Dairy Farming: Being the Theory, Practice, and Methods of Dairying (Classic Reprint)

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Far more than any other breed, because the grandest and most fashionable, Shorthorns have become cosmopolitan. They are now found in every civilised portion of the world, and in some portions which can hardly be regarded as civilised. The Shorthorn seems to be the Englishman's shadow - it follows him everywhere. In all countries, if properly cared for, Shorthorns are found to do well. Other breeds, notably the Herefords, have been introduced and extensively bred in other countries, and they too are found to prosper, without such minute care, under the new conditions; while their distinguishing characteristics, being to all intents and purposes stamped with the principle of permanence, so far as such matters can become permanent, do not change in any marked degree. Yet it is probable that foreign soils and climates will modify them somewhat in course of time. Not the least of the merits which English breeds of cattle carry with them to foreign countries is their prepotency - their ability to stamp in a marked manner their own qualities on the offspring of any of the native breeds With which they are intercrossed in such foreign countries; and in this way they are modifying the cattle of the rest of the world in a degree analogous to that in which Englishmen are modifying its manners and institutions.

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