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very short-coupled and low-down; not a very large 

 cow. Her horns today would probably decide a 

 breeder not to show her, and that takes me to some 

 range observations, leading up, among other things, 

 to our decision to dehorn the S. M. S. herd in the 

 face of all sorts of range traditions against it. 



I found that cornbelt buyers, as they looked over 

 the breeding herd, inclined to think that any animal 

 carrying much horn development got it from primi- 

 tive Texas longhorn, and when I argued that the 

 Hereford was basically a breed with much horn de- 

 velopment, as evidenced by the Armour importations, 

 and that English breeders had been slow to follow 

 the American plan of breeding to the modern droop 

 horn, they looked askance. I have been a Hereford 

 man always, but while I do not think Hereford horn 

 development in any way a detriment, it has given 

 the range producer of well-bred whitefaces lots of 

 headache to hear or read the oft-repeated theory 

 that the animal still carries too much primitive blood. 



The Culbertson herd included many daughters of 

 The Grove 3d; also the cow Marcie (by Waxwork) 

 which produced 17 calves, including several sets of 

 twins; Wlltona Grove by Lord Wilton — but I will 

 not burden this story with references to all the 

 famous bloodlines in that wonderful basis of the 

 original Armour herd. The herd bull was Kansas 

 Lad 36832 by Beau Real by Anxiety 4th and out of 

 Bertha by Torro. Then, as now, the blood of 



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