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any regard to pedigree, other than the fact that they were true Short- 

 horns. Thus his pedigrees ending in such cows are shorter than 

 those of the Bates' Duchesses, as well as of several other breeders 

 whose pedigrees run back to the earliest Short-horn records. 



Still, with all their excellencies of quality, the styles of the Booth, 

 and Bates, and some other herds have been and are still different in 

 some of their valuable as well as fancy points. Each one adopted 

 his own standard of excellence, each strived to attain it, and both of 

 them succeeded to a greater or less extent. We do not propose to 

 institute a comparison of their qualities. Rivalries and competitions 

 ran high between the elder Booths, Bates, Mason, and other of the elder 

 breeders while living, and it is not impossible that equal rivalries and 

 competition may now exist among the admirers of their different 

 bloods, as well as in the bloods of other distinguished breeders. It 

 is a noble, a praiseworthy competition, and so long as honorably con- 

 ducted, altogether commendable. 



