OHIO IMPORTING COMPANY'S SALES. 183 



Bouncer, 13209, John Walke, Pickaway county, Ohio, $453 



Powhatan, 828^, Harness Renick, Pickaway county, Ohio 500 



Santa Anna (3^ months old, not recorded), C. Vance, Ohio Co., Va. 425 



Cows. 



Flora, by a son of Young Albion (15), M. L. Sullivant, Columbus, O. 1,300 



Matilda, by Imperial (2151), Allen Trimble, Highland county, Ohio, 1,220 

 Fidelia, by Comet Halley (1855), 7# months old, Allen Trimble, 



Highland county, Ohio, 610 



Elizabeth, by , and calf, J. & W. Vance, Champaign Co., O. 1,450 



Charlotte, by , Joseph G. White, Ross county, Ohio, 630 



Arabella, by Victory (5566), and calf, Arthur Watts, Ross county, O. 1,200 



Blush, by , J. H. James, Urbana, Ohio, 1,015 



Emily, by , Asahel Renick, Pickaway county, Ohio 875 



Victoress, by Norfolk (2377), M. L. Sullivant, Columbus, Ohio, 700 



Thus closed the sales of ihese memorable importations. The com- 

 pany reaped a large profit on their investment, and conferred a 

 lasting benefit on the neat stock interests of the country, as well as 

 awakened a spirit through various other States for forming associa- 

 tions of like character and results. 



At a period of thirty-five years, from the time of the Chillicothe 

 sales, the pedigrees of hundreds of the descendants of most of those 

 animals can be found recorded in the American Herd Book, while 

 others, through various causes, so far as public records are con- 

 cerned, have become almost, if not wholly, extinct. 



After the sales of the Ohio Company, importations multiplied 

 apace. Agricultural prices in products had been gradually strength- 

 ening for the few past years, and meats bore good rates in both our 

 home and foreign markets. Money had been unusually abundant for 

 two years past, owing to the rival and conflicting measures of political 

 parties in the general government, and a consequent false estimate of 

 the ability of the people to extend their credits and plunge into all 

 sorts of speculation. The farmers throughout the country felt rich, 

 and among other items of speculative value it is no wonder that the 

 noble race of Short-horn cattle became an attractive object with 

 portions of the agricultural community as well as many men of means 

 whose tastes sympathized in their pursuits. Thus importations of 

 them were sought, commissions were sent to England, and several 

 new purchasers went out to select and bring cattle here where prices 

 ruled high and sales were rapidly made, particularly in Kentucky 

 and Ohio. 



