Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-04-27
For the Herald
"FOURTEEN YOUNG BULLsl',
SGoOd Calves Oi the finest SeIec-
tiOn in the United Staies.1


I with the above heading, signed by
Anderson Dewitt, ! was anxious
: to be more thoroughly informed
concerning them, and made inqui-
Gbes to that effect in the Herald and
afterwards in the Register | am
truly sorry that Mr.. A. Dewitt
seems to regard those inquiries in
an unbind spirit / do claim some
degree of acquaintance with stock
raising, and d'cattle breeding in this
and other states; but am willing
to acknowledge the corn. l was
not posted as to the locality Of the
great Cattle Emporium of Fayette
County, until Mr. Dewitt claimed
it for his bluegrass farm. l was
equally Ignorant of the existance
of such breed of cattle os "Pure
Duchies, hreeJoarths Duchies
and hG!f blooded Duchies," so
prominently placed in his adver-
tisement. Never having heard of
such a breed before, l enquiled if
they were related to the celebrated
Duchess family so much admired
by breeders. He says II have
the identical cattle l claim to have"
hope those Duchies will be ex-
hibited at the next Fayette County
Fair; we will then see how they
compare with the Duchess breed.
In his advertisement, Mr.. Dewitt
says 81 took more premiums at the
Ohio State Fair than all the cattle
combined that we're from Fayette
County, o." and in his article in
the Herald Of April 9th inst, says
"And now to the premiums of
stock / owned and that was bred {
by me, at the Ohio State Fair, See
"a. H. b. No. 5997 of the War. !
field herd, also No. $3.50 Of the Clay
herd" After dillgent enquiry | q
find that Mr. Dewitt exhibited at
the State Ohio Fair at Springfield, !,
in 1870, one fat cow, one two. yeart a
old steer and Berkshire boar; that
being the total amount Of brood q
stock present from the great cattle n
emporium Of Fayette county, o., b
"a which he obtained the first pre-
MUM on-his steer and the second
on bis COW. We also find
that at the same fair, Mr.. H. Nor. :
ris, of Fayette county, obtained :
second premium for two year old -
steer, and Mr.. Jesse Heagler, of n
.he same County, obtained two pre- ID
niums-first premium for three
iear COW and second premium for q,
/ two-year old bull, (Henry Clay, y
No, $500, Of the Clay herd). This
asst animal, Mr.. Dewitt claims to
lave been bred by him and was
lis property at the time Of its ex- u
libition at the State Fair. was n
Informed that Mr., Heagler purchas.
d the animal when calf, in the n
all Of 1868, and named him Henry y
LAY, after the gentleman who bred
i'm, Are there two animals bearing
hat name and numberp or Is the
ecord of the A. H. b. at fault as ~
o the breeding Of that animalY .
Mr. Dewitt manifests credita
le ambition when he says, that If
eaten by his competitor at an ex. n
ibition, on the first, his motto is, "
to beat him on the next round, IL
ossible." That noble motto, |
oppose, was not adopted nt the
me, by the gentleman, when he FL
ithdrew before daylight from the -,
,ntest for the sweepstakes, on the ara u
ST day Of the jamestown Fair, in ness
1858. Mr. Dewitt's banter to Fay. TAX
te county and the State at large, or oRi
/ $l00 and $500 respectively, for y"
exhibition Of calves, is, to say on.
0 least, in rather bad taste, es ~
cially in the month Of July. !.
my of his fellow citizens, have =
doubt, have some conscientious mi
'uples about the propriety ofac- ~
lting such FAINTER, but would co"mI Sm,,I
lingly enter the rims with him at pegst
County or State Fairs, and Us IIsgf
zee not to back out at the sweep aemu aGu
lSes, But the object Of our ii niSSg'
ry from first to last, was to as. p,noI i,he;
tain in good faith tho character snthc
merits Of Mr., DeWitts stock FsES gnd
cattle, and hope the gentleman I9hg
favor us with the names and rom rP
8 Of the animals he selected lhS RnaI 81
N the herds Of the celebrated each r
elders he mentions, and which men1 tbe y
lie he claims to have ON hand that
tho gentleman, no doubt, Is 1SSS' the Stl
lre that there Is a vast difference OF sai'
ween selecting from a certaink $50,
4 Of cattle, and purchasing an
nal which had hcen honght by DH
ther person, but who, for rca. dar. ~ y, :.
5 sali factory to himself was esplrc
Ing to part with Il Cor, say $3.50 @stas ras P9
3l60 Did Mr. Dewitt make I'm The
seleclion personally, from those Gias ]
tleulnr herds mentioned by him ? sog' sa9 4, !,
10, whenY and what are The
nes Of each animal thus selected
N each particular herd 2 That ..l, The
anal,la ma In firm mora por rea,,e.