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used in a horned herd. In the average of many years it will probably 

 run about fifty per cent. When mated with polled cows with this same 

 amount of polled blood, such a bull will sire from 75 to 100 per cent 

 polled calves. In-bred or line-bred bulls are, of course, more prepotent 

 in dehorning than are others. There is as much certainty in results to be 

 anticipated by the Polled Hereford breeder as by any other class of 

 breeders. We have not repealed the laws of inheritance, we are but using 

 them to our own advantage. 



Concluding, allow me to suggest, with all due respect to every 

 other worthy breed, that we have in Hereford cattle one of the thriftiest, 

 hardiest, "hustlingest" and most profitable breeds of beef cattle in ex- 

 istence, a breed that feeds magnificently, matures very quickly, has a 

 quiet, docile temperament, breeds surely and prepotently, bears a fa- 

 mous trade mark in its clean white face, and can acquit itself with 

 honor anywhere. It is faulty in one essential, its heavy horns. If we 

 eliminate this fault we can match the Galloway for hardihood, the Angus 

 for finish or the Shorthorn for scale. The day is not far distant when 

 all beef cattle will be polled. Men will produce what other men will 

 pay for, and the other men are paying more liberally for hornless cattle. 

 The Angus and Galloways have been polled as long as we have any 

 knowledge of them, the Shorthorns produced the Polled Durhams not 

 many years ago, and now the last, though not the least, of the great 

 beef breeds is being dehorned by science instead of the saw. Hereford 

 men have now the opportunity to remove the most glaring fault from 

 their cattle, and do it at a profit. Surely one is not very wrong to sug- 

 gest such an improvement here in the heart of the Hereford country. 

 Gentlemen, I thank you. 



THE MANAGEMENT OE A PURE-BRED HERD. 



(E. B. Mitchell, Ollnton, Mo.) 



As this topic covers such a vast area and is governed by so many 

 conditions over which we have no control, it would seem that there 

 could be no rule that will apply to dififerent localities. 



However, the first thing to be taken into consideration would be 

 the object we expect or hope to obtain, and it seems to me that in this 

 progressive age of high-priced land and labor there should be but one 

 place to strive for, and that is as near the top as possible. It matters 

 little how successful you may be as compared with your fellow-breeder, 

 or how nearly you may think you can reach the pinnacle of success, there 



