JEWETT FARM 



address of Jewett Farm was Jewettvllle, N. Y. Al- 

 though Village Farm was a very close neighbor, C. J. 

 Hamlin's letters were addressed to East Aurora. 

 The rivalry was so sharp that one post office would 

 not meet the requirements of both establishments. 

 Mr. Jewett tried to avoid friction, but the clashing 

 grew with the passing years. It was in June, 1884, 

 that Mr. Jewett wrote me requesting a suppression 

 of the Bradburn challenge : 



" Somebody reported some stuff as coming from 

 our barn which was a lie. Bradburn, the Superin- 

 tendent of Hamlin's farm, got mad and then chal- 

 lenged. We don't do business that way, and don't 

 want any such unpleasantness. The end would be 

 bad feeling." 



It was not until the stud at Jewett Farm had been 

 disbanded that the relations between Mr. Jewett and 

 Mr. Hamlin became even half-way pleasant. It was 

 in September, 1886, that I received from Rochester, 

 N. Y., a letter from Randolph Huntington, who was 

 at the birth of Jewett Farm, containing these pathetic 

 words : 



" The ship is sinking, but the colors shall fly to 

 the last. Which is the hardest way to die I can't tell, 

 for I have thus far tried only the mental." 



The breeding business, like other business, has Its 

 little tragedies. 



315 



