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ludicrous. Sane men lost their heads over the 

 possibility of a concealed cross of unfashionable 

 blood. I recall the well known breeder Chas. E. 

 Leonard's telling me in 1883 that he would be 



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afraid to buy any Shorthorns without first hav- 

 ing a man like Col. Muir pass on the pedigrees. 

 Somewhere in my attic I have a book entitled 

 "A Kecord of Unfashionable Crosses in Short- 

 horn Pedigrees" copies of which many leading- 

 breeders used as a safeguard against the possible 

 contamination of their herds. This condition 

 obtained with more or less force, owing to local- 

 ity, until the time was ripe and the American 

 Shorthorn was regenerated by the then unfash- 

 ionable cattle from Scotland. 



