Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-02-28
LIV I ST K.
TIE sHoRT-HoRN OUTLOOK.

1b must DE admitted tnaC just now the
Short-horn business resembles a patient
whose physic has disagreed with him, or a
bean stalk after the first frost has fallen.
Men are to apt to take a discouraging view
of the prospects. Their impressions come
like the fragments of a routed army to the
point of rendezvous. The first to arrive are
sure to be "all that are left of the whole di-
vision" By and by the saved appear in
such numbers as to make you onder at the
.smallness of the loss. Let there be steadi-
ness all round. No undue excitement. No
panic. There have been usurpers on the
throne. Men came to be called "Short-horn
kings when they were not entitled to the
name of the office. Their cattle came to be
called the royal family, when their blood
was no bluer than that of others that were
not pushed to the front. This applied to
men begets unhealthiness and af1iiction.
Out Of affection grows publication. The
physic must pain ere it gives relief. After
the frosted leaves we look for we'll filled
pods of ripped seed.
There is no need OF other than a cheerful
outlook for the Short-horn business. The
average three-year-old Texan steer is worth
twelve to twenty dollars while the Short
morn of the same age brings seventy to
eighty dollars. The demand for meat is
greater than ever before. Can it be, then,
that men engaged in furnishing stock to
bring up the standard of value in cur native
cattle, OF which there is such apparent need,
foil Wa think NOT Tho foiIurpS wa hava
to regret, are the result of speculation, pur-
suit of false ideas, and the contraction of the
currency.
The effect will be to level and to lower
. the price which We're inflated beyond rea-
son. We shall have no more forty thousand
.dollar-cows, but good ones will sell for their
real value. There will be no more top
loftical h~andsprings into fortunes, and we
hope no more disastrous tumbling. Lower
prices will stimulate tue use of Short-horn
cattle. Many are the farmers who will buy
a hundred-doilar COW, but could not com-
pass one at five hundred.
Again, the good resulting from the pres
.ent ''break-up" will be a leveling of good
families of Short~horns. Men will select
breeding animals from the families that
bring the heaviest carcasses to the hooks,
whether these be found in the herds of one
of the ''cattle kings SO called, or in that of
some humble breeders. There will be a
new deal in which all pure bred cattle will
have a show. We do not mean by this that
bad or deficient pedigrees will be recogniz-
.ed. The pedigree must be both true and
good. The animal must be good and Of I'M
disputed lineage. There are very many
families that possess these requirements.
Some are better than others in individual
worth these will, of course, bring a com-
paratively high price, but will not hereafter
rise to the unapproachable fancy" To
Illustrate, take a late sale where an animal
that once sold $1,000 brought 500 under
the hammer. The former was fancy, the
latter real. Reaction always overdoes what
it is meant to correct. This is the case now.
Fine cattle of approved breeding are worth
more than they are bringing al present. They
will improve, but only up to the point of
real worth.-Home Journal.
CROSSES 0F Jersey BLOOD.
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