136 AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



" She's long in her face, she's fine in her horn, 

 She'll quickly get fat, without cake or corn ; 

 She's clean in her jaws, and lull m her chine, 

 She's heavy in Hank, and wide in her loin. 



She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump, 

 A straight and flat back, with never a hump; 

 She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes ; 

 She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. 



She's light in her neck, and small in her tail, 

 She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail ; 

 She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin — 

 She's a grazier's without and a butcher's within." 



To the breeders of cattle, the Herd Book, a vol- 

 ume commenced by Mr. Coates, and enlarged by 

 new additions almost annually, is indispensable. 

 As the Improved Short Horns are a breed created 

 within the memory of man, and as their value main- 

 ly deflpids on the purity of their blood, a clear and 

 unbroKen pedigree is necessary for the security of 

 the purchaser ; and this may in all cases, where 

 such blood exists, be 'traced in the Herd Book. Not 

 only the pedigree complete of the English pure 

 Short Horns may here be found, but that of the ani- 

 mals imported into this country, which have any 

 title to the name, may be seen at once. Like the 

 British Heraldry, its use is to detect impostors and 

 expose pretenders, and for this purpose it is well 

 adapted. 



If the Improved Short Horns are to be extensive- 

 ly introduced into this country, it will be in the same 

 way and for the same reason that all our other im- 

 provements are adopted. It will not be in conse- 

 quence of any abstract or theoretical reasonings on 

 their merits, but because they are found, from expe- 

 rience, to be more profitable than any other stock. 

 Though what may be called an artificial breed, it is 

 already one of the largest in the world ; and it pos- 

 sesses one advantage which perhaps no otlier breed 

 possesses in an equal degree, which is this, that 



