FIRST HEREFORDS ON THE RANGE 699 



years as the home of the show bulls Fortune and Sir 

 Evelyn. During the years 1883 and 1884 Mr. Hawes 

 sold $50,000 worth of purebred Herefords. 



Major Campbell had considerable interests on the 

 range, and engaged with great enthusiasm in the 

 breeding and handling of pedigree Herefords, buy- 

 ing liberally from the best herds further east and 

 exhibiting at the Kansas fairs. One of his best 

 known bulls was The Equinox 2758. 



Hereford Endurance Demonstrated. The winter 

 of 1880-81 was of exceptional severity and losses on 

 the range were heavy. This was particularly true 

 of the " pilgrims, ' ' as the trail herds recently from 

 the south and turned out on the northern ranges 

 were commonly called. The testimony that followed 

 was very largely to the effect that the mortality 

 among the Shorthorns had been greatly in excess of 

 that in the case of the Herefords ; and the fact that 

 the "white faces" had passed through this ordeal 

 so successfully now made them hot favorites 

 throughout all parts of the range country. 



Writing in June, 1881, Major Campbell said : 



"The question is not which is the best beast, the 

 Shorthorn, the Hereford or the Texas bull, but 

 which is the best rustler and most profitable range 

 animal. It does not matter to us what breed of cattle 

 has been most successful in the feedyard or show- 

 yard, for we are interested in neither. What we 

 want to know is which breed is best adapted for 

 range purposes and range purposes only, and all 

 this talk about valuable milking qualities amounts 

 to nothing with ranchmen. In fact, they do not want 

 heavy milkers, but cattle that will give enough milk 



