. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. t make friends with man or beast. Should you at-tempt to pat him the sign hands olif may be read inevery bristling hair, and if you do not heed it it willbe emphasized by a growl and snap. Jimmy alone maycaress him, and only Jimmys voice will he Jimmy and Harry are not busy they may be foundat the Exchange Building, Jimmy talking and Harrystretched on the floor, his head on his paws and his eyeson his master, taking in every expression of his faceWhen the masters face takes on the on
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. t make friends with man or beast. Should you at-tempt to pat him the sign hands olif may be read inevery bristling hair, and if you do not heed it it willbe emphasized by a growl and snap. Jimmy alone maycaress him, and only Jimmys voice will he Jimmy and Harry are not busy they may be foundat the Exchange Building, Jimmy talking and Harrystretched on the floor, his head on his paws and his eyeson his master, taking in every expression of his faceWhen the masters face takes on the on duty ex-pression, Harry springs up, and when Jimmy mountshis horse he cavorts around the ponys legs with anamount of frisky glee which proves that in his caseall work and no play has not made Jack a dull has no parlor tricks; he cant shake hands,nor jump through a hoop nor beg—and wouldnt if hecould—but for all-round smartness on cattle we recom-mend you to Harry, as grand and intelligent a speci-men of the collie breed as ever heeled a bullock intoline, or headed a flock of EVOLUTION OF CATTLE. The law of the survivalof the fittest holds goodin every kingdom—min-eral, vegetable, was the fittest a fewyears ago is unfit now,THE FOUR-YEAR-OLD. ^nd in accordanco withthis law of shifting necessities we find that withinour memory the whole gamut of cattle has been runthrough in supplying the larder with beef. Short-horns, Holsteins and the Texas steer have each hadtheir day to shine, or rather to tickle the palates ofpeople and princes. But with the change of conditionsregulating profits each of these has passed out in turn,and now the stock breeder will have none of the Texas steer, by inbreeding with successivefashionable breeds, is quickly following the tracks ofthe buffalo to complete extinction. Not many years ago the ponderous steer bred on thewestern prairies was the best selling beef animal in theworld. He was wanted by export
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