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been purchased by A. G. Howland, Otisville, the 

 same year he was imported. He made several 

 seasons at the Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, but 

 like John Sheridan died in 1877. Most of the stal- 

 lions imported by Euss, McCourtey & Slattery, 

 Onarga, and Westfall, Moore & Eexroat, Macomb, 

 seem to have done yeoman service in the improve- 

 ment of the native Illinois stocks, proving in the 

 main long-lived, prolific, and impressive. One of 

 the stallions imported by Westfall, Moore & Eex- 

 roat was sold to A. V. Brookings, Macomb, 111., 

 marking the beginning of a connection that persisted 

 prominently in that portion of the state for a great 

 many years. 



First of the Blood in Wisconsin. — Whether to 

 Simon Eublee or to H. B. Sherman, both now mem- 

 bers of the great silent majority, belongs the credit 

 of having taken the first imported stallion into Wis- 

 consin the records are not altogether clear. It is the 

 tradition that Mr. Sherman bought a stallion in Ohio 

 of 1870 importation, but finding him wanting in some 

 essential particular later obtained another in ex- 

 change for him — ^Pride of Perche 380. But it is cer- 

 tain that Mr. Eublee bought Mahomet 291, imported 

 in 1870, from the Dillons. He was one of their first 

 lot of four head. In just which year the first im- 

 ported horse was taken into the Badger state the 

 records do not make clear, but the honor of blazing 

 the trail in that commonwealth belongs to one or 

 the other of these two men. 



Dillons' Big St. Laurent. — With the importation 



