DISTRIBUTION OF THE SHORT-HORNS. I$I 



beyond any other breed, both in pure bloods and grades, the now 

 most widely predominating stock of any distinct race of cattle. 

 Never were the prices paid for choice animals in England so high 

 as now, and never were animals of choice and fashionable blood 

 so eagerly sought. For many years past they have, in large numbers, 

 been exported to the neighboring continent and to various English 

 colonies in the latter, mostly to Australia and the Canadas while 

 men in the United States for fifty years past have purchased and brought 

 out hundreds of their choicest breeding, and still are annually draw- 

 ing from the British herds their most cherished blood. Strangest of 

 all, English breeders are now almost annually sending to America to 

 purchase and take home to the land of their ancestors some of the 

 descendants of the cattle which years ago they parted with, declaring 

 in such instances, a positive improvement over many of their own 

 animals which they kept at home. And this improvement in the 

 American cattle they consider derived from our fresher pastures and 

 the skill with which they have been bred. Such a concession may 

 be considered no mean tribute to the enterprise of our American 

 breeders ! Thus, for the present, we take leave of the Short-horns 

 in England, and proceed to their successors in America. 



