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recognized breed of cattle known as Shorthorns, and s'ou may 

 twist and turn it, and try to get aronnd it any way you please, 

 but you must finally go back and start with " Hubback," and 

 come right along down with him. You cannot evade it ; and 

 why tliere should be any local opposition set up to the Short- 

 horn,- J do not know. We all know for a hundred years, the 

 Scotch farmers have been at work to produce the best dairy cow, 

 in which the vascular system is better developed than in any 

 other animal in the world, and they have established that. Why 

 should we say, " We will go to work and get up a breed of 

 Ayrshires here ? " We have got a cow that has got along so 

 far, we have got a good animal to start from, and why not stay 

 there ? For a hundred years, and I don't know but five hun- 

 dred, the farmers of the island of Jersey have been devoting 

 themselves to the production of an animal suitable to their 

 specific purposes, known the world over — the Jersey cow — 

 famous for the production of milk, so filled with oleaginous 

 matter that there is probably no better milking animal in the 

 world. If any man has an animal that he can trace back to 

 tlie island of Jersey, that is enough. Why go wandering over 

 the mountains and through the valleys of New Hampshire and 

 Vermont to find out if there is any way of getting round the 

 rule. We have found the road, let us stick to it, and we can go 

 on improving our animals to the credit of ourselves and our 

 societies. 



I often hear the phrase " a thoroughbred horse." There is 

 no such thing as a thoroughbred horse in this country. The 

 word is applied especially to that class of horses, bred by Eng- 

 lishmen for generations from " Godolphin Arabian," and some 

 other Arabian horses introduced into the studs of England. 

 The American trotting horse contains an infusion of all known 

 bloods, just exactly as the thoroughbred Yankee does. After 

 having filled his veins with the fire of a thorough!»rcd horse, 

 direct from Arabia if you like, and after having got rid of the 

 odious knee action of tlie thoroughbred horse, you want a little 

 infusion of Canadian blood, to bring down his fore feet and open 

 his hind quarters in order that he may get along as a trotter. 

 Then he is given a chance to develop himself in just that 

 pasture land and that clover that will make, as the Professor 

 told us, a good horse — high dry lands, where their nerves, 



