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bret'dcrs gradually extended to all tlie herds of 

 Scotland and later to those of entii'e Great Brit- 

 ain. There a,re scarcely any tSlioi'thoriis tliat 

 have not felt the benefits of this j^-ood blood and 

 by far the .ureater number of all Shorthorns are 

 in blood lines practically Scotch. Cattle coming 

 from Oi'cat Britain are l)ein,o- generally accepted 

 as Scotch and justly so. While the gi'eater imm- 

 ber of British Shorthorns do not descend in tlie 

 maternal line from cows bred in these Scotch 

 liei-ds, yet it is a fact that in many cases l)oth in 

 Europe and in America the Shorthoi'ns 2»roduced 

 by crossing these good Scotch bulls on the Eng- 

 lisli and American cows have become so filled 

 with this Scotch Idood that in essentials as well 

 as in non-eSsentials they are of one type, one fam- 

 ily and one breed with the cattle that crossed the 

 ocean since the early eighties. 



Scotch Stands for a Type. — Assiuning that 

 Scotch in Shorthoi-ns stands for a ty]»e, and no 

 one even fairly familiar with tlie facts in tlie ease 

 will attempt to deny this, it becomes immaterial 

 whether our Shorthorns that are being imported 

 come from England or Ireland oi' Scotland. So 

 long as they ai'c well loaded with Ihe blood of the 

 cattle that saved the breed, and ai'c good repre- 

 sentatives of their I'ace we can accept them. Im- 

 poi'tei'S and the l)u>'ing public recognize the cor- 

 rectness of this ])rincipU' and at present practic- 

 ally all impoi-ted animals are sold on their merits 



