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as individuals, there being little discrimination 

 on account of the point of origin. 



A Contrast. For years the two great political 

 parties of the United States made ugly faces at 

 each other over what was then known as " pro- 

 tection to American industry." The substance 

 of this was that both parties wanted legal enact- 

 ments to give the American producer sufficient 

 advantage in trade over foreign producers to vir- 

 tually allow the American production suprem- 

 acy. The only question was how much and 

 for want of other " burning issues" the parties 

 divided on the amount. 



American Shorthorn breeders do not seem to 

 be of this same calibre for they very generously 

 accept an animal at a big price, if it comes across 

 the water, while an equally good American bred 

 one with equally good or better pedigree and per- 

 haps more individual merit and more real Scotch 

 blood is not even considered worthy to do service 

 in a pure bred herd. This, of course, is pedigree 

 discrimination of the rankest sort and leads to a 

 limitation of choice which should not exist but 

 which suits the speculative element perfectly. 



Scotch or Scotch Topped. Almost daily I 

 am asked "How can I tell whether an animal is 

 Scotch or not?" From the preceding state- 

 ments it may be correctly inferred that the very 

 great majority of Shorthorns belong in the 

 Scotch class as far as blood lines are concerned 



