Year: 1878

Il must BE admitted that Just now the
short horn business resembles q patient
whoee physic has disagreed With him, or
abean.stalk after the first fros, has fallen.
Men are too apt 10 take . discoursging
view Of the prospecta Their impressions
come like the fragments of routed army
to the point Of rendezvous. The first
that arrive are sure to be "all that are
left of the whole division" BY and by
the saved appear in such numbers as to
make you wonder at the smallnes of the
los. Let there be steadiness all around
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
or the Office. Their cattle came to be
called the royal family, when the blood
was no bluer than that of the Others
that were not pushed to the front. This,
applied to men, begets unhealthfulness
and affection. Out Of affiiction grows
publication. The physic mus. pain ere
II gives relief. After frosted leaves we
look for well.filled pods of ripened seed.
There IL no need of other than a
cheerful outlook for the short horn bust.
ness. The average three year old Texan
steer is worth twelve TO twenty dollars
the average native but little more while
the shorthorn of the same age brings
seventy to eighty dollars. The demand
for meat Ia greater than ever before.
Can It be, then, that men are engaged in
furnishing stock to bring up the standard
Of value In our native cattle, OF which
there is such apparent need, will fail ?
We think not. The failures We now have
to regret is the result of speculation.
pursuit of false ideas, and the contrac.
tion Of the currency.


The effect will be TO level and lower the
prices, which were inflated beyond rea.
son. We shall have no more forty.
thousand-dollar COWS, but rood ones win
sell for their real value. There will he
no more top loitical handsprings into
fortune, and we hope no more disastrous
tumbling: Lower prices will stimulate
the use OF short-horn cattle. MANY are
the farmers who will buy q hundred.
dollar COW, but could not compass one at
fve hundred.


Again, the good resulting from the
present break up" will be a leyelinr of
good families of short.horns. Men will
select breeding animals from the fsmilie,
that bring the heaviest carcasses TO the
hooks, whether these be found in the
herds OF one Of the cattle kings,n 80
called, or in that Of fsome humble breeder.
There will be q new deal, in which ali
pure bred cattle win have a show. We
do not mean by this that bad or deficient
pedigrees will be recognized. The pedi.
gree must be both true and good. The
animal must be good and of undisputed
lineage. There are very many families
that possess these requirements. Some
are better than others in individual
worth; these will of course bring com.
paratively higher price, but will not
hereafter rirc to the unapproachable
fancy" To illustrate, take late sale
where an animal that once sold for 81 900
brought 500 under the hammer. The
former vas fancy; the latter real. Re.
action always overdoes what 1t is meant
TO correct. This is the case now. Fine
cattle Of approved breeds are worth more
than they are bringing at present. They
VIII improve, but only up to the point
Of real worth.-Fdrmes' Home Journal