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comprehended to pave the way for subsequent 

 successes achieved; but this is another story pres- 

 ently to be related. 



The sale of Comet, and the reputation gained 

 through the exhibition throughout England of two 

 enormous fat beasts, both by Favorite, called "The 

 Durham Ox" and "The White Heifer that Traveled," 

 served to spread the name and fame of the GOLLINGS 

 and their "improved Shorthorns" throughout all 

 Britain, obscuring altogether for a time the name 

 and fame of BAKEWELL, and dooming the Longhorns 

 to a swift decline in popularity. Moreover, these 

 great doings did not escape the notice of a well- 

 read pioneer in the then newly-settled far-away 

 blue-grass region of Kentucky, resulting in 1816 in 

 an order for the first Shorthorn cattle ever imported 

 into the Middle West. And if there be people of 

 this day and generation who think that our own 

 forefathers lacked in enterprise, let LEWIS SANDERS 

 of Grass Hills tell the simple story of an act that 

 started the cornbelt of America on the highway 

 to success in cattle-feeding: 



"I was induced to send the order for the cattle 

 in the fall of 1816 from seeing an account of 

 CHARLES GOLLING'S great sale in 1810. At this sale 

 enormous prices were paid 1,000 guineas for the 



