CHAPTER XV. 



THE SENSATION OF SEVENTY- THREE. 



The year 1873 dawned with the breed bask- 

 ing in the sunshine of a popularity such as no 

 other variety of improved live stock has ever 

 enjoyed. The wealth of the cattle-breeding 

 world was now ready to be poured at the feet 

 of the Short-horn. Notwithstanding the inter- 

 nal dissensions noted in the preceding chapter, 

 agricultural history has no parallel to the en- 

 thusiasm and boundless devotion displayed by 

 the followers of the "red, white and roan" 

 during this and the years immediately succeed- 

 ing. The beauty and practical utility of the 

 breed had captivated the great landed proprie- 

 tors of both hemispheres, as well as the farm- 

 ers and feeders of both continents; and under 

 the stimulus of a demand almost world-wide 

 in its character those who had the means to 

 gratify their taste for rare specimens of the 

 breed were forced to measure values not so 

 much by the mere intrinsic worth of individ- 

 ual animals for the feed-lot or the dairy as by 

 the degree of personal satisfaction flowing 



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