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that in the form and quality of the cattle was a slower 

 process. But during the last few years the demand for 

 pedigree English cattle for Argentina has been enormous. 

 Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons have been imported 

 weekly, and a cross-bred English stock now fills the 

 ' corrals ' of the great beef and bovril companies of the 

 River Plate. In North America this Anglicizing process 

 has spread to all the States of the Union. Half-bred 

 Herefords and shorthorns are taking the place of the 

 common cattle of the States on nearly all the ranches of 

 the beef-producing districts, and the colonizing capacity 

 of different English breeds is recommending them for 

 special districts. Thus the Devon bulls are purchased 

 for ranches where the search for pasture and water 

 needs special activity and endurance, and red ' polled ' 

 or hornless Suffolks are used where cattle are being 

 bred for transit by rail or ship, because the absence of 

 horns is then convenient. Even tropical Brazil follows 

 the fashion, and English Jersey cows are seen demurely 

 walking through the forest-paths by the coffee-planta- 

 tions, and English terriers and pug-dogs sit on the laps 

 of Brazilian ladies. Whether the Jersey cattle will 

 multiply on the planters' estates time will show ; but 

 the spread of our colonizing animals, which are now 

 invading simultaneously the plains of Patagonia and 

 the North Canadian territory, does not limit its progress 

 to the direction of the Poles. In India the English 



