960 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



In summary the Hereford show herds of 1914 

 have acquitted themselves brilliantly. More convin- 

 cing testimony to the successful attainment of ' l white 

 face" ideals in America's eminent nurseries of this 

 breed could not be required. A season's exhibit 



of these bulls that was ever shown at anything except a county 

 fair and he but once at the American Royal, and as neither my- 

 self nor my herdsman had any sort of notion of fitting cattle for 

 the showring our success was limited to getting inside the money. 



"For the first few years after I began with the Herefords I did 

 not cull my females at all, \>ut kept them all for use in the herd, 

 and I kept all the males intact to be sold as bulls. Of course, at 

 this time I sold only to farmers and breeders of grade cattle and 

 the importance of selection had not occurred to me so much up 

 to this time. It was not many years, however, until I became 

 very much interested in the matter of breeding and determined 

 to give it as much thought and attention as was in my power. 

 I decided to eliminate from my herd, through the stockyards, the 

 unworthy males as steers, and the sub-standard females. I have 

 never made much effort to sell females, as I have felt that in 

 order to have a good herd I must keep the best for breeding 

 purposes. 



"I have made comparatively little reputation through the 

 showring, though I have shown with credit the last two or three 

 years at our principal state fairs in the west and at the Ameri- 

 can Royal. I bred and showed the heifer Banza, sired by Beau 

 Beauty. She was the on^v one that ever beat the renowned Scot- 

 tish Lassie until the present year. Banza, with her second calf 

 at foot, was shown at the American Royal this year, winning first 

 place in the new classification "cows in milk or with calf at 

 foot." I have shown quite a number of the get of Beau Beauty 

 and Beau Brummel 10th at the western state fairs and have a 

 good many firsts and championships to my credit in those shows. 



"Speaking of this reminds me that I have omitted to mention 

 another son of the old Beau Brummel which I bought about the 

 time I was getting rid of those three above mentioned. This was 

 Printer, of about the same breeding as Beau Beauty, largely 

 Anxiety 4th and North Pole. I also have one of his sons in my 

 herd and from his use have had more successful show cattle than 

 from other bulls on the farm. His name is Caldo 2d. His dam 

 was by Lucifer, a Beau Brummel-Anxiety 4th bull, bred by Stew- 

 ard & Hutcheon." 



The Hazlett herd is in charge of William Condell, whose por- 

 trait appears elsewhere in connection with those of other promi- 

 nent herd managers. Mr. Condell was born in 1882 at Lake Bluff, 

 111., of Irish and Scotch descent. He was raised at Chicago Heights, 

 111., both places being near the city of Chicago. When he was 

 ten years of age his father bought a herd of Herefords, and since 

 that time William has always been happiest when busy wtih the 

 "white faces." On reaching his majority he determined to iden- 

 tify himself with some good herd and endeavor to render efficient 

 service. On removing to Kansas in 1901 a connection with Mr. 

 Hazlett was formed which has continued to the present time. All 

 who are familiar with the management of the herd, with such 

 cattle as have been exhibited from it, and all who have an ac- 

 quaintance with Mr. Condell will find in the following sentence 

 just about what they would expect from him, in answer to a 

 query as to his methods: "Whatever success I have attained has 

 been through trying to please my employer, and putting self into 

 the work." 



