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or a pure bred Hereford. This rule results in nothing less than three- 

 quarter Herefords being admitted to record as single standard Polled 

 Herefords, and as a matter of fact, the bulk of the cattle entered dur- 

 ing the past year are from seven-eighths to thirty-one-thirty seconds 

 pure bred. 



I trust you have it clearly in mind that single standard Polled 

 Herefords are cattle naturally polled and possessing the Hereford mark- 

 ings and type and a very large fraction of pure Hereford blood, but 

 having a slight mixture of alien polled blood from some established 

 polled breed, while double-standard Polled Herefords are pure-bred 

 registered Herefords, which either are freaks of nature (so-called 

 "sports"), or are the progeny of such sports. A double-standard Polled 

 Hereford is nothing more nor les than a pure-bred Hereford, naturally 

 polled or hornless. He sires polled calves with certainty, and is no 

 longer either a product of chance or a creature of accident. 



Now, a word as to the individuahty attained in this new breed. It 

 stands to reason that you can pick a larger number of superior animals 

 from a herd of a thousand than from a herd of a hundred, and since 

 there are relatively so few Polled Herefords (I am speaking always of 

 Double Standards) in existence, no one need expect to find every one 

 a show animal. But this is true in breeding, that when an organism 

 sports or varies from the parent type in a new and pronounced way, there 

 seems to be a breaking up of the old-settled lines of heredity or inherit- 

 ance, and variations in several lines are apt to show up in the resulting 

 progeny. This principle explams the fact that some of our Polled 

 Hereford bulls throw calves far superior to themselves, and when 

 mated with only ordinarily good cows, produce some really excellent 

 progeny. Another fact beyond dispute is that the Herefords as a 

 breed respond most readily to care and management. There being so 

 few Polled Herefords in the country they are all given extra good treat- 

 ment, and this results in bringing out all there is in them as indviduals. 

 In this way we have succeeded in producing what we think are some 

 very creditable specimens. Indeed, a Polled Hereford took second 

 place in the Hereford ring at the Wyoming State Fair last fall. 



We are frequently asked, "How many generations removed from 

 horns are your cattle?" To this we must reply, "Not many." There 

 are bulls whose dams, granddams, aunts and sires are all polled and 

 heifers of the same breeding. Within a few months we expect to have 

 polled calves whose dams, granddams, and great-granddams, sires and 

 grandsires are polled. 



The future of the breed looks rosy. The demand for breeding 

 stock has been phenomenal. We could have sold fifty head where we 



