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HISTORY OF HEEEFORD CATTLE 



T. E. Miller. I have been breeding Herefords 

 now about nine years, having bought five head, 

 three bulls and two heifers, nine years ago in 

 8an Antonio, Texas, of Mr. T. E. Miller, and 

 can say, not boastingly, hut with truth and 

 candor, that I think Herefords are the cattle 

 for the range. My grades stand it better than 

 even the native Spanish cattle. I arn a true 

 friend to the Herefords, and hope to see them 

 universally used as a beef producing animal. 

 The people here are taking to the whitefaced 

 cattle right along. All seem to want them, but 

 the price somewhat scares most of them. They 

 are used to buying other and less desirable 

 cattle much cheaper, and they are loth to pay 

 a good price for a good animal, but it pays 

 better to pay a good price for a good animal 

 than to get a mean one given to you. I have 

 said all I can say in their favor, and none too 

 much, and I hope to see them crowned king, 

 which I don't think will be long now. The 

 black Muley, Durham, Devon, and all others 

 will have to take a back seat; they cannot shine 

 when they come in contact with the Herefords. 

 Long may the "Journal" flourish. I am well 

 pleased with the paper. 



Yours truly, 



F. 0. Skidmoke. 

 Arkansas, Texas, Mar. 30, 1886. 



TEXAS GETTING HEKEFOEDIZED, 



I have handled Hereford cattle for two years, 

 and have during that time found that when it 

 comes to rustling they have not only shown 

 the ability to down the Shorthorn and other 

 improved breeds of cattle, hut they can suc- 

 cessfully hold their own with our native Texas 

 cattle, which have always been admitted to be 

 the rustlers par excellence. 



The winter of 1885 we had five Shorthorn 

 bulls at the pen and five Herefords. The Short- 

 horns were good average specimens of the 

 Shorthorns, the Herefords were four registered 

 ones, and a bull from old Success, but cannot 

 say if he is recorded. The Durhams were fed 

 oats twice per day with all the cotton seed they 

 could eat, the Herefords were fed once a day 

 and sometimes not that, for whenever a bulling 

 cow would come near the pens the Herefords in- 

 variably took out after her and would not return 

 for two or three days, hut Mr. Durham could 

 not be tempted to leave the sunny side of a 

 corn crib by a herd of bulling cows whilst a 

 norther was blowing, and would alwavs be on 

 deck at meal time with unfailing regularity. 



In the following spring the Herefords came 

 out fat, strong and hearty and by March 1st 



were out on the range busy as bees. The Dur- 

 hams were also turned out, but they were far 

 from being fat, in fact they were not even m 

 good fix, and later in the season when the 

 warm weather set in, one had no trouble in 

 finding out which breed of cattle, the Durham 

 or Hereford, could stand the heat best, as the 

 former sought the most shady places in the 

 pasture, and stayed there; but the Herefords 

 kept on chasing cows all over the range, and 

 seemed to mind the heat but little, and they 

 just got about 70 jjer cent of the calves gotten. 

 Last week I brought these same bulls home for 

 the winter, and the Herefords, after an un- 

 usually hard summer's work, look first rate, the 

 Success bull Joe being as fat as the steers are 

 on the same range (and cattle are in fine shape 

 here at this time) whilst the Durhams loolc 

 like a good many bushels of "4 bit" oats will 

 have to be pumped into them before they will 

 be in half the shape the Herefords are now. I 

 would like some admirer of Durham cattle as 

 range cattle to notice the vast difference there 

 is in the grade Hereford and the grade Short- 

 horn calf raised on the range, and if that don't 

 convince him of the superiority of the Here- 

 ford I don't know what will. 



The range raised Hereford calf of seven 

 months is a big lusty fellow, with a beautiful 

 red body and white face, whose sole object 

 seems to be how big he can grow and how fat 

 he can keep, and he "gets there," too, whilst 

 the grass raised Durham is a long haired, miser- 

 able looking fellow, who grows, too, but mostly 

 in length of leg and poorness, and who doesn't 

 confine himself to the red color of his aristo- 

 cratic Kentucky sire, but mostly catches on to 

 the plebeian brindle, black or yellow of his 

 Spanish mother, and it is from her that he 

 inherits what few good qualities he has. 



The day is coming when Texas will send 

 out many a train load of whitefaced steers, 

 as Texas is a grass country from way back, and 

 all that a Hereford wants is a trial and plenty 

 of grass. Given these, he will be sure to please. 

 This section is fast getting Herefordized, but 

 it will take time, as there are lots of Durham 

 cattle here whose owners are going to "wait and 

 see." Yours, " A. M. White. 



Woodward's Ranch, Milam f'o,, Tex., Oct 29 

 1886. ■ 



EARLY STRUGGLES IN NEW ENGLAND. 



Mr. Editor: In accordance with your ex- 

 pressed wish, I send you a short article upon 

 that — to us — important topic, "Herefords in 

 l\'ew England." But first allow me to ask the 

 leniency of your readers for so brief an article 



