CHAPTER XXIII. 



A DUAL-PURPOSE BREED. 



Since the days when the Renicks drove their 

 first well-bred bullocks from the Ohio Valley 

 over the mountains to the seaboard markets 

 the Short-horn has been a familiar figure in the 

 pastures, feed-lots, dairies and stock-yards of 

 the United States. When the mighty agricul- 

 tural empire of the Upper Mississippi Valley 

 came under the sway of the early settlers the 

 Short-horn was called to fill a place that he 

 seems destined to occupy for generations yet 

 to come. Throughout this broad realm of blue 

 grass and Indian corn the roan badge of Short- 

 horn birth has ever been a passport into the 

 favor of thoughtful farmers. In the develop- 

 ment of the great ranges of the farther West 

 the Short-horn bull was a pioneer in that won- 

 derful improvement that has at last driven the 

 Texas Long-horn from the plains and moun- 

 tains. On Australian "stations" and on the 

 estancias of Argentine the Short-horn bull has 

 led the line of progress toward greater weights 

 and neater carcasses. Others have since ap- 

 peared upon the scene to share with him the 



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