968 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



the shelter of a tree hoping that someone will come 

 along that way. This fact as much as anything else 

 has served to earn for the Herefords the admiration, 

 and even affection, of their cow-boy caretakers. 



Uruguay. Here is another place where Here- 

 fords find high appreciation. Uruguay is a fine little 

 country, in marked contrast to the flat and feature- 

 less Argentine plains being made up largely of roll- 

 ing lands, in some parts almost hilly, though nowhere 

 rising into real mountains. Rocks are often seen 

 cropping out of the pastures or rising in good-sized 

 cliff-like walls along the crests of the hills. Uru- 

 guay is a land of springs and many fine small 

 streams, with also a few sizable rivers. We have 

 nothing just like it in North America, although the 

 high country in Texas somewhat resembles it. How- 

 ever Uruguay has a milder climate than Texas, with 

 cooler summers and warmer winters. Uruguayan 

 soils are good, but not so fat as those of the great 

 plains of Buenos Aires. They support perennial 

 grasses with fewer bur clovers and other legumes 

 than are seen in Argentina. Alfalfa pastures are as 

 yet infrequently seen in Uruguay. 



Perhaps because of the more or less hilly nature 

 of the country, perhaps because the pastures are less 

 productive than those of Argentina, the Herefords 

 are the most popular cattle of all breeds tried in 

 Uruguay and are most frequently seen. They appar- 

 ently make more fat on Uruguayan grasses than do 

 the Shorthorns, the nearly universal cattle of Argen- 



