Our State Society discriminated in favor of
Shorthorns by giving them larger premiums,
and thus, by inference, declaring to the world
that they were the better cattle. They sub-
mitted the question of merit between the breeds
to men selected from or by the Shorthorn breed-
ers to act as judges. The question then as to
the merits and demerits of breeds was here open-
ed; we had to accept of it, and when they claim-
ed a half century’s acceptance of their cattle as
evidence of merit over the Herefords, it compell-
ed us to go back of the merits of the individuals
as they stood upon the show grounds and in-
quire as to the methods by which the Short-
horns had obtained their endorsements. We
have placed the result of these examinations
before our readers and the world. On these
facts we appealed to the cattle raisers of Amer-
ica and the verdict has been reversed; the
Herefords are now accepted as the best and
have taken the place among the cattle breeders
of the country to which their merits always
entitled them. Such a revelation could hardly
be accepted without more or less bitter feeling ;
it was to be expected that the Shorthorn breed-
ers and advocates, with their associates, certain
editors of live stock journals, finding the facts
against them, should resort to vindictive and
bitter personal attacks to cover the weakness
of their position.
