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and^ was bred in Ohio, by Mr. Jacob Beidler, of Willoughby, a member, of our 

 State Board of Agriculture and long a Guernsey breeder of prominence. 



Ayrshire cattle are also becoming better known in Ohio, and Mr. John 

 Sherwin of Willoughby has a large and choice herd, headed by Bargenoch 

 Bonnie Scotland, for which he paid in 1910 the sum of $1,600, the top price in 

 America for an Ayrshire bull at that time. 



Red Polled are a general purpose breed, for both beef and milk. Ohio men 

 have long promoted this breed. Mr. J. McLain Smith of Dayton and Captain 

 V. T. Hills of Delaware were importers in the eighties, and did much to push 

 the breed to the front in America. Mr. Smith was long the Secretary of the 

 Red Polled Cattle Club, and Captain Hills did more than any other one man 

 to intelligently promote and test the breed. 'He brought out the famous May- 

 flower tribe, and his cow, Mayflower 2nd, in 1901 at the Pan American Exposi- 

 tion held second, place among fifty animals representing ten different breeds. 

 His sales at Chicago received the highest prices paid for cattle of this breed. 



Our cattle interests are of great magnitude among the states, Ohio occupy- 

 ing ninth place in value, our combined beef and dairy cattle by the last census 

 being valued at $51,370,000. 



Ohio horses from early days have been in great demand in the East. 

 While farm horses had been taken East for many years, the first notable prog- 

 ressive horse movement in this State occurred in the middle of the nineteenth 

 century, when some of our enterprising horsemen visited France and made im- 

 portations of French horses. Along at this time, Horse Importing Companies 

 organized in Ohio, and a movement set in to bring better horses to the State 

 than we then had. The introduction of the two Percherons, Louis Napoleon, 

 to Champaign County, and Pleasant Valley Bill to Pickaway County, about 

 1851, was really a notable historic affair, for these became great early day sires, 

 and largely affected the character of the horse stock of this country. Since 

 these days, great numbers of draft horses have been brought to Ohio from 

 Europe, and more especially France. The Percheroru is essentially the favorite 

 draft breed in Ohio, and many of the best specimens imported to America have 

 been brought here by Ohio importers. For many years the McLaughlin Brothers 

 of Columbus, have been importing the best stallions purchasable in France, and 

 among the horses they have brought to America have been some of the best 

 show animals and sellers in the American market. This firm has probably dis- 

 tribute more high class stallions, and sold more horses at high prices than any 

 other American firm of equal .age in the business. Among the noted horses they 

 have imported and sold are Orangiste, sold for $5,500, Fronton, sold for $6,500, 

 Pour-Quoi-Pas, sold for $7,000, and Rosemberg, sold for $8,000. In their recent 

 importations they have brought over three great show stallions, Etudiant, a famous 

 French winner, Intime, first prize in a competition of 177 two year old stallions 

 at the 1910 International Exposition, and Hantbois, first prize aged stallion at the 

 1911 International. Messrs. Bell Bros., of Wooster, Col. G. W. Crawford of 

 Newark, Forney Bros, of Plainfield, and Mr. D. J. Grindell of Kenton, have for 

 years been also engaged in importing draft horses. As a result of these various 

 importations, and cur home breeders, Ohio has many high class draft horses 

 scattered over the State. Not only this, but Ohio draft geldings and mares have 

 become famous in the large eastern cities, due to the shipments made by dealers 

 in certain sections of the State. Large numbers of thin heavy horses are pur- 

 chased in states to the West of us, and are brought into different sections of 

 the State and fed by farmers making a specialty of this business, being later 

 shipped East. Horse feeding is a special industry in Wayne, Holmes, Delaware 

 and other counties of the State. It is said that about 3,000 horses were fed and 



