Excerpt from Fifty Years Among Shorthorns: With Over 300 Pen Pictures of Notable SiresMY first acquaintance with Shorthorns was made more than fifty years ago, when three animals I then saw made a strong impression upon me. These animals, in the Broadland herd, were the bull Orbliston calved 1847, and the two cows, Jenny Lind by. Jacob calved 1845, and Young Louisa by Major a bull calved in 1840. All the three animals attracted my attention, especially the cow Jenny Lind. She was a beautiful light roan, with horns curving downwards over her face. So deep an impression did this cow make upon me, that for many years she stood out as being my ideal of perfection of a Shorthorn cow.N O doubt such an Opinion was only in keeping with common experience, which often tends towards unfair criticism of present-day animals when comparing them with those of bygone days. It is a well-known fact that it is hard to divest one's mind of early impressions, and to form an unbiassed opinion regarding the comparative merits of animals under consideration and those seen early in life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.