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wide and level form are the requisites of a profitable beef 

 producer. 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 influence, and the unimproved, the 

 scrub, becomes a visibly homogeneous 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 cosmopolitan character of the breed 

 is proved in its distribution that ranges more widely than that 

 of any other improved race of cattle, and its power of universal 

 betterment is registered on all stocks of whatever origin or 

 type it touches. 



The first cross tells the tale. The Shorthorn bull brands 

 indelibly his offspring in size, levelness, feeding quality. The 

 history of cattle improvement, on whatever continent it is 

 studied, proves the vital influence of Shorthorn blood in its 

 foundation-laying first cross. On that foundation other breeds 

 have built, to the great satisfaction of breeders who have 

 skilfully crossed and carefully grazed and fed, and these 

 breeders, wide-visioned, broad-gauged, fair-minded men, right 

 cheerfully accord credit to the Shorthorn breed for its foun- 

 dation work. 



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 

 displaced by any other breed while native stocks of any 

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

 foundation for profitable feeding. It is a place of pride and 

 a position of responsibility. 



The obligation laid on the breed is no less conspicuous, in- 

 deed it is all the more inexorable because of the unchallenged 



