1078 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



of handling these good cattle has been left upon 

 them. The Herefords of today are what they are 

 by reason only of the skill, or lack of skill, of those 

 who have received them as an inheritance from the 

 generations gone before. And if we may judge of 

 the work of American Hereford breeders as a whole 

 by the type as it exists in our western states as we 

 bring these notes to a conclusion, we may conscien- 

 tiously enter up the verdict : ' ' Well done, good and 

 faithful servants/ 1 



The history of live stock husbandry affords no ac- 

 count of stewardship more honestly, more faith- 

 fully fulfilled. American breeders in particular, 

 prone as they are to be influenced by the coming 

 and going of remunerative prices, and not specially 

 inclined to travel in the footsteps of their fathers 

 in any calling, have certainly in this case kept the 

 faith, conserving loyally the material handed down 

 by those who have gone before. Mindful of the debt 

 they owe both to the past and the future, they have 

 not only upheld the highest standards of the olden 

 days, but possibly have set the mark of finish, 

 breed character, quality and prepotency at levels 

 never heretofore attained. 



But, after all, the most appealing note developed 

 by this narration is that which records the courage 

 and the bravery of the Hereford wherever there has 

 been peril to be faced on cattle ranges! 



Throughout all the world, wherever, in order to 

 improve upon a native stock, there has been a for- 

 lorn hope to. be led whether on the ice-bound banks 



