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made good records as breeders in other herds may 

 be mentioned Don Juan 11069, Sylvester 11123, 

 Fanatic 27420, Western Eagle 28109, Anxiety Mon- 

 arch 41216, Brainard 41770 and others. 



Best Anxiety Bulls Go To The Range.— With but 

 few exceptions the bull calves by Anxiety 4th were 

 sold to go to the range. There was but a limited 

 demand for herd bulls and a fairly good market for 

 range bulls. It is the belief of these breeders and 

 of their old herdsman, George Shand, that the best 

 Anxiety 4th bull they ever bred, a full brother to 

 Don Carlos, was sold to a ranchman from Texas. In 

 the later years of his service, when he apparently 

 bred best, the cattle business was suffering a great 

 depression and bulls by the carload, mainly the get 

 of Anxiety 4th, were sold to ranchmen such as 

 Charles Goodnight, Towers & Gudgell, and others. 



In-breeding. — The earlier breeding operations in 

 the Gudgell & Simpson herd were conducted much 

 upon the same lines as pursued by various Here- 

 ford breeders, who were religiously abstaining from 

 breeding to close affinities. So scrupulously did they 

 adhere to this policy that for several years they 

 bred the four heifers bought of Mr. Carwardine and 

 sired by old Anxiety 2238 to North Pole. As an ex- 

 periment one of these heifers was bred to Anxiety 

 4th and produced a very fine calf. Under the the- 

 ories that prevailed among Hereford breeders at 

 that time this calf should have been lacking in some 

 respect as compared with calves free from the taint 

 of incestuous breeding. But such was not the case. 



