958 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



This bare summary of the battlelines of the 1914 

 show herds would be incomplete without the state- 

 ment that from coast to coast and far into the south 

 the banner of the breed was proudly carried. The 

 Vermont and Virginia fairs staged exhibits that 

 occasioned favorable comment and at some of the 

 southern shows, notably at the Tri-State Fair at 

 Memphis, the breed was surprisingly prominent. 



centage of Anxiety 4th blood. The dam of this young bull, which 

 had been named by the man from whom I bought him Major 

 Beau Real, was by Stonemason by Beau Real, so that the first 

 calf I used was a line-bred Anxiety 4th bull. This second bull 

 was Bernadotte 2d, and he proved to be quite a good sire. I used 

 these two bulls for several years, in the meantime having bought 

 now and again a few females without much thought as to their 

 breeding. 



"Up to this time what J had done was without any real rea- 

 son. It just happened that I had Anxiety 4th lines, as I really 

 knew nothing of the science of breeding or for that matter of 

 the prominent families among Herefords. Having daughters of 

 these two bulls in my herd by this time and having the idea that 

 is very prevalent — whether correct or not — that I ought to go 

 outside for some fresh blood or a different line of breeding, X 

 bought a Columbus bull. Dale Duplicate 2d. He was, I think, a 

 little more than a half-brother to the champion show bull 

 Dale, with whose history you are entirely familiar. I disposed of 

 both the old bulls. I also bought another from a popular family 

 at that time, by Improver out of a Corrector dam. Another one 

 ■1 tried was as close to The Grove 3d as I could l.nd, having learned 

 that The Grove 3d was considered by many a great sire. I used 

 these bulls until their get were in the neighborhood of two years 

 old and decided that I did not like the results I wss getting. 

 Whether this was the fault of the out-crossing or simply that it 

 was not the proper nick with my cows, I am not prepared to say. 

 I only cite the fact here that I did not get the results I hoped for 

 and soon disposed of all three of these animals. 



"In the meantime I had been trying to inform myself to as 

 great an extent as possible in regard to the Herefords that seemed 

 to give the best results from a breeder's point of view. This, to- 

 gether with the experience I had had, led me to return to the 

 Anxiety 4th line of breeding through Beau Brummel bulls and 

 cows. The next bull which I used was Beau Beauty, sired by 

 Beau Brummel out of an Anxiety 4th-North Pole dam. I bought 

 an entire herd of between fifty and sixty head in order to secure 

 another son of Beau Brummel — Beau Brummel 10th, whose dam 

 was much stronger In the blood of Anxiety 4th than the dam of 

 Beau Beauty. Up to this time those two have been my chief 

 stock bulls. Beau Brummel 10th Is dead and I am. using one of 

 his sons, Beau Sturgis 2d, with good results. While Beau Beauty 

 is living. I am using one of his sons also, Zelpho, on the daugh- 

 ters of Beau Brummel 10th, with very satisfactory results so far. 



"I omitted one fact In connection with my herd bulls and that 

 is this: I used a son of Bernadotte 2d of my own breeding for 

 several years and still have a number of his daughters In my 

 herd. This bull was Protocol 2d. He was a very large and very 

 smooth bull, weighing at twenty-four months of age 2,000 pounds, 

 and as a three-year-old 2,600 pounds. Protocol 2d Is the only one 



