HISTOKYOF HEEEF(3Kr)CATTLE 



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them so admirably managed as those under 

 Mr. Morgan's care. 



I would here respectfully suggest that the 

 Hereford breeders pay some compliment to Mr. 

 Miller when he returns to this country, in ac- 

 knowledgment of the very valuable assistance 

 he has rendered to them in creating a demand 

 for their pedigree animals, which, although of 

 great and unprecedented proportions, is now 

 only in its infancy. T. Duckham. 



Baysham Court^ Boss, Aug. 17, 1880. 



marbled to perfection, after one, or sometimes 

 two winters' feeding in stalls, with ground feed. 

 I have in mind now, one pair of them that I 

 slaughtered, one of which made eighty pounds 

 and the other eighty-one pounds of dressed 

 meat, hide and tallow, to the 100 pounds alive. 

 Those ,were oxen of six to seven years old, and 

 had been worked before feeding. I notice, how- 

 ever, that now-a-days your prize steers beat it, 

 but for that day I considered it extra fine. So 

 you will readily see that twenty-five years ago 



SAMPLE OF A MODEL, RANGE HERD. 



A HARTFOED (CONN.) BUTCHER's EXPERIENCE 

 (1881). 



The following is an extract, from the letter 

 of a gentleman in Dakota, and it will be no- 

 ticed, that from cutting and marketing, he has 

 had an experience that sustains the position we 

 have taken as to the quality of Hereford beef: 



"For many years at Hartford, Connecticut, 

 my old home and birthplace, I handled very 

 many fine cattle, and was for many years in the 

 marketing business, and in that rich city, cut 

 up many prize cattle and always cut first-class 

 beef. But in those days, from 1852 to 1862, 

 I used to get some Hereford cattle, fed by Con- 

 necticut valley, farmers, and they were always 

 superior beef to the Durhams, or the noted 

 Connecticut red oxen of that day. Fat and lean 



T preferred the Herefords to anything for fine 

 beef animals. But enough. I am now up here 

 in the richest valley in the United States, which 

 aside from wheat is to -be a great stock country 

 in the future. I am just getting a stock farm 

 started to make Hereford teef.'' 



A MARYLAND BREEDER'S EXPERIENCE. 



John Merryman was one of the oldest breed- 

 ers of Hereford cattle, and thus stated his ex- 

 perience : 



At the Kew York State Fair, held at Water- 

 town, in 1856, I purchased from Messrs. A. & 

 H. Bowen, a yearling bull. Catalpa, and a 

 heifer. Lilac. My next purchase was from Mr. 

 Sotham, and consisted of thirteen cows and 

 heifers, and two bulls, including Blenheim. 1879. 



My next purchase was from the State Board 



