HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



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give offense to anyone. If I have said anything 

 that is not true, I shall be glad to make the 

 correction at any time. I have tried to make 

 what I have said to you as non-partisan as it 

 was possible to do, and make my meaning un- 

 derstood. 



With best wishes for your board, and all that 

 it implies, and hoping that you may be able in 

 the future to procure judges of note, whose 

 opinions all will respect judges who, as it 

 were, will be blind as to breeds, who can dis- 

 tinguish the true line of merit, let it be ever 

 so delicately drawn, and will hew to the line, 

 then will you have true educators. Then, and 

 not till then, will you have fully accomplished 

 the purpose for which our fat show was created. 



C. M. CULBERTSON. 



Chicago, 111., Jan. 8, 1885. 



IOWA HEARD FROM. 



Editor "Breeders' Journal": We are butch- 

 ers of eight years' experience, and during that 

 time, occasionally getting hold of a grade Here- 

 ford, found by comparison with all others, they 

 were par excellence as beef cattle, giving a 

 larger percentage of the most valuable cuts to 

 the butcher. We notice also a great difference 

 in heft of hides no small item to us. The 

 Hereford's hide is 20 to 30 per cent heavier 

 than scrubs or Shorthorns. This, we believe, 

 in part accounts for their great ability to with- 

 stand cold. These facts led us to breeding 

 Herefords. About four years ago we com- 

 menced quietly saving the best grades we found 

 in our business, and two years ago we crossed 

 them with a Wilton bull, and one year ago 

 we bought four imported cows hard to beat. 

 We have a bull calf from one of them, now ten 

 months old, that is perfect in form, marking 

 and color, and weighs 950 pounds. This is the 

 first thoroughbred dropped to us, and we pride 

 ourselves on our commencement. At our 

 County Fair last fall, with strong competition 

 in Shorthorns, Holsteins, etc., we took sweep- 

 stakes on best cow and got one vote of three on 

 a yearling bull, these all being any age or 

 breed. Herefords are now booming in Guthrie 

 County, where but two years ago Shorthorns 

 were all the rage. 



Yours respectfully, 



D. P.WILLIAMS (fl360). 



Guthrie Center, la., Jan. 28, 1886. 



TEXAS TURNING. . 



Mr. Editor: I write you a few lines about 

 how the Herefords are doing in this country. 



I bought two heifers and one bull of T. L. 

 Miller and a heifer and bull of Tom C. Pont- 

 ing in January. They are very fine and doing 

 well. I have six thoroughbred Hereford bulls, 

 all in fine condition, and thirty-five little 

 whitefaces that are looking fine, and more to 

 come. There is more talk about Herefords this 

 season than ever before. At the convention 

 of the North Texas Cattle Raisers' Associa- 

 tion at Weatherford the hall was beautifully 

 decorated. There was a beautiful Texas star, 

 just back of the President's stand, with two 

 United States flags supported by a point of 

 the star on each side. In the center of the 

 star the most appropriate thing that could 

 have been placed there something that was 

 suggestive of what we are striving for : also of 

 the best breed of cattle, and the breed that is 

 taking the lead and will hold it; the best 

 rustler of all fine blooded cattle and next to 

 the Texas bullock of any breed that has ever 

 been tried in the state was a beautiful pic- 

 ture of T. L. Miller's noted Success bull. Suc- 

 cess to the Convention, success to the business, 

 and success to the Herefords, as the name of 

 the bull indicated. I don't think anything 

 more appropriate could have been put in the 

 place of the picture, as the name of the bull 

 represented all we could ask for. 

 Yours truly, 



W. S. IKARD. (ff361) 

 Henrietta, Tex., Mar. 20, 1886. 



In March, 1887, Mr. Ikard wrote us again as 

 follows : 



"Stock have never wintered better so far in 

 Texas. There will not be any loss in this part 

 of the state to speak of, and from what I can 

 learn stock are wintering equally as well all 

 over the state. My Herefords are doing very 

 well indeed. They are fat enough to butcher, 

 and have not been fed any this winter, winter- 

 ing as well without feed as any common Texas 

 breed of cattle. They are the chief rustlers of 

 any fine breed of cattle that I have ever seen, 

 and they have certainly proved equal to the 

 common Texas bullock as a range animal, rust- 

 ling for his own living. There was but little 

 raised last season, and no feeding done this 

 winter except to work stock." 



MORE FROM TEXAS. 



Mr. Editor: Thinking that you would like 

 to hear from this corner of creation I pen these 

 few lines. I have, up to date, lost five head of 

 the twenty-one cattle that I bought of your 

 townsmen and estimable gentlemen, T L. and 



