974 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



" Third: That a portion of the original native 

 cattle, before and during the time of grading, pos- 

 sessed white heads (such animals being named 

 'pampa' put here), and that these 'pampas' are 

 much disliked. And as the Hereford with his strong 

 generic prepotence gave white heads even in the 

 first cross, these two different classes of white heads 

 were mixed up by an ignorant population. ' ' 



Argentine Breeders Testify. The fact that Ar- 

 gentina now looms so large in the matter of the 

 world's beef supply, has led the author to endeavor 

 to assemble the views of leading advocates of the 

 Hereford in that country. The courtesy of our 

 southern neighbors is proverbial. Some of the 

 wealthiest and most deeply-engrossed of those who 

 have stood by the Hereford cattle in the Argentine, 

 in the face of many discouragements, have done us 

 the honor to reply at length and in most interesting 

 fashion to our inquiries as to the status of the 

 " white faces" in the great South American repub- 

 lic. In view of the interest now attaching to the 

 evolution of the cattle business in that country we 

 feel that no more interesting contribution to con- 

 temporary cattle literature can be made than the 

 submission herewith of liberal extracts from trans- 

 lations of their replies. 



Cabana San Juan. Reference has already been 

 made to Don Leonardo Pereyra as the pioneer im- 

 porter. The fact that his holdings of Herefords 

 upon various estancias had extended up to 30,000 

 head at the time his statement was made lends 

 weight to the following language: 



