THE SHOUT-HORNS. 



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to a high reputation, and, in the demand created for his stock, 

 soon secured him a fortune. Meantime other breeders were not 

 idle. The CMhngs, as before said, first got their best early stock 

 from the older breeders around them, and while those older 

 breeders kept on improving their herds to a quality perhaps 

 equal to the Collings, the travels of the "ox" and "heifer," 

 known to be bred by him, had achieved a high reputation for 

 Charles, and stamped him, in ' the minds of , many, as the real 

 "improver" of the race. There was, by the way, no Galloway, 

 or "alloy'' blood, in these traveled animals, nor did any breeder 

 ever boast of having it, but whenever they did have it, bred it 

 out by the use of thorough bred bulls, as fast as possible. To 

 show the style of the old short-horns in CoUing's time, we give 

 a portrait of a cow, copied from the first volume of Coates' 

 Herd Book. She is only in moderate condition, but shows the 

 strong and weU-defined marks of an e.xcellent animal. 



Plate I'.i. Slioit-Uoni (Juw of the old style. 



