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animal is better than a scrub." That is true, but v/e must look 

 after the interests of the breed if we would develop it in the proper 

 way. 



We must have more steers, too, in the large stock shows. Now 

 coming right down to our own affairs, we had the most wonder- 

 ful exhibit of Shorthorns last summer, gentlemen, that I have seen 

 in all my life. I think the exhibit at the International last De- 

 cember was the most magnificent display of pure bred Shorthorns 

 the world has even seen. And yet there was not more than two 

 or three pure bred steers there worth sending to any market. It 

 was quite plain that practically none but the scrubs had been uti- 

 lized for that class, and I think we were almost disgraced. But 

 fortunately for us, the other breeds did not do much better. The 

 Herefords, nor the Angus, nor the Galloways had done much bet- 

 ter, and that saved my feelings to some extent, but I want to see 

 the Shorthorn men get together and put their shoulders to the 

 wheel in that particular line and show what they can do. 



I cut an article out of the London Livestock Journal the other 

 day that contained a grain of comfort to the Shorthorn men. It 

 happened that a pure bred Shorthorn steer was the champion of 

 the great show. It also happened that the junior champion 

 was a pure bred Shorthorn. The champion heifer, called an An- 

 gus, had a Shorthorn sire. That is a peculiar thing which I want 

 to say to my Angus friends. (Applause.) Last year there were 

 fifty-two entries in the Smithfield Livestock Show. Fifty-one had 

 Shorthorn blood on one side or the other. Whenever a Hereford 

 man wants to produce a wonderfully good steer he takes a Short- 

 horn cow for its mother. Whenever you see the Hereford man 

 getting anxious to produce an extra fine animal you see him come to 

 the Shorthorn. (Applause.) Why? Because the Shorthorn cow 

 has had bred into her these good qualities until they are prepotent. 



Here is a little testimony from the "Argentine." This is a 

 pamphlet published in Argentina. These gentlemen have handled 

 four-fifths of the improved cattle that have been taken to the Ar- 

 gentines. Of all the European cattle represented in the Ar- 

 gentines the Shorthorn is the most generally favored, and the 

 English name "Durham" is used in preference to Shorthorn. The 

 undoubted success of this breed in that country and its value in 

 grading the cattle of other breeds is another proof of the wonderful 

 and unique characteristics of the Shorthorn. 



That is the testimony that is communicated to us from Aus- 

 tralia, from New Zealand and from every part of the world. Even 



