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the big old-fashioned steers. And when the 

 "Rocket" the primal locomotive that stands at 

 Darlington, the ancient Shorthorn capital and its 

 successors came along, then little vans were 

 requisitioned, and the fat stock sent away by rail, 

 maybe as far as London. So in our own country. 

 The business of cattle-feeding, originating in the 

 south branch of the Potomac, drifted over the Blue 

 Ridge into the Ohio Valley, and the men who first 

 used corn and blue grass on an extensive scale in 

 the making of beef as a commercial proposition 

 drove their herds over the mountains to find a mar- 

 ket in the seaboard cities. Then came the settling 

 of the cornbelt proper, the first lard hog, the pure- 

 bred bull and steel highways. Then, too, arrived 

 men of keen commercial instincts at the future 

 hubs of western lake and rail transportation men 

 like JAMES J. HILL, PHILIP D. ARMOUR, GUSTAVUS F. 

 SWIFT and NELSON MORRIS. Corn and wheat without 

 hogs, cattle and quick transportation had, in the 

 early days, but little value. Beef and lard on the 

 hoof in large quantities without a market, or means 

 of getting to market, were a waste. A place where 

 buyer and seller could be brought together was a 

 prime necessity. Hence the stock yards; hence 

 the packing houses; hence the "granger" railways; 



