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VOL. XXVI. NO. 24 
WHOLE NO. 1194. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by D. I). T. Moore, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
annual sums thereafter, not excamling 
as the Board of Directors shall prescribe; 
but all Agricultural Colleges, or associa¬ 
tions breeding Short-Horn cattle, shall be 
entitled to one membership. 
Art. 1. The ofllcers and Directors flrst 
chosen Bhall bo elected for the term of two 
years, and until their successors are elected, 
and the membership in each State, Terri¬ 
tory and Province not represented at the 
first meeting may, by sending their names 
and fees aforesaid to the Treasurer, desig¬ 
nate a Director for such State, Territory 
or Province, whose term of office shall ex¬ 
pire at the same time as other members of 
the Board. The terms of officers subse¬ 
quently elected shall be for two years. 
Abt. 5. The Board of Directors, of whom 
nine shall constitute a quorum, shall have 
power to call meetings of the Association at 
such times and places as they may deem ne¬ 
cessary, but shall bo required 
to call meetings at the time of 
the expiration of the terms of 
the officers, and shall also have 
authority to provide such 
rules and regulations as they 
i iuay deem necessary for the 
protection of the pu blic against 
frauds in pedigrees, and for 
Uhi suppression of parties who 
may be guilty of the »aine. 
^ They shall likewise have pow¬ 
er to provide for the publica¬ 
tion of any transaction of the 
association, and to provide 
moans for the payment of all 
expenses that may be inour- 
Art. C. This Constitution 
may be amended at any regu¬ 
lar meeting, called for the 
election of officers, by a ma¬ 
jority of two-thirds of the 
members present. 
This Association elected the 
following 
dlllllt^: Officers: 
■ President— Dr, A. C. Ste¬ 
venson of Indiana. 
||||||||||| Vice-Presidents. — William 
W a r II e 1 d of Kentucky and 
■ Hon. David Christie of the 
Province of Ontario. 
Secretary. —B. F. Campbell 
°* ^ ino ‘ s * 
Treasurer. —John G. Dunn 
of Ohio. 
Hoard of Managers.—R. R. 
Seymour of Ohio; W. R. Dun¬ 
can of Illinois; E. G. Bedford 
of Kentucky; Dr. Manly Miles 
of Michigan; George Murray 
of Wisconsin ; Claude Mat- 
thews of Indiana; Samuel 
ifi^PH Campbell or Now York; J. H. 
§i||p||||§|| Bacon of Iowa; C. T. Quisen 
of Missouri; C. E. Coffin of 
Maryland ; Josiah Fogg of 
Massachusetts; Stephen 
White of the Province of On- 
tario; M. H. Cochran of the 
Province of Quebec ; W. S. 
King of Minnesota; Mark S, 
XvnnS'; Cookcrill of Tennessee; Geo. 
W. Glick of Kansas ; E. L. 
Emery of Nebraska ; C. W. 
Howard of California ; War¬ 
ren Percival of Maine, and D. 
L. Pratt of Vermont. 
ARTICLE 1. This association shall be 
known as the American Association of 
Breeders of Short-Horns. 
Art. 2. The officers of the Association 
shall bo a President, two Vice-Presidents, 
Treasurer and Secretary, who, with ouo 
Director from each State, and organized 
society of the United States and of the 
Provinces of Canada, that may bo repre¬ 
sented by membership In this Association, 
shall constitute u Board of Directors, for 
the management of the affairs of the As¬ 
sociation, subject to this Constitution, and 
such rules and regulations as the Associa¬ 
tion may from time to time adopt. 
Art. 3. Any person engaged in breeding 
Short-Horn cattle in the States, Territor¬ 
ies and Provinces before mentioned, may 
become a member of tlio Association by 
signing the Constitution, and paying the 
sum of $2, and shall bo liable to pay such 
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF SHORT 
HORN BREEDERS. 
This Convention was held at Indianapo¬ 
lis, Nov. 27. There rvas a large attendance, 
and most of tho United States and Canadas 
were represented by prominent breeders. 
We have only space to give the results of 
this Convention. Out of it has grown an 
organization to be hereafter known as the 
American Association of Breeders of Hhort- 
Horns, organized under the following 
Constitution : 
The undersigned, breeders of Short-Horn 
cattle, for the purpose of encouraging and 
protecting this Important interest, and to 
increase tho average excellence and pro¬ 
vide for the preservation and dissemina¬ 
tion In its purity of this matchless breed 
for the improvement of American cattle, 
associate ourselves together in the follow¬ 
ing Constitution: 
THE CHILLINGKAM BULL 
The Prince of Wales, whiie staying with 
the Earl of Tankervllle at Chillingham 
Castle, Northumberland, Oct. 10th, spent 
a morning in the chase of the famous wild 
cattle preserved in that extensive park. 
His Royal Highness brought down the king 
of tho herd by a single rifle-shot, It is bullet 
entering the neck and severing the spinal 
cord. It was a tine bull, seven years old, 
and weighing seventy atone. We give an 
illustration of the head of this noble ani¬ 
mal. The color of the head, body and limbs 
is white; the muzzle, hoofs and tips of 
horns are black. The breed, now extreme¬ 
ly rare, exists, we believe, nowhere In En¬ 
gland but at Chillingham; in Scotland it is to 
be found in the demesne of 
Cadyow, at Hamilton, on the ___ 
Clyde. Sir Walter Scott’s 
historical ballad, “Cadyow !$> <> ' - 
Castle,” relating the flight of 
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, 
after tho murder of the Re- — 
gent MURRAY, has the follow¬ 
ing description: ;§g|§|s^ 
“ Through the huge oaks of Evan- 
dale, 
Whose I i in Vis a thousand years 
have worn, 
What sullen roar cornea down the 
gale, 
And drowns the hunter’s pealing 
horn ? 
"Mightiest of all the beasts of 
chase, 
That roam in woody Caledon, 
Crashing tho forest in his race, 
The mountain bull comes thun¬ 
dering on. 
“ Fierce on the hunters’ quivered 
band, 
He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow; 
Spurns, with blaok hoof and horn, 
the sand, 
And tosses high his mane of snow 
“ Aimed well, the chieftain's 
lance has flown; 
Struggling in blood the savage 
lies; 
His roar fs sunk in hollow groan ; 
8ound, merry huntsmen, sound 
the prize! 
The Prince of Wales, as we 
have seen, had a better wea¬ 
pon than the lance or spear to 
use at Chillingham; but the 
wild beast he slew there was 
one of the same kind as that 
which is described by Sir 
Walter Scott. The head has 
bean mounted as a trophy, by 
Mr. Edwin Ward, natural¬ 
ist. It stands boldly out from 
a shield of blue and gold, with 
a most successful effect. 
Salting Farm Stock.—N. 
W. S. is informed that we be¬ 
lieve it promotes, nay, is es¬ 
sential to the health of stock 
that salt be provided where 
animals can have constant and 
free access to it. It is well es¬ 
tablished by scientific investi¬ 
gation that such is the casei 
