332 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



binger and her dam by Mr. Lax's Baron of Rav- 

 ensworth both bulls that imparted short legs 

 and thick flesh to nearly all their offspring. 

 Mr. John Thornton, the able English live-stock 

 auctioneer, who visited the States in 1869, ap- 

 parently approved of this observation of Mr. 

 Beattie's in a measure, for he was quoted as say- 

 ing that he regarded the Mazurkas as the most 

 promising foundation for a fine family of cattle 

 of any one sort he had seen in America. 



