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1889, and yet there are men here in the West in this year 

 of our Lord 1901 boasting of their "pure Cruickshanks," 

 as if some element of special superiority attached to that 

 which may be in reality a downright objection. New be- 

 ginners who have yet to learn the abc's of Short-horn 

 history go to buy a bull and insist upon having none but 

 a "straight" this or a "straight" that when better cattle 

 of equally good or even better breeding might be had for 

 less money. If there are any such here I hope they will 

 tell this audience why it is that they commit this crime 

 against the memories and the teachings of the very men 

 in whose footsteps they seem to think they are following 

 by the adoption of this course. The makers of Short-horn 

 history did not do business in this way. 

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What we need above everything else just now is some 

 Moses to lead the Short-horn hosts out of the bondage of 

 fads and fashions. Some day, somewhere, some time, a 

 man will again engage in this pursuit who will have the 

 necessary courage to show the way; and I predict here 

 and now that his triumph will be as complete as that of 

 the Booths or Bates or of Cruickshank. He will be a real, 

 not an imaginary follower of their methods. He may use 

 much, little, or none of the prevailing popular bloods. He 

 will go up and down the Short-horn world selecting here 

 and selecting there that which seems likely to contribute 

 towards the accomplishment of his settled purpose. He 

 will then probably fuse the mass by blood concentration 

 and his name will be given to a type that will become the 

 new idol of the Short-horn cattle breeding fraternity. His- 

 tory repeats itself. What 'has been done can be done 

 again. I glory in the grit of the man here in this State 

 to-day who is pushing "Casey's mixture." He stands for 

 a principle which if steadily and intelligently pursued will 

 bring new laurels to the temple of Short-horn fame. 



During the past few years you have enlarged your vision 

 in respect to the prevailing fashionable blood. You have 

 now thrown the doors wide open to all Scotland. Time 

 was when you thought that your sires should run direct 



