984- A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



fancies and eventually the Hereford will again be 

 in the ascendant. ' ' 



Duggan Bros. Mr.- Edward C. Duggan of this 

 firm says: 



"The result of the Hereford crossing is undeni- 

 able to all those who have tested it. We have ex- 

 cellent herds resulting from crosses made with pure 

 Hereford bulls and low-grade Durham cows, and we 

 have also obtained in much less time excellent results 

 with crossings made with pure Hereford bulls and 

 Durham cows of high breeding. It frequently hap- 

 pens that many breeders in order to buy the Here- 

 ford cows separate from their herds all the inferior 

 and useless cows, and placing these with Hereford 

 bulls, wonder afterwards why they did not obtain 

 a product of the 'cold storage ' type and preach 

 to the four winds that the crossing is not good. 

 These gentlemen do not notice, or do not wish to 

 recognize, that these same cows if mated with an 

 excellent Durham bull would never give a superior 

 product, but they expect the Hereford to do in one 

 crossing that which they would not seek from the 

 Durham in five. 



"In a country like ours, which possesses every 

 variety of climate, soil and pasture imaginable, it is 

 a positive fact that in the cattle as well as the sheep 

 there exists practically only one breed in cattle the 

 Durham and in sheep the Lincoln. It is somewhat 

 difficult to determine to what can be attributed this 

 strange anomaly. In the case of the Hereford we 

 think it is mainly due to the slight knowledge of the 

 breed. As the Hereford bull from the first crossing 

 imprints his color on his offspring, it occurs that 

 many persons think that every animal with a white 

 face is a Hereford, although he has nothing else 

 but the aforesaid characteristic. This lack of 



