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HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



bred at Bow Park, Canada, the first of which 

 we wouid mention is the Earl of Airdrie 3d, out 

 of Rose of Racine, by Imported 4th Dulie of 

 Clarence, the latter of which is the purest bred 

 Duchess bull in existence and cost m England 

 the snug little sum of $13,000. The Earl of 

 Airdrie is a solid red, unusually large for 4iis 

 age, and of great bone and substance. Next 

 comes Gauntlet, a rich roan-colored yearling, 

 sired by the same famous animal, out of San- 

 pareil 12th. Gauntlet was shown when a calf, 

 at all the leading fairs, both in Canada and 

 the United States, taking the silver medal at 



Heeefords. — Now, having briefly made men- 

 tion of a few of the most noted Shorthorn 

 males in use on this ranch, we will also briefly 

 notice the Hereford part of the herd, and in 

 doing so think it sufficient to merely mention 

 that they are the best that money would buy, 

 the most of them being the get of T. L. Miller's 

 Imported Success, Seventy-six and other im- 

 ported bulls, costing way up in the hundreds 

 per head. There is a great controversy going 

 on between cattle men as to the relative merits 

 of the breeds, and having handled Shorthorns 

 all my life, I am naturally prejudiced against 



GRADE YEARLING HEIFERS IN THE ADAIR HERD. 

 J. A. Brand, Panhaodle ot Texas. 



Ottawa, offered by the Governor-General for 

 the best calf of any kind in the Dominion, and 

 has also taken the first premium wherever 

 shown. There are too many of these pure and 

 excellently bred Shorthorn males in this herd 

 to give anything like a minute description of 

 all of them; we will, therefore, merely mention 

 one other, and pass to the Herefords. That 

 one is Prince Arthur, which is in all probabil- 

 ity the purest bred animal on the continent; 

 resembling in form a huge Berkshire pig. 

 Prince Arthur is out of Princess Royal, Im- 

 ported, by Vanguard, out of the grand Manta- 

 iine tribe. 



Herefords to some extent, but since experiment- 

 ing with them on the range for the past year 

 I must admit that the Herefords are unques- 

 tionably the best "wrestlers." We are now 

 separating the males and cows, and I only wish 

 the editor of tlie "Journal" was here to pass his 

 opinion upon the relative merits of each breed. 

 I will state, however, that wdiile the Durhams 

 are in fair flesh the Herefords are rolling fat, 

 and that each have had the same opportunities 

 and facilities; except, it is claimed bv the herd- 

 ers, that notwithstanding the better condition 

 of the Herefords that they have done more 

 service during the season than have the Dur- 



