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inces, and both the Canadas. The severe winters of the North 

 appear to be no bar to their success. How far South they may 

 go, is yet to be tried. Wherever the proper herbage will grow 

 the blue grass, for instance they may be successfully intro- 

 duced ; but somewhat of care they must have, or they will, 

 unquestionably dwindle. 



For the improvement of our native cattle, either for the dairy 

 or the shambles, no foreign breed has been so much sought. 

 They have spread all through the Northern and Middle States, 

 all over the West, have been driven over the plains into Cali- 

 fornia, and even to Oregon, in the valleys of the Williamette and 

 the Columbia. They appear destined to go into every place 

 where cattle are successfully bred, and good herbage abounds, as 

 being the stock which, whatever may be the merits of others, in 

 certain localities, must, in the majority, prevail. 



That in their native country, England, the short-horns are 

 rapidly increasing, as well as extending into the more fertile 

 lands of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, Mr. A. B. Allen, of New 

 York, who visited many of the chief agricultural counties there, 

 in the year 1841, and again in the summer of 1867, in a recent 

 letter remarks : " When I was first in England, the short-horns 

 were confined to a comparatively narrow territory, and those 

 chiefly in the north-easterly and central counties. Now, they are 

 seen, either thorough bred, or in their crosses, in almost every 

 part of the United Kingdom where good grasses and the best 

 agriculture prevail. Not only in the fields of the ordinary farm- 

 ers, but in many of the finest parks of the nobility and gentry, 

 their grand forms, and picturesque colors, show, in abounding 

 numbers, grazing among the deer, or in occasional groups among 

 the clustered woods, or in the open pleasure grounds. I found 

 them even working on towards the Scottish Highlands, trench- 

 ing into the homes of the Ayrshires, and Galloways, and cross- 

 ing, more or less, into almost all the old local breeds. 



