770 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



ranch solely, the young steers being sold at one and 

 two years old, when their fine quality with uniform 

 color and white faces commanded at all times the 

 top prices. They were frequently exhibited and a 

 great many prizes were won at the Chicago, Kan- 

 sas City and Fort Worth shows. 



Mrs. Whitman,* now Mrs. F. H. Kreismann of St. 

 Louis, bears this testimony as to the good results 

 following the use of the Hereford bulls in the Tas- 

 cosa herd: 



"As is well known the Hereford blood has always 

 been very prepotent and the greater percentage of 

 calves bred from purebred bulls and off-colored 

 cows will be white-faced. But again, as the quality 

 of the cattle on the ranch became finer and finer 

 they lost some of the hardihood of the Texas rang- 

 ers, and more care in the way of feed and shelter 

 had to be given them. But this extra outlay and 

 expense was more than made up by the much greater 

 price which the young stock commanded. By selling 

 off every year as many of the off-colored and in- 

 ferior cows as possible without reducing the herd 

 too much, and keeping for breeding purposes only 

 such young heifers as markedly showed the Here- 

 ford strain, the herd in a few years was so much im- 

 proved and so decidedly ' Hereford' that it became 

 one of the show herds of the Texas Panhandle. " 



*Mrs. Whitman, a woman of high intelligence, had a deep 

 personal interest in cattle-breeding. For a number of years she 

 was frequently seen at the leading cattle sales and shows, often 

 finding upon these occasions a congenial spirit in Mrs. Kate 

 Wilder Cross, widow of C. S. Cross of Sunny Slope Farm, Em- 

 poria, Kans. 



Speaking of the quality of the bulls bought for service on 

 this ranch, John Gosling writes: "During the time of Mrs. Whit- 

 man's ownership I furnished her ranch with as many as eighty 

 bulls in a season, which included in three consecutive years the 

 entire crop by the famous bull Painter, a son of Beau Brummel. 

 Painter was owned by W. W. Gray, Fayette, Mo., and later by 

 Mr. Robert H. Hazlett of Eldorado, in whose hands he finished 



