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The late T. L. Miller made the claim that inasmuch 

 as the great old-time Shorthorn bullock-breeding 

 herd of John D. Gillett, Elkhart, 111., father of the 

 export trade in live cattle, was founded upon the 

 blood of these " seventeen " and ' i woods " cattle, 

 the Herefords really shared in the making of those 

 wonderful animals with which Mr. Gillett at one 

 time astonished the country. This relationship, 

 however, was too remote to be of practical effect as 

 late as the ' ' seventies ' ' when the argument was ad- 

 vanced. The great and lucrative business of mak- 

 ing beef in Ohio and Kentucky and driving it on 

 the hoof across the mountains to seaboard markets 

 was based very largely upon the Shorthorn blood, 

 and yet it is* a fact that some of the herds which con- 

 tributed to the upbuilding of that business had re- 

 ceived Hereford and Longhorn crosses. However, 

 that subject at the present time is one of sentimental 

 rather than of practical interest. 



A Hereford Owned by Lewis Sajiders. Unusual 

 interest attaches to the somewhat crude picture of 

 the cow Jessica presented herewith. This is the 

 only illustration we have ever seen of any of the 

 direct descendants of the Henry Clay importation 

 into Kentucky. Our plate is a reproduction of a 

 lithograph made a great many years ago by T. 

 Campbell of Ghent, Ky., who copied it from a paint- 

 ing by Troye. This cow was owned for a time by 

 Col. Lewis Sanders, and the fact that an animal of 

 such distinctively Hereford character was in his 

 possession, illustrates the tendency in the early days 



