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advise our farmers never to purchase or breed from a Short- 

 horn, the ancestors of which have not been noted for tlieir 

 milking properties. 



Mr. Bates, one of the most distinguished breeders of Short- 

 horns in the kingdom, and a successful prize winner for his 

 stock, gave me, say Mr. Colman, as his opinion, that there 

 were two lines of the Short-horns, — the one large milkers, the 

 other different. 



Loudon says, page 964 : — 



" The Short-horned, sometimes called the Dutch breed, is known by a 

 variety of names, taken from the districts where they form the principal 

 cattle stock, or where most attention has been paid to their improvement; 

 thus different families of this race are distinguished by the names of the 

 Holderness, the Teeswater, the Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland and 

 other breeds. The Teeswater breed, a variety of Short-horns, established 

 on the banks of the Tees, at the head of the vale of York, is at present 

 in the highest estimation, and is alleged to be the true Yorkshire Short- 

 horned breed. 



" The bone, head and neck of these cattle are fine, the hide is very 

 thin, the chine full, the loin broad, the carcass throughout large and well 

 fashioned, and the flesh and fatting quality equal, or perhaps superior to 

 those of any other large breed. The Short-horns give a greater quantity 

 of milk than any other cattle ; a cow usually yielding twenty -four quarts 

 of milk per day, making three firkins of butter during the grass season." 



The same writer says : — 



" The objects to be kept in view in breeding cattle, are a form well 

 adapted to fatten ; well adapted for producing milk, or for labor. These 

 three objects have each of them engaged the attention of British agricul- 

 turists ; but experience has not hitherto justified the expectation that 

 has been entertained of combining all these desirable properties in an 

 eminent degree, in the same race. That form which indicates the prop- 

 erty of yielding the most milk, differs materially from that which we 

 know from experience to be combined with early maturity and the most 

 valuable carcass ; and the breeds which we understand to give the 

 greatest weight of meat for the food they consume, and to contain the 

 least proportion of offal, are not those which possess in the highest degree, 

 the strength and activity required in beasts of labor. A disposition to 

 fatten, and a tendency to yield a large quantity of milk cannot be 

 COMBINED. The form of the animal most remarkable for the first is 

 very different from that of the other ; in place of being flat in the sides 



