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hidicrous. Sane men lost their heads over the 

 |)()ssil)ility of a coiieealed cross of unfashionable 

 ))l()od. I Tccall the well known breeder Chas. E. 

 Leonard's tellinu' nie in 188:5 that he W(.»uld be 



MR. AND MKS. FKE.MOXT LKIDV 



afraid to buy any Shorthorns without first ha^■- 

 iuii,' a man like Col. ^Iniv pass on the pedi^'rees. 

 Somewhere in my attic I have a b(M»k entitled 

 "A K('(.'ord of Unfashionable ( 'rosses in Short- 

 hoim iV'di^rces" copies of which many leading;' 

 breeders used as a safe,sj,-uard against the possible 

 CO- tanui:ation of tlieir hei'ds. This condition 

 oliiaincd with more or less force, owing to local- 

 ity, nntil the time was ripe and the American 

 Shoi'tliorn was regenerated ))y the then unfash- 

 ionable cattle from Scotland. 



