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some of them were introduced in Kentucky by a Mr. 

 Patton, and were known as the " Patton Stock." 

 They were used as breeders, and their strain decidedly 

 improved the cattle in the blue grass region. For 

 many years the Shorthorn was bred in the United 

 States as a milk producer. Among their number 

 were found some of the finest specimens of milk 

 producers in this country. About the middle of the 

 last century many breeders of Shorthorns began to 

 direct their efforts toward developing the beef ten- 

 dencies of the breed, and this class of cattle came to 

 be recognized as among the very best in that respect. 

 The result was that their reputation of milk and but- 

 ter producers was somewhat overshadowed. 



They have splendid constitutions, and stand unsur- 

 passed in their ability to assimilate food profitably for 

 beef production. For the last quarter of a century 

 many dairymen among the admirers of the Short- 

 horns have been developing the dairy type. To-day 

 there are many herds doing fine work as dairy cattle. 

 Kitty Clay, fourth, bred in New York, owned in 

 Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was the champion 

 butter-producing cow in the great test in Chicago in 

 1893. In the thirty days' trial her yield was 1,593 

 pounds of milk which made 62 l / 2 pounds of btitter. 

 As a two-year-old she produced 28 pounds of milk 

 a day, and 5 1-3 pounds of butter. In 1895 she 

 produced 5,000 pounds of milk in three months, her 

 best being 65 pounds a day. Her son at five years 

 weighed 2,080 pounds. His dressed four quarters 

 weighed 1,456 pounds. Kitty's weight at ten years 

 old was 1,348 pounds. The Shorthorns are the 



