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A STUDY OF FARM ANIMALS 



out a high percentage of carcass to offal. The cows of the 

 breed are inferior milkers, as a rule, though yielding an excel- 

 lent grade of milk. In disposition Herefords tend to be 

 more or less nervous and restless as compared with the Short- 

 horn and are not so well suited to stable confinement. 



The quality of "rustling," as they say in the West, 

 fine constitution, and ability to make early beef, have made 

 the breed extremely popular in the range country in the 

 United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia. Among 

 the popular families are the Anxiety, Beau Donald, Corrector, 

 Disturber, March On, Perfection, and Prime Lad. High 

 prices have been paid for Herefords, and in 1917, 1918, and 



Figure 82. An exhibitor's herd of Herefords at the fair. Photograph from 

 The Farmer. 



1919 very high prices prevailed. In 1919 Mousel Brothers, 

 of Nebraska, sold 50 head for an average price of $3,845, and 

 in 1919 W. T. McCray, of Indiana, sold 120 head for an 

 average of $3,635, the record for any breed of cattle. In 

 1919 the bull Richard Fairfax was bought by Ferguson 

 Brothers, of Minnesota, for $50,000, then the world's record 

 price for a bull. Two bulls sold in 1918 in England, one, 

 Ringer, for $45,000 and the other, Resolute, for $40,000. 



Polled Hereford cattle of much merit are bred to-day in 

 large numbers. This line of breeding first started with grade 



