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1,260 pounds each. The lightest, a heifer that 

 had suffered severely' from pinkeye and had 

 been on grass all summer, was sold to a Chi- 

 cago butcher for eight cents a pound, amount- 

 ing to $81.20. I sold two others for $1,65 and 

 the heaviest one for $100, which (to me at 

 least) are satisfactory dividends on my $12 

 Texas cow investment, topped by a Hereford 

 cross. 



I have bred some good Shorthorn grades on 

 the range, and have taken more prizes at fat 

 stock shows with them than any other ranch- 

 man in the land. In fact, the only time 

 my Shorthorn grades ever met defeat was when 

 they came in competition with a carload of 

 range cattle that had Hereford blood in their 

 veins. The moment I saw them I knew defeat 

 was inevitable, and I received a second pre- 

 mium very complacently. I have never seen any 

 Shorthorn grades from the range that could 

 compare with grade Herefords, either for 

 weight or quality off' grass, or that would bring 

 as much per pound when sent to market, and 

 these are the reasons why I prefer the White- 

 faces. Furthermore, I am willing to show half- 

 breed Herefords, out of these little $12 Texas 

 cows, against an equal number of half or even 

 three-fourths bred Shorthorns, owned and bred 

 on the range by exhibitor, at any railroad point 



within fifty or 100 miles from Caldwell, for a 

 purse of $500, the money to be donated to any 

 charitable enterprise the exhibitors or judges 

 may designate. 



Mr. Rust claims 1 have conceded his position 

 as correct, though he knows such is not the case. 

 In my last I showed that it was simply ridicu- 

 lous to claim that one breed was as hardy as 

 another, and gave good reasons for this conclu- 

 sion, namely, the manner in which they (the 

 breeds) have been bred and reared, not for the 

 past twenty-four hours or twenty-four weeks, 

 as Mr. Rust teaches, but for generations, or a 

 term of fifty or one hundred years. 



I further assigned reasons why the Short- 

 horns in particular were inferior to other breeds 

 when put to the test on the open range. I stated 

 that "the majority of Shorthorn breeders had 

 followed the family or fashion craze for years, 

 breeding pedigrees in-an-in, and individual 

 merit, constitution and vitality out, until the 

 country was flooded with wheezing, coughing 

 weeds unfit for use in any herd." If this is 

 conceding the correctness of Mr. Rust's opinion 

 (and he has so stated) therev is certainly no need 

 of further argument. I therefore respond to 

 his courteous ''good-by" with an humble bow 

 and a hearty farewell shake. 



W. E. Campbell. 



