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whatever in giving birth. The cause of 

 abortion and death is unknown to me. 

 The heifer calves obtained breed readily 

 to either the buff do or the cattle. 

 When bred to th? buffalo, the males, 

 which are three-quarters, arc not fertile. 

 The females are perfectly f ?rtils and will 

 breed to either race. I breed them 

 back to the polled Angus stock from 

 which they come, and get males which 

 are fertile and which are half-breeds. 



The type or race of hybrid cattle is 

 now virtually established in a small 

 way and I herewith give you a few of 

 the points of advantage which the 

 "cattelow"'* have over common cattle. 



First, they arc immune from all 

 diseases as far as I have tested them. I 

 know they are immune from Texas 

 Black-Leg and Texas Fever. I have 

 shipped three bulls, one-eighth buffalo, 

 to our coast, the worst tick-country we 

 have. One died and two are living, so 

 I have reason to believe that if they 

 were a little higher in the buffalo blood, 

 they would be entirely immune. 



vSecond, the "cattelow" are much 

 greater in weight, eat much less and 

 hold their flesh better under more 

 adverse conditions. They will easily 

 cut about 70% net of their gross 

 weight. They have a better meat, clear 

 of fibre, and it never gets tough like 

 beef. 



The\' have long and deep backs, 

 enabling them to cut at . least 150 

 pounds moro meat than other cattle. 

 More of them can be grazed on a given 

 area. They do not run from Heel 

 FHes nor drift in storms, but like the 

 buffalo, face the blizzards. They rise 

 on their fore feet instead of their hind 

 feet. This enables them to rise when 

 in a weakened condition. They never 

 lie down with their backs down hill, so 

 they are able to rise qrickly and easilv. 

 This habit is reversed in cattle. 



When a h?rd on range gets weak and 

 poor towards spring, their lying down 

 with their backs towards slopes and on 

 sides of hills causes a loss of from 1% to 

 6%. Every weak cow which so lies 

 down can never get up, unless she is 

 found by the herder. 



The buffaloes have 14 ribs, giving 

 them a longer and deeper loin. As we 

 get them higher and deeper in the 

 buffalo we get the extra rib on the 

 "cattelow." They can exist on less food 

 or salt than cattle, as before stated. 



They could do without water much 

 longer than cattle, without inconven- 

 ience. They are docile, easily broken 

 and never fight. They put on flesh 

 faster than any cattle and will live and 

 appear to do well where cattle will 

 perish. They have many other points 

 in their favor too tedious to mention. 



Genetics Must Come First 



In studying the inheritance of the more simple physical charactsrs in man, it is 

 evident that we are as yet only feeling our way toward the solution of certain 

 larger and more complicated problems which are of vital importance to the human 

 race. The future of eugenics depends very largely on the solution of these prob- 

 lems. I do not wish fdr one moment to suggest that the art of eugenics has been 

 born before its time, but I do feel that before we can venture to apply the scien- 

 tific principles of genetics to human life, we must first make our foundations sure. 

 For this reason, I am convinced that a good deal of spade work in human genetics 

 will have to be done before any considerable amount of practical good can be 

 accomplished in eugenics. Eugenics is simply applied genetics, and sound eugenics 

 can only be founded upon sound genetics. — C. C. Hurst: Mendelian Hereditv in 

 Man (1912). 



^The word is so written in Col. Goodnight's manuscript. The spelling "cattalo" has now been 

 generally accepted, after some years of confusion, and is adopted by practically every authority. 

 It is the preferred spelling of this Association. — The Editor. 



