1066 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



there a few years, when the better portion of it 

 was sent to the mountains near Delta, Colo., where 

 they are now a part of the herd of the E. J. M. 

 Cattle Company at that place, in which Mr. 

 Keynolds is still interested. 



During the operations in the Panhandle of Texas 

 the firm bought at one shipment fifty registered 

 bulls from the principal Hereford herds of Eng- 

 land. These were turned upon the range. In reply 

 to an inquiry from the author as to the results of 

 the use of the Shorthorn and Hereford bulls upon 

 the LE herd, Mr. Reynolds says : 



"The cattle bearing the LE brand in the Pan- 

 handle were originally Texas cows from the vicinity 

 of Albany, Tex. The first cross on these cows 

 was made with Shorthorn bulls. We used these 

 bulls about two or three years in the herd before 

 they were displaced to any great extent with 

 Herefords, so that we might say the basis 

 of the herd was a cross of Shorthorn blood on the 

 Texas cattle, followed by the Herefords on these 

 cows. There can be no question but what we got 

 good results from this method. 



"I noticed evidence in the herd for many years 

 of the original use of the Shorthorn bulls, even 

 after we had been using exclusively Herefords in 

 the herd. I think the chief evidence of the breed- 

 ing back to the Shorthorn blood, was shown in the 

 diminished size of the horns of our white-faced! 

 cattle, occasional Shorthorn markings on the 

 bodies, such as roans, and occasionally a red spot 

 on the face or nose, which clearly showed the Short- 

 horn strain. We changed to the Herefords on the 

 theory that they were the more hardy animals for 



