700 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



to support their calves and convert the remainder 

 of the feed into first-class beef. 



"As you are aware, I have been breeding Short- 

 horns for years, and I still admire them very much, 

 and have about sixty bulls in use at one of my 

 ranches. At another I am using nothing but pure- 

 bred Hereford bulls. Experience has proved them 

 to be the hardiest and best range cattle I have ever 

 known; and I do not hesitate to say that hereafter 

 I will never buy another Shorthorn bull for range 

 purposes. I have a small herd of thoroughbred and 

 quite a number of high-grade Hereford cows that 

 were out all winter without feed, and today they are 

 in fine condition, most of them being ready for the 

 butcher's block. I also had quite a number of 

 thoroughbred and high-grade Shorthorn cows that 

 fared the same. Some of them died, and none of 

 them are fat yet. I am now breeding them to Here- 

 ford bulls, against the advice of my Shorthorn 

 friends. That I may be fully understood I will say 

 that I intend reserving all my thoroughbred and 

 high-grade Hereford bulls for my own use. My 

 Shorthorns have done me good, and I do not intend 

 to knock them in the head, as Mr. Miller might ad- 

 vise, but I intend putting white heads on them as 

 fast as I can." 



This undoubtedly reflected with accuracy the 

 opinion of a large number of those who were at that 

 date financially interested in range operations. 



It is manifestly impracticable to detail the opera- 

 tions of all those who in the years following this 

 successful test of Hereford endurance, took part in 

 their introduction into the various parts of the range 

 country. The territory covered was too vast and the 

 operations too general to admit of more than pass- 



