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with noses of a deeper color, either orange, drab, nut-colored, or 

 cloudy. 



For grade breeding, that is, for beef or dairy purposes, (and for the 

 most progressive purposes of working up toward the pure blood,) a 

 grade bull should never be used, when a thorough-bred one can be 

 obtained; provided the bull be otherwise good, if he have a dark 

 nose it need not be objected to. No matter what the color of the 

 nose, the cow will milk as well, and the steer feed as profitably as if 

 that feature in them were the height of perfection. 



BODILY COLORS OF SHORT-HORNS. 



The legitimate colors of the race, from their earliest history, have 

 been red, in its different shades, and pure white, either one prevailing 

 to greater or less extent over {he entire body, or spreading in various 

 proportions of each in distinct patches, or the promiscuous interming- 

 ling of both into either a light or red roan, as accident might govern, 

 giving the animal a picturesque and agreeable appearance to the eye 

 of the spectator. The lighter shades of red are termed "yellow- 

 red," which, among the earlier animals, occasionally run into a pale 

 dun, or drab, mingling with white, as with the deeper reds; but 

 within the last fifty years the dun or drab hues have mostly disap- 

 peared and become unfashionable, the full reds of lighter or deeper 

 shades having the preference. Still, the light dun or drab may occa- 

 sionally crop out in a calf of perfect pedigree without prejudice to 

 its blood or lineage. 



Fifty years ago a preponderance of white, and less of red, was the 

 usual color, and in many distinguished animals pure white was equally 

 acceptable as red, red and white, or roan, with the best breeders. In 

 fact, we cannot discover that so late as twenty years ago objection 

 was made to a good animal solely on account of color, either red, in 

 any of its different shades, or their intermixtures with white, or the 

 pure white itself. It has been so in England from the earliest days 

 down to the present time. Any shade, in fact, from the deepest to the 

 lightest in the reds, to pure white, and their mixtures, are legitimate 

 Short-horn colors, and any choice in preference to more or less of 

 these prevailing in the animal, is simply a matter of taste with the 

 breeder or owner. 



There has, of late years, however, grown up in the United States a 

 fashion in colors, red being the choice, and deep red the prevailing 

 choice. This fashion, we believe, has been mainly induced by the 



