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and Gapt. BROWN afterwards became a successful 

 breeder of these as well as of high-bred horses of 

 the roadster type. 



In accordance with the practice established by 

 various companies of similar character in Ohio and 

 Kentucky, the imported animals were sold at auction 

 soon after their arrival, and the success of the sale 

 was largely due to the vigor and confidence with 

 which values were supported by Gapt. BROWN. He 

 realized that at this crucial period in the introduction 

 of the breed into the prairie states those who were 

 most actively espousing the cause of live-stock im- 

 provement as a means to a prosperous agriculture 

 must show their own faith by their works. He knew 

 the advertising value of good prices. He knew that 

 LEWIS SANDERS had ordered out the great importation 

 of 1817 by reading an account in an English paper 

 of the sale of CHARLES GOLLINGS' famous bull Comet 

 for one thousand guineas, his reasoning being that 

 if such a public valuation were possible, it indicated 

 a degree of merit in the breed that rendered such 

 animals an essential element in the proper advance- 

 ment of American farming. And so we find Gapt. 

 BROWN, at the great sale of the Illinois Importing 

 Company of 1857, taking out the choicest animal 

 of the entire offering, the two -year- old heifer 



