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esting news matter of the period an account of a 

 fair held a short time previous that the young man 

 was awarded first prize for his two-year-old Short- 

 horn heifer Helen Eyre, in competition with some of 

 the most eminent cattle breeders of the day. He 

 had obtained his first Shorthorns from his uncle, 

 Gapt. WARFIELD, and surely he could not have made 

 a better beginning, for the names of BENJAMIN, 

 ELISHA and WILLIAM WARFIELD will be forever famous 

 in the annals of Kentucky agriculture. He had 

 seen enough of the broad-backed, deep-ribbed, thick- 

 fleshed and heavy-milking cows in the woodland 

 pastures of his native state to realize that stock of 

 that description would necessarily prove a valuable 

 asset in the subduing of the prairies of the west, 

 and he determined to advance the flag that had 

 already been successfully carried from Virginia to 

 Kentucky still farther into the interior; and so the 

 "red, white and roan" came by his hand into the 

 land called Illinois. 



Whatever may have been the achievements of 

 Gapt. BROWN in his other relations of life, the most 

 enduring basis of his fame in the records of his 

 adopted state will be found to rest upon the fact 

 that he was the first to recognize the fact that the 

 best way to get the most profit out of good grass 



