Young Mary breeding met with very 

 great favor in the middle west along in 

 the '70s. C. M. Thomas, writing of Ken- 

 tucky Shorthorns in the Breeder's Ga- 

 zette (Aug. 1, 1900), says: "Not one but 

 several chapters would be required to tell 

 of the glorious achievements of Young 

 Mary and her produce." The Shorthorn 

 catalogues of those days were loud in 

 their praise of the blood of this family. 

 One catalogue says: "Her descendants 

 are counted by the score in almost every 

 state where Shorthorns are bred. They 

 have won lasting honors in "many well 

 contested show rings all over the land 

 and for useful qualities they have few 

 equals." 



The fame of Young Mary blood was 

 world-wide, and as late as 1887 a writer 

 in the London Live Stock Journal writes: 

 "Most of the Shorthorns bred in America 

 are of tribes which had won great dis- 

 tinction here before the frrst of it 

 'crossed the water.' Still there are ex- 

 ceptions; and the Young Marys, one 

 of the greatest families in the states, had 

 no reputation to speak of when the first' 

 was taken out." 



Since the setting in of the Scotch 

 Shorthorn tide the Young Mary family 

 has not attracted so much attention from 

 the younger breeders; neither is its his- 

 tory so well known by the present gen- 

 eration. However, Young Mary, as its 

 foundress, may justly be regarded as one 

 of the most distinguished and valuable 

 of the pioneer Shorthorn dams of Amer- 

 ica. 



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