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Shorthorns, reiDiesenting the herds of twentj' 

 different states, at the Chicago Show of 1882, 

 and live hundred in 1883. 



F. D. COBURN, 



Topeka, Kan. 



AMBEOSE STEVENS SATS "OLD WAY'S THE BEST." 



The "Kentucky Live Stock Record," in an 

 article on Cattle in America, says : "Now, what 

 are our resources for the great improvement of 

 cattle ? Mainly it rests with the Shorthorns. Of 

 the improved breeds fitted to add to the beef 

 production, he is now' the chief one. He exists 

 in so much larger numbers than does any other 

 breed, that he must of necessity be the chief 

 source of reliance in improvement, even if it 

 be claimed that another race was better. But 

 no other race has shown equal value in im- 

 proving inferior cattle. Seventy years since, 

 the Shorthorn was only known in a very lim- 

 ited region of his own country — England. 

 Now he dominates in it everywhere, every 

 other race as the source of improvement of our 

 inferior cattle. He has been in America, in 

 "forty to fifty years, the chief source of im- 

 provement of our inferior cattle. He has in 

 this country at present such a lead as an im- 



prover that no chikl to-day born will see his 

 position diminished 



"But there is a movement to introduce more 

 largely the Hereford as a source of improve- 

 ment. There will, this year of 1880, be not 

 less than five hundred of them imported to 

 America. We are glad to see this. We shall 

 have the Hereford put alongside the Short- 

 horn in some measure, here, to show their rela- 

 tive value. No one who has seen Herefords 

 will deny their great merit as beefmakers. But 

 the question is, will they make head against 

 the Shorthorn any better in America than they 

 have in England ? In the native home of the 

 two races, the Shorthorn has almost already 

 supplanted the Hereford as the source of im- 

 provement in market cattle. Can the Here- 

 ford make head in America against the Short- 

 horn, while he has failed to do so in his own 

 country? We think not." .... 



Commenting on this, the "Breeder's Jour- 

 nal" said : 



The editor of the "L. S. Record's" Cattle De- 

 partment has been conversant with the means 

 that have been used to give the Shorthorns 

 popularity in England and America, and to cry 

 down and write down every other breed from 



MISSOURI FARM SCENE. 

 "Noontime." 



