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proved Short-horns lay no claim to being considered dairy 

 animals. 



I do not mean to say that these remarks will apply to 

 every section of our country. You will, however, sustain 

 me in applying them to many sections, and I am supported 

 in my position by the testimony of many intelligent farmers. 

 One thing, however, I do find universally acknowledged, 

 viz : that Short-horns, pure and grade, require an abund- 

 ant supply of nutritious food, and careful shelter and shade. 

 It must be said of them that they are not universally ap- 

 plicable, and that, as an animal for the small farmer, they 

 are hardly appropriate. I find the same view taken of 

 them in some parts of England, as in the county of Shrop- 

 shire, for instance, where Herefords of every description 

 are decidedly preferred ; not, as I can learn, for the dairy 

 at all, in any form, either pure or grade, but for easy feed- 

 ing and rapid fattening after reaching maturity. 



I have dwelt upon Short-horns as the foundation of a 

 grazing stock for some sections of our country, because 

 they have attracted more attention than either Herefords 

 or Devons ; because they have imparted, from their size 

 and show, more striking characteristics to our cattle than 

 either of the other breeds, and because they have attained 

 so high a celebrity in their own country. They have, 

 moreover, a strain of milking blood in their veins which has 

 shown itself in grades, with great advantage to the dairy. 

 Perhaps the same can be said, indeed, of Herefords and 

 Devons, the latter of which have been extensively tried, and 

 the power of which, for their hardiness, shape, size and 

 thrift, deserve more consideration than they have yet receiv- 

 ed. It seems to me that for all our various localities they pos- 

 sess a degree of applicability which might be very valua- 



