160 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



breeders gradually extended to all the herds of 

 Scotland and later to those of entire Great Brit- 

 ain. There are scarcely any Shorthorns that 

 have not felt the benefits of this good blood and 

 by far the greater number of all Shorthorns are 

 in blood lines practically Scotch. Cattle coming 

 from Great Britain are being generally accepted 

 as Scptch and justly so. While the greater num- 

 ber of British Shorthorns do not descend in the 

 maternal line from cows bred in these Scotch 

 herds, yet it is a fact that in many cases both in 

 Europe and in America the Shorthorns produced 

 by crossing these good Scotch bulls on the Eng- 

 lish and American cows have become so filled 

 with this Scotch blood that in essentials as well 

 as in non-essentials they are of one type, one fam- 

 ily and one breed with the cattle that crossed the 

 ocean since the early eighties. 



Scotch Stands for a Type. Assuming that 

 Scotch in Shorthorns stands for a type, and no 

 one even fairly familiar with the facts in the case 

 will attempt to deny this, it becomes immaterial 

 whether our Shorthorns that are being imported 

 come from England or Ireland or Scotland. So 

 long as they are well loaded with the blood of the 

 cattle that saved the breed, and are good repre- 

 sentatives of their race we can accept them. Im- 

 porters and the buying public recognize the cor- 

 rectness of this principle and at present practic- 

 ally all imported animals are sold on their merits 



