cattle, snoRT-rroRjro. 
a 
own breeding, so that in the year 185G, it may be said that the. United 
States possessed, according to their numbers, as valuable a selection of 
Short-Horns as could be found in England itself. 
Keeping pace with the States, a number of enterprising Canadians, 
since the year 1835, among whom may be named the late Mr. Adam Fer- 
gusson, Mr. Howitt, Mr. Wade, the Millers, near Toronto, Mr. Frederick] 
Wm. Stone, of Guelph, and Mr. David Christie, of Brantford, in Canada 
West, and Mr. M. II. Cochrane and others, in Lower Canada, have made 
sundry importations of excellent cattle, and bred them with skill and 
spirit. Many cattle from these importations, and their descendants, 
have been interchanged between the United States and Canada, and all 
may now be classed, without distinction, as American Short-Horns, 
Short-Horns in the West. 
In the Northwestern States the first importation of Short-Horns direct 
from England was by the Illinois Importing Company, in 1858. This 
was an association of gentlemen, a part of them members of the Stato 
Board of Agriculture, in connection with prominent breeders of the 
State. They returned in July of the same year with twenty Short-ITorn 
cows and seven bulls, of approved blood, which were sold at auction on 
August 27th, at Springfield, to breeders throughout the State. They 
also brought over two stallions, three Cotswold rams, nine ewes, four 
Southdown rams, eight Southdown ewes, five Berkshire boars,’ four 
Berkshire sows, and ten boars and sow's of Irish breeds; also Cumber- 
land and T orkshiro boars and sow r s. From this time on, various States in 
the West have taken up tho breeding of Short-Horns as they have 
increased in wealth and population, until now no finer herds can bo 
found in any other locality; and, the fact that at the New York Mills 
sales individual animals brought prices all the way to over $30,000, for 
exportation to England — prices which before this time would have been 
considered fabulous— show's conclusively that Short-Horns, as bred in 
the United States, have not suffered in comparison with those bred in 
their native land. No such prices were ever reached before in any, 
country in the world ; nor have they been since. To-day they are found' 
wherever civilization extends. As beef producers they have no superiors ; 
as nnlk producers there are families eminent in this respect, and they have 
left their impress upon the stock of the country wherever introduced. 
Short-Horns for the Dairy. 
It has been held that tho Short-Horns are as good for milking as they 
are for beef. That they ouco were most excellent dairy cows there is no 
