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that fairly saved a breed, suffering from all the evils of 

 over-indulgence in favorite bloods. 



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I stood one day at the spot where the luxuriant Ken- 

 tucky blue-grass runs riot about the grave of Abram 

 Renick, and here again a past that was brimming with 

 brilliant pictures was recalled the story of the Short-horn 

 in the Ohio Valley States. 



First we see the beautiful woodland pastures of Southern 

 Central Ohio and Central Kentucky filled with great wide- 

 backed bullocks, red, red-and-white, white, and roan, con- 

 verting corn and grass into prime beef for seaboard mar- 

 kets. They are driven by hundreds on foot through the 

 winding defiles of the Alleghanies to Baltimore, Philadel- 

 phia or New York, and well filled wallets are brought back 

 to found the fortunes of leading Ohio Valley families. 

 These big, thrifty, profitable cattle were the Pattons and 

 the "Seventeens" the descendants of which for half a 

 century held their own against the more fashionably-bred 

 herd-book stock produced by the later importations. They 

 were in all human probability as grand specimens of the 

 breed as this country has ever known. 



Next we note the monumental missionary work of Walter 

 Dun, Col. Powel, the Ohio and Kentucky Importing Com- 

 panies and of that greatest of all patrons of American 

 agriculture, Robert Aitcheson Alexander. Red Rose, Caro- 

 line and Daisy; Rose of Sharon, Young Mary, Young 

 Phyllis; Josephine, Illustrious, Harriet, Gem, Lady Eliza- 

 beth, Goodness, Mazurka and Constance; the Louans, the 

 Loudon Duchesses, the Brides and the Dukes and Duch- 

 esses of Airdrie! Britain has a great galaxy of names upon 

 the Short-horn registry of fame, but America points with 

 pride to the fact that the Duns, the ReniCks, the Warfields, 

 the Bedfords, the Vanmeters, the Duncans, the Alexanders 

 and their contemporaries, East and West, have had few 

 superiors on the other side of the Atlantic as actual pro- 

 ducers of high-class cattle. And how lavishly the Ohio 

 Valley States dealt out their treasures to the newer West! 

 With Sweepstakes and Minister and General Grant, Pick- 



