818 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



liamsville, 111., on the two-year-old Short-horn 

 Banner Bearer. In 1894 the Illinois State Board 

 made one final effort, holding an exhibition at 

 TattersalPs in Chicago, the Short-horns leaving 

 off, as they had begun in 1878, by capturing the 

 championship, the award going to J. H. Potts 

 & Son's Whiskers of Milton E. Jones' breeding. 

 Since that date America has unfortunately been 

 without a fat-stock show. It appears from the 

 above record that the Short-horns won eleven 

 out of the sixteen championships awarded, be- 

 sides contributing to the blood of two of the 

 grade Hereford champions. 



On the range. As already stated it was the 

 blood of Short-horn bulls that laid the founda- 

 tion for the present improved class of cattle 

 coming from the Western ranges. Large num- 

 bers of them had been used throughout the 

 Western country before the Herefords were 

 bred in the Western States, so that when the 

 ''white-faced' 7 bulls began going upon the 

 ranges the cow herds were in many instances 

 well graded up with Short-horn blood. The 

 Southwest has been the great breeding ground 

 of the new West and few men are better qual- 

 ified to speak of the manner in which the great 

 herds of the Texas Panhandle have been 

 brought to their present level than Mr. Charles 

 Goodnight. In a recent letter to the author 

 Mr. Goodnight, who is recognized as one of 



