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smooth, level frames, mature quickly on the 

 ordinary foods of the farm and are in great 

 demand for feeding purposes. The bulls 

 "cross" well upon cows of other types, being 

 especially valued for leveling and refining 

 the form of stock lacking size, finish and 

 quality. 



Grass a prime factor in cattle-growing. 

 England, the home of the Short-horn, with its 

 moist, equable climate, is a veritable paradise 

 for herbivorous animals. During those trying 

 months when American pastures lie brown and 

 bare under a fierce midsummer sun those of 

 England still afford green feed. Our blue-grass 

 fields in June are luxuriant beyond compare, 

 and in late autumnal days usually regain for a 

 time much of their earlier splendor, but the 

 season of uninterrupted grazing in England is 

 longer and the pastures carry a greater variety 

 of plants. While John Bull, therefore, owes 

 much of his fame as a producer of the flesh- 

 bearing breeds to the persistency of the island 

 verdure it has remained, nevertheless, for an 

 American to furnish agricultural literature 

 with a fitting tribute to "the universal benefi- 

 cence of grass." Not in the midst of the peer- 

 less pastures of old England, but on the rolling 

 prairies of our own breezy "Sunflower State" 

 of Kansas Senator Ingalls found his inspiration. 

 "It yields no fruit in earth or air, yet should its 



