40 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



In summing up the foregoing remarks, the reader will conclude 

 that the writer has little affection for our "native" cattle. In 

 the mass, he has not. Yet there are wide and numerous excep- 

 tions, and among these exceptions we can name no definite class 

 of the natives among which to particularize. Our choice would 

 be of individual animals only, not of herds taken as they run. 

 Even on those of our choice, we would not rely for improvement 

 by breeding among themselves only, but by the introduction of 

 pure bred bulls of some established breed, would we look for 

 permanent progress in our herds. 



