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ggg" The To lid wing letter is from C. F.
Clarkson, editor of the Brookville American,
who has recently returned from a visit to the
east. The letter is from New York, June 22,
arid of course was written before the opening of
the exhibition of the World's Fair:
CATTLE AT THE FAIR.
A portion of the great Fair—and We are disposed to think, the most interesting portion, is,
and has been for some weeks exhibiting. We
irefer to the superior stock of fat and blooded
cattle. In the tents and stalls around the palace is now to be seen the best selection of cattle ever congregated in the United States. To
save ourselves from errors, and also trouble—as
well as from exposing our ignorance of the real
merits and fine qualities of cattle, we adopt the
opinions and descriptions of others:—Iii a tent
on the north side of the Palace there are eight
Oxen, one cow, two heifers, and three sheep.
The first, which will meet your eye as you
enter, is a brown and white 5 year old Durham
and Devon spayed heifer, fatted by Wm. Worrell, Poughkeepsic, N. Y., which is the largest,
fattest, handsomest, most symmetrical, well
formed fat heifer you ever saw. She is appropriately named Jenny Lind, not Oii account of
her musical talents, but weight and,beauty of
character. By her side stands De Witt Clini
ton, a noble name, given to a noble animal.-—
He was fed by the same man, is 5 years old, red
roan in color, of same blood as thc first, not so
fdt, but very handsome. Next is a pure blood I
short horn Durham heifer, 4 years old; as white
as milk, and soft as velvet to the touch, out of
the imported stock of Henry Clay, bred upon
the Ashland farms, where she was named the
Pride of Kentucky. For a fat heifer of this
stock, she is a model animal, well worthy careful study.       .
Directly behind her stands Victoria thc Fifth,
hot Queen of England, but   of   pure  English
short-horn Durham blood, and well   worthy to
be called tho queen of cows, being the mother
of jhose celebrated Ohio  bulls,  Sir   William,
Prince William, and Young  Prince, and long
the queen of the fine herd owned by Wm. Neff,
of Cincinnati, who refuses $2,500 for her youngest calf, as yet unnamed, past two   years  old,
which is now on   Mr.   NefTs  Yellow  Springs
farm, unless he has lately been removed to that
of his son in Illinois.    Victoria is now at least
15 years  old,  having  been  imported by  Dr.
Watts, of Ross County, when a calf, and hav- j
ing ceased to breed, lias been fatted to that de-i
grec as to become mishapen, yet showing oxceJ-;
lent points of a high-bred   animal.     This covvi
is nearly white on the body, with red roan neck j
and logs, and notwithstanding her ago and fat-'
lively
her
ness; eats as hearty  and  is  as
young friend from Kentucky.
Next to Victoria stands a pair of Twin Oxen,
out of the joint stocks of Henry Clay and Dr.
Watts, 7 years old, three-fourth Durham and one
fourth comrriort blood; color roan, with white
line back, very large and handsome, not excessively fat, yet enough so to show what high
feeding of a pair of work oxen for a year or two
will accomplish, when they have the right kind
of blood to begin with.
Next to these beautiful twins' stands a pure
red ox, a half and half Durharii and Devon,
who is a good typo of the latter breed.
This ox is named Ohio, is 7 years old and
was, raised by Wm. Osborh, near Springfield,
in that State.
Next to him stands Tom Corwin, a worthy
representative of the man and his Buckeye
home—great, stroftg, solid, pdwerful, good and
usefdl, without being very particularly handsome as some of his moris refined neighbors.—
Yet Tom need not be ashamed of his blood, if
it is dark colored, for it is made up of the Pat-
ton importation of 1817, mixed with the more
recently improved Durham. His color is roan,
with red ahd white spots; lias ugly big horns,
rather coarse hair, not very fine limbs, but they
carry a load of fat beef.
The last of the list, numbered 10 and 11 on
the catalogue, are two pure Durham oxen raised
by Dr. Watts out of his imported stock, and
fatted by James Gilchrist, of Pickaway Co., O.,
who also fatted most of the others. They are
now 6 years old, have been fed 2J- years, previous to which they were broken to work.—
Though not twirls, they are enough alike to pass
for such, and are now excessively fat, without
being miss-hapen.
Opposite the south gate of the Palace there
is another show for a sight of which the shilling
charged might be worse spent in many of the
adjoining places. This show consists of a pair
of oxen which the owner of them says are estimated to weigh 0,000 pounds; but as no bullock has ever yet trod American soil which
weighed 4,000 pounds, unless one of these do,
we shall not believe either of them will, until wo
see him on the scales. Wo do believe, however, that whenever an ox can be produced of
that weight, ihe figures will be printed upon his
sides and cxibited as the eighth wonder of tho
world.
But those are enormous o.\cn, full six feet
high, well formed, and though fat, not excessively so, or in any way misshapen. Their
color is a handsome red, with triangular white
spots in (lie forehead, very rnijcli alike in each,
and a little white on the belly of one. They
are now 8 years old, were raised by John Lee,
Washington County, New York, who  broke