THE SHORT-HOKNS. 165 



"Whether it is because they have become the fashion, or are 

 thus spreading on their own individual merits over the otliers, I 

 did not so much inquire, but conc.uded from the fact of their 

 increasing propagation among farmers, where almost everything 

 is made to pay, that they find them their most profitable neat 

 stock. Still, they cannot profitably thrive everywhere, and wide 

 ranges of land exist, both in Britain and America, where differ- 

 ent breeds, better fitted to close pasturage and rougher soils, 

 must be kept, as more suitable to the wants and purposes of the 

 people who inhabit them." 



