co., 

 Ky., by Peter Hedges. About this same date 

 1854 an organization known as the Ohio 

 Stock-Breeding Co. operated quite largely in 

 Ohio-bred Short-horns in Butler County, mak- 

 ing their purchases mainly from the herds of 

 Messrs. Dun, Harrold, Jacob Pierce and their 

 contemporaries. They seem to have pushed 

 their business with some vigor; at any rate 

 they were enterprising enough to have pre- 

 pared and inserted in Vol. Ill of the herd book, 

 published in 1857, an illustration of their big 

 red -and -white Caroline, by Dash wood, cow 

 Quince, of James Dun's breeding. In this 

 same volume of the herd book Peter Melendy 

 of Butler County first appears as the owner of 

 the Ohio-bred light-roan " Seventeen" cow Ar- 



