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We might follow this subject to a much greater length, in 

 discussing the further progress of the English short-horns down 

 to a late day ; but it would be of little interest to any but the 

 breeders of pure short-horn blood, and as the subject is thoroughly 

 canvassed in the several volumes of the American Short-horn 

 Herd Book, to which they have access, a further pursuit of it is 

 omitted. Suffice it to say, that the short-horns now stand in the 

 front rank of all the bovine races in Great Britain, and on some 

 portions of the continent adjacent, and in the Australian and 

 Canadian Colonies, where the soil and climate is adapted to their 

 support. All the breeds of English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish 

 cattle are more or less crossed by them, and although many of 

 these other breeds still hold a high reputation in their purity of 

 blood and their several excellent qualities, the short-horns, in 

 their purity, and much more in their crosses with other breeds, 

 are continually gaining foothold and reputation. They are the 

 heaviest beef cattle driven to. the London markets, and are 

 claimed to be ripe at an earlier age than others ; while for dairy 

 cows, as milkers, when bred for that purpose, they excel. These 

 assertions may be taken with allowance, but their still advancing 

 popularity must be supposed to add somewhat of proof to their 

 general excellence. 



THE SHORT-HORNS IN AMERICA. 



It has been difficult to collect every account of the earlier 

 introduction of short-horns into the United States. Such as we 

 have been able to obtain we shall relate. 



Soon after the termination of the Revolutionary war with 

 England, a few cattle, supposed to be pure short-horns, were 

 brought into Virginia by a Mr. Miller. These were said to be 

 well fleshed animals, and the cows remarkable for milk, giving 

 as high as thirty-two quarts in a day. Some of the produce of 

 these cattle, as early as 1797, were taken into Kentucky by a 

 Mr. Fatten, where, as little was known of "breeds," they were 



