LINCOLN RED SHORTHORN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 627, 13 December 1913, Page 6

LINCOLN RED SHORTHORN.

The Lincoln Red Shorthorn is steadily improving its position in the Old Country, according to recent files. The disadvantages of recent creation as an independent, breed are diminishing in the face of proved utiltiy and prepotency. The big framed, massive red cattle of the premier farming county seem destined to have a great future. Progress has been continuous and rapid since the breed was established upon an independent footing, and the preceding at the sale at Lincoln recently show that it had made for itelf a place of prominence among the most useful of the many varieties. There were not many fancy prices only three reaching or exceeding 100 guineas but an average of £29 for 21 head is a very creditable record for a breed that has not yet qualified for the beat foreign markets. The Red Lincoln Shorthorn is proving itself very useful for crossing with other breeds. In colour and type it possesßes the impressiveness of an antiquity far beyond its periods of separate existence. Its quality of reproducing in ita offspring its rich deep colour is greatly in ita favour at Home, and will be still more effectual in promoting its popularity bar when its prepotency is better known.