AN ERA OF EXPANSION. 



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supported by the owners of Short-horns of all strains, should aid 

 in keeping up this mania is a matter we cannot comprehend. For 

 our own part we mean in the future, as in the past, to keep clear 

 of this mania. While admitting, as we always have, the high ex- 

 cellence of these rival stocks we shall insist that they are not 

 superior in blood or in valuable characteristics to the cattle of 

 other good breeders, and that those, therefore, who claim for 

 them this pre-eminent superiority are misleading the public and 

 unjustly depreciating the value of other Short-horns." 



This is the first time we find any public edi- 

 torial condemnation of the tendency of the 

 times in Short-horn breeding circles, a fact 

 which indicates clearly that the rank and file 

 of American Short-horn breeders were begin- 

 ning to grow restive under the constant and 

 usually arrogant assumptions of superiority in- 

 dulged in by the dealers in the "fashionable" 

 strains of that day. 



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