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"Now, in the language of Boss Tweed, 'What 

 are you going to do about it?' Will we leave 

 these important matters to chance in the future 

 as we have in the few years just passed, or will 

 we meet brains witli brains, intelligence with 

 intelligence, money with money, and enterprise 

 with enterprise, in the production of superior, 

 well-bred, carefully selected, and thoroughly fed 

 representative types of our breed ? Or shall we 

 retire from the Show Ring, disgraced, shamed, 

 humiliated, and hooted out, as the old-fashioned 

 fogy advocates of a by-gone breed of antiquated 

 cattle, and be with them laid away to mould, 

 worn-out relics, outgrown specimens, to make 

 room for a new order of things for the progres- 

 sive American, with his progressive animals, en- 

 larged and improved? 



. "Returning to my text, I am a Shorthorn 

 breeder. Despite their neglect and abuse by 

 their owners and advocates, I believe their capa- 

 bilities of development exceed all others, and 

 that they are best suited by nature for my pur- 

 pose and locality. I never expect to become a 

 Shorthorn King, and to any of my Kansas 

 friends entertaining such an opinion of their 

 own future, I will say, whatever I can do to aid 

 them to accomplish that end, I will cheerfully, 



yea, gladly, do; but as an humble breeder of 

 plain Shorthorns 1 am interested in this issue, 

 and while I am not able, financially, to bear the 

 brunt, nor have I the feeding experience to 

 qualify me to enter into this competition, yet, 

 some one must enter in for us all. The burden 

 should be proportionately borne in these things 

 for the common good. The gauntlet has been 

 thrown down and has been taken up. The war- 

 fare is waged. The combatants are falling, first 

 on one side and then on the other. Victory 

 wavers. The reinforcements are in view, com- 

 ing up to the assistance of our opponents. Shall 

 we let our representatives go down, or shall we 

 reinforce them? 



"Such a policy as outlined, pursued by the 

 advocates of the different breeds, has caused 

 the present state of things. As a consequence, 

 grade Herefords and grade Polled bulls are 

 readily sold to-day at from $100 to $200 per 

 head; and grade Shorthorns are slow of sale 

 at $40 to $60 per head ; and thoroughbred Here- 

 fords and Polled bulls sell at auction at from 

 $350 to $1,400, and Shorthorns at $100 to $500. 

 Therefore it becomes a question that interests 

 every breeder of Shorthorns away down deep 

 in the vacancy of his pockets." 



PRINCESS B. 1777. 

 Bred by G. S. Burleigh, Vassalboro, Me. 



