SHORTHORN BREEDERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 90, 11 July 1879, Page 3

SHORTHORN BREEDERS.

No.t.the Jeast remarkable feature in the "high class shorthorn world (says a writer in the live Stock Journal), is the purity, not of the cattle, but of the breeders. Some wise man says that impurity sticks close between buying and selling ; and certainly it seems to hold true in thebUying and selling of horses ; for now hard it is, even for an honest man, to keep quite straightforward if once he begins to deal in horseflesh? But, to their honor it de--B«fcvis> tq be reoorded, .hitherto short horn breeders have kept themselves pure and above suspicion in all their transactions, publio or private. This were nothing to boast of if there were no temptation, but the temptation is in proportion to the prizes. If V man has a cow which cost him a thousand guineas, and she produces him a, watched bull calf with a black nose, how natural to suppose that he would like to keep it quiet ; or if he i^"£eliin£ off without reserve, does it not require some courage and resistance to evil to tell all aVout the cattle ? I think it does, and I honor shorthorn breeders accordingly. Another thing which commands my admiration is the splendid way in which thi& high class shorthorn business (as distinot from breeding) is conducted. The immortal — for is he not ?-^ John Thornton ascends the rostrum, ' makes a brilliant little —speech, explains. verbally the conditions of eale, and the ball opens. In the space of a few hours he sells property (moveable) to the value may* haft dfte^n or fifteen thousand pounds, and he afterwards collects the pt oef ede -tmd" hands them to the seller/ and all without deed or doou* nieatr between buyer arid seller— a shorthorn breeder's nod is as good ai^sfcond! Just fancy a lawyei set to transact a piece of business like that. Why, it would take the

pen of a ready writer a week to extend the "minutes of agreement he would consider necessary ! But thanks to the noble confidence shorthorn men have in each other, no lawyer has ever to interfere in their bargains ; and long may their honor and their purity in breeding' and in business flourish, unstained and unI _:spected.