l.ld A IIIS'l'lllt\ UK SlKliri'llOKNS IN KANSAS 



It would Ix; the. Iici<;iit, of I'olly to (liscriminutc 

 ;it, tills tliiK! hctwceii tlu^ (Icscenduiits of tli(\S(! 

 cattle of the scA'ciitics, but lest any man l»i' 

 t(!iiq)t('(l to throw a. stone at his iHii^hboi- I niitiht 

 iiieiitioii that sonic of llic very best of Mr. 

 Oruickshank's jiroductions wcr(^ dosc^ly de- 

 scended from uni'egi,st(!red cows without any 

 si,gn of a, pedij^J'ee, loui;' aftei' the eai'ly days of 

 tlie l)i'eed. '^Phe ris(^ and the passing' of the pedi- 

 gree discriminal ions ])i'oves conclusi\'<'ly that 

 real merit is the only safe and permanent foun- 

 dation upon which to buiUl. 



As stated Ixd'oi'c, the English hei'd book re- 

 cords cattle as Shorthoi'iis if the>' have five 

 Classes of re<-orded Shoi'thoi'ii blood. As long us 

 we l)uy im])oi-ted Shor1 horns at big ])i-ices we ad- 

 mit that the breeders ai'e at least flu.; ('([uals if 

 not the peers of Ihose in America and that this 

 I'ule which has l)een in force since IJritish b]-eed- 

 ers Ix'gan recording Shoi'thorns has done them 

 no harm. 1 f we care 1o be consistent we can not 

 well sio]t to (|uil)l)lc aboid whal weni iu1o a pedi- 

 gr<'e long yeai's ago. i1 is no1 my iuleiilion to 

 sa\' anyihing 1 hat miglh be cons1 1'ued as in fax'oi' 

 of any pai'liculai' line of breeding oi' against it, 

 and if any one is inclined 1o so construe what 

 I say I shall be sorry. My object is to IHrnish 

 infoj-mat ion, lea\'ing all to draw their own con- 

 clusions. 



"Scotch". — W'hile this is a word of only one 



