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ford cows and bought their first pedigree bulls from 

 Gudgell & Simpson, using since only purebred bulls 

 selected from that herd and from Armour's and 

 Hazlett's. They have, therefore, a lot of the Anxiety 

 blood. Their experience coincides with others who 

 testify to the superior hardiness and general adapta- 

 bility of the Hereford for range uses. They do not 

 breed from bulls of their own production, prefer- 

 ring to keep up fresh infusions from good sources. 

 They graze their young bulls through the summer 

 months, and in the winter give them ground kafir 

 com, cottonseed meal or cake, and hay. Their 

 young cattle are largely sold to feeders in Kansas, 

 Missouri and Illinois. 



John Z. Means. — Something like 250 sections of 

 land in Jeff Davis and Culberson counties on the 

 west side of the Davis Mountains and 350 sections 

 north of Pecos City and lying on both sides of the 

 Pecos River, well equipped for the cattle business, 

 are controlled by Mr. Means. The entire property 

 is valued somewhere around $1,000,000. Replying to 

 queries submitted some time since, Mr. Means wrote 

 the author as follows : 



"I own about 15,000 cattle and prefer the Here- 

 fords because they are good, thrifty cattle of the type 

 best adapted to this dry country. We have not had 

 anything to discourage us in breeding to Hereford 

 bulls, and the more we see of them the better we like 

 them. While we liave never bred any registered 

 bulls, we bought twenty-nine at one time from Gov. 

 John Sparks, and additional ones at different times 

 from northern herds. The first 'white faces' used 

 were from a Mr. Adams of Moffit, Colo., the lot con- 



