The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-03
Short Horn Cattle.

This bred of cattle is so named from
the shortness OF the horns which char
acterizes it and has attained distinc
ton and won a substantial appreciation
which no other race has so fully and
widely enjoyed among the enlightened
grazlers of the world. From Great
Britain its dissemination has extended
to the continent to Australia, to South
Africa, South America, Mexico, and
the West Indias. while it has secured
almost monopoly of the importations
of this country and Canada and to every
country where the Anglo-Saxon tongue
| is spoken and in many other countries
that use different language. For the
grass pastures of the Ohio Valley, and
the abundant natural and cultivated
grasses of the broader prairies of the
Mississippi region as well as the great
ranges, it is admirably fitted and held
| in high esteem as the most economical
machine for the speediest conversion
of corn and grass into meat and money.
The original shorthorns occupied the
east of England, Yorkshire and the
valley of the Tees. at the date of the
earliest records of British stock-grow-
| ing. They were various in size, color
and other peculiarities: the dark skin
ned herds of the fens resemo bling the
black cattle of the Holland marsh. and
the finer forms of Yorkshire and Dur
ham assuming the style and quality of
the noted cattle of Holstein and Jutland:
and yet it may not certainly be known
wheth ar the ancient emigrants from
those localities brought this stock to
| England, or whether this similarity is
the result of climate and keeping. 1t
was, at least race very distinct from
that of Ireland and the west of England.
with long horns, thick skins and a
heavy coat of hair, we'll suited for their
protection in climate subject to con
tinuous seasons of rain. 1t is we'll
known in latter times that Dutch and
Danish importations modified these
cattle of the east OF England, and sug-
sested the more recent and greatest
Improvements of BLACKWELL, Charles
and Robert Colling, commencing about
the year of our revolution. and con.
tinued successfully since by Messrs.
Bates, Booth, Townley, Cruickshank
and others in England, and Thorne,
Alexanders, end other distinguished
breeders in this country
i The story of the bull Hubback, the
| founder of the modern short horns, has
often been told He was bred and
raised by Jno. Hunter, one of the most
distinguished breeders in his day. He
was purchased in 1883 by Charles Col.
ling of his brother and Mr.. Waistell
for eight guineas, and is said to have
been from COW raised by poor man
on the highways. 1t has long been a
matter of controversy whether he was
pure bred Teeswater, the short horn Of
that day. He was somewhat below the
usual size of the Teewaters, yellow
red an white in color of a fine compact
form, admiral touch and so easily fat
tened that he early became useless as 8
bull. The COW, also purchased by Col
ling. also acquired fat very easily and
never again bred. Either from mere
curiosity or from suspicion that he
was impalring the constitution OF hi;
animals by by continuous breeding il
too small circle, Colling attempted
the experiment of infusing some of thu
Galloway blood, which was confined, i