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when his exhibits failed to evoke admiration and gain 

 judicial recognition. To undertake to set forth the 

 names and breeding of the Grove Park showyard 

 celebrities would be to place an unwarranted tax 

 upon your time and patience. One needs but to 

 mention the names of Grace Young, Illustrious and 

 Tycoon to conjure in the minds of the old-time 

 fair-goers almost all that heart could wish in the 

 line of bovine beauty and perfection. From 1856 

 to 1867 inclusive, for eleven years in succession, 

 the grand herd prize at the Illinois State Fair was 

 won by Gapt. BROWN'S cattle. At one of the great 

 St. Louis fairs, after ROBERT A. ALEXANDER'S imported 

 Duke of Airdrie had won a special one-thousand- 

 dollar prize, the regular championship of the show 

 was awarded to Gapt. BROWN'S imported King Alfred. 

 No man can calculate the money value to Illinois 

 and other western states of the example set by 

 JAMES N. BROWN as a farmer and cattle-breeder. 

 He not only won fame for his fine cattle, but as 

 early as 1856 Grove Park was awarded the prize 

 offered by the Illinois State Board of Agriculture 

 for the best arranged and most economically con- 

 ducted grazing farm in the state. He was a great 

 lover of trees, and his black locust groves and lines 

 of black walnut called forth the admiration of all 



