820 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



called the attention of the manager to the fact 

 that the Short-horn steers would average sev- 

 enty-five pounds heavier than those in which 

 other bloods predominated, which fact was 

 promptly admitted. No man in the American 

 cattle trade stands higher than Murdo Macken- 

 zie. A large buyer and user of Herefords him- 

 self, his statements herewith quoted, made in 

 the course of a recent interview with the au- 

 thor, reflect not the partisanship of a Short- 

 horn breeder, but the deliberate judgment of 

 one of the best informed and most intelligent 

 of the present generation of brainy cattlemen 

 operating on the Western range. 



Similar testimony comes from every nook 

 and corner of the great grazing grounds of the 

 Western plains and mountain valleys as well 

 as from the Pacific Slope.* In the Northwest 

 Short-horn blood has been iu demand ever 

 since neat cattle superseded the buffalo. Con- 

 rad Kohrs,f Pierre Wibaux and their contem- 

 poraries have spread the Short-horn colors ev- 



* Pure-bred Short-horns were introduced into Calif ornia a great many 

 yeara ago and the blood has been freely used upon the immense ranches of 

 that State. One of the most notable shipments ever sent to the Coast was 

 a purchase made by John D. Carr from Col. William S. King of Lyndale, 

 which included among' other celebrities the great imported Cruickshank 

 cow Christabel, by Champion of England. 



t Conrad Kohrs made his first large investment in Northwestern cattle 

 in 1866, when he bought from "Johnnie" Grant a large herd containing 

 many well-bred Short-horns. In 1871 he began buying Short-horn bulls on 

 an extensive scale throughout the corn-belt. His annual shipments of 

 beef cattle to Eastern markets have averaged about 3,000 head, and these, 

 on account of their good breeding, have uniformly commanded a high 

 price 



