THE SHORT-HORNS. 



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We add the portrait of a heifer at two years, in which is seen 

 the wonderful development of her race at that early age. 



Plate 23. Short-horn Heifer. 



They cannot be classed with any other breed of cattle, and 

 are not to be accurately judged by the same rules that apply to 

 them. It has been said that the short-horn is an artificial breed. 

 That is not so. That they have been greatly improved above 

 their original condition, is true more highly improved, perhaps, 

 than any other breed but that is a susceptibility of their nature. 

 It is an evidence that they originally possessed the power of 

 such improvement, within themselves, for we have seen, in their 

 history, that there is no known race which has shown itself capa- 

 ble of making them any better. Charles Colling tried a cross 

 of the short-horn with the Galloway. He improved the Gallo- 

 way, but not the short-horn, and abandoned another trial. Mr. 

 Bates, a breeder for more than fifty years, tried it with the 



