938 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



calf Vernet Prince 4th, that had been successfully 

 exhibited by W. J. Davis & Son of Mississippi.* J. B. 

 Burkett of Hereford, Tex., gave $750 for the yearling 

 Proctor Onward. Spooner & Son, Mondamin, la., 

 paid $700 for Perfect Donald. On the following 

 day Gudgell & Simpson sold 46 head of females 

 for an average of $232. 



On Oct. 22 0. Harris & Son sold at Harris, Mo., 

 68 head for an average of $373, the 29 bulls aver- 

 aging $518. This good sale resulted largely from 

 the high quality displayed by the get of Gay Lad 

 6th and Eepeater. Gay Lad 12th, by Gay Lad 6th 

 out of a Beau Brummel dam, topped the sale at 

 $2,600, being bought by Johnson Bros, of Colorado. 

 Repeater 18th, just passed twelve months old, 

 brought $2,100 from A. Christensen of Eagle, Colo. 

 Gay Lad 9th was bought by E. H. Taylor, Jr., 

 Frankfort, Ky., at $1,500. Gay Lad 13th and Gay 

 Lad 15th brought $900 each, J. B. Gillette, Marfa, 

 Tex., taking the former and J. E. Thompson, Mar- 

 tinsville, 111., the latter. The top for females was 

 $550 for Princess Repeater, also bought by Mr. Tay- 



*The Messrs. Davis put a herd of purebred Hereford cattle 

 on La Vernet Stock Farm in January, 1910, by the best Prime 

 Lad and Anxiety cows they could get. They placed at the head 

 of the herd the show and breeding bull Point Comfort 14th 337488, 

 now five years old. The calves produced by him have fxilly met 

 their expectations. They bought McCray Fairfax, a great son of 

 Perfection Fairfax, to breed on the daughters of Point Comfort 

 14th, and the few calves to hand demonstrate that this is a good 

 cross. They say: 



"Hereford cattle excel all other beef breeds for this climate. 

 They are great rustlers and great breeding cattle. They stand 

 th'i long summers and fatten in the winters, go out March 1 on 

 grass in good shape and are money-makers and soil-builders. We 

 predict that in less than five years in this climate, where we can 

 produce two crops on the same land, thereby making cheaper 

 feeds and as good cattle, that the south will be able, with Here- 

 ford Cattle, to make beef for the world." 



