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other grasses was excellent. Some alfalfa hay was 

 used, and the calves had hay and a little cottonseed 

 during the first winter. The cows, however, got only 

 what the range produced. Having a small range it 

 was considered best to keep the bulls only two years, 

 and as the yearling heifers were never bred there 

 was no chance of in-breeding. High-class bulls were 

 bought and turned on the range at two years of age, 

 allowing four to 100 cows. At four years old these 

 were sold to some of the large ranchers in the west, 

 and there was no trouble whatever in disposing of 

 them. Indeed there was recorded a very active in- 

 quiry. It is the judgment of Mr. Tod that there are 

 few cattle handled and fed in the rough capable of 

 making as fine-finished, high-class, high-priced beef 

 at one or two years old as well as Herefords. 



As proof of the excellence that can be attained by 

 the use of pedigree Hereford bulls with ordinary 

 range cows Fowler & Tod showed at the Interna- 

 tional Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, in 1905, a car- 

 load of calves, a carload of yearlings, a carload of 

 two-year-olds and. a carload of three-year-olds. 

 These four carloads of cattle took three first pre- 

 miums and one second in their respective classes. 

 They were also the champion Herefords, and the 

 three-year-olds were the champion three-year-olds 

 over all breeds. These cattle were all from the same 

 range, and this record was duplicated exactly when 

 four carloads from the same herd were shown at 

 Chicago in 1909. 



Some years later the same firm showed a carload 



