FIRST HEREPORbS ON THE RANGE 723 



happened to sight me, and called out to the auction- 

 eer, 'There is a man who has got as well bred bulls 

 as that running by the hundred on his company's 

 rancTi in Texas, and I have seen him buy in the 

 times when he was getting them for from $50 to $60 

 per head.* 



"This method of breeding made a very fine show- 

 ing, and I left a fine white-faced herd of some 10,000 

 head on the Eomero Ranch in the vicinity of Chan- 

 ning, Tex,, when I quit the company's service." 



Mr. H. Glazbrook, the present manager, in re- 

 sponse to an inquiry as to his experience with the 

 Hereford blood says : 



"Since 1903, when I first became connected with 

 this company, I have had considerable experience 

 with Hereford cattle, both on the open range in this 

 state and in the pastures of our Texas ranch. Pre- 

 vious to that, in fact since 1878, 1 had been engaged 

 in the cattle business, mostly in Texas. During 

 those early years we had little but the old longhorn 

 cattle — ^now practically extinct in that state— and 

 no fences. Not much effort was made to improve 

 the class of stock there until the advent of the barb 

 wire fence, at least not in the vicinity where I was 

 ranching, and I thiuk this applies generally to the 

 whole of the state. When attention was given to 

 improving the breed it was approached chiefly 

 through Shorthorns, and there can be no doubt that 

 this blood greatly improved the herds, though it 

 might possibly be said that any good blood would 

 have done so. I do not remember when the Here- 

 ford first made its appearance in Texas and I can- 

 not remember the first Hereford I saw in that state, 

 but when it did come it came to stay. 



"The Hereford is in my opinion best adapted for 

 range purposes, his hardy constitution and 'rust- 



