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a tribute and imposes an obligation. (In some countries the 

 Hereford, Angus, and Devon will be found more suitable ; it 

 greatly dei)ends on rainfall and condition of country and pas- 

 ture.) Native stocks lack beef fornix — that form which in the 

 feed lots of the world has been proved to grow rapidly, thrive 

 easily and produce the desirable cuts of beef in the greatest 

 proportion to wastes. Scale, thrift, and ^nde antl level form 

 are the requisites of a profitable beef-i)roducer. The grower 

 must have weight at the finish, the packer must have flesh that 

 will cut profitably. The founders of the Shorthorn breed lived 

 close to the pasture, the feed-lot and the butcher, evolving in 

 their ideals a type that met the dual requirements of the 

 producer and the purveyor of prime beef. Wherever the blood 

 touches native stocks it instantly registers its leavening influ- 

 ence, and the unimproved, the scrub, becomes a visibly homo- 

 geneous part of the great tribe of thrifty beef-makers that wears 

 the colours of red, white and roan. The appeal can be made 

 world-wide and ever is it answered in unison. The cosmopoli- 

 tan character of the breed is proved in its distribution that 

 ranges more widely than that of any other improved race of 

 cattle, and its i)ower of universal betterment is registered on 

 all stocks of whatever origin or ty])e it touches. 



The first cross tells the tale. The Shorthorn bull lirands 

 indelibly his offspring in size, levelness, feeding ((ualify. The 

 history of cattle improvement, on whatever continent it is 

 studied, proves the vital influence of Sliorthorn blood in its 

 foundation-laying first cross. On that foundation other breeds 

 have built, to the great satisfaction of breeders who luive skil- 

 fully crossed and carefully grazed and fed, and these breeders, 

 wide-visioned, broad-gauged, fair-minded men, right cheei-fully 

 accord credit to the Shoi-fhorn breed for its foundation woi'k. 



No breed has so essentially earned the title of the universal 

 improver of native stocks as the Shorthorn. The blood of this 

 breed is ''first aid to the injured," blending kindly and effec- 

 tively for the elimination of the undesirable characteristics of 

 the primitive types, and adding size, framework, levelness of 

 flesh and aptitude to fatten. Long years, has the Shorthorn 

 breed held this honoured position, from which it will not be 

 dis])laced by any other breed while native stocks of any country 

 or clime require the union of blood which will lay the foundation 

 foi' profitable feeding. Tt is a place of ))rid(^ and a position 

 of responsibility. 



