964 A HISTORY OF fiEREFOBD CATTLE 



own plants at Buenos Aires, and are also entering 

 the Australasian field. They have been forced to do 

 this or lose their Smithfield and other foreign busi- 

 ness, built up in the past from American supplies. 

 Not only have the packers entered these sub-equa- 

 torial markets, but large companies have been 

 formed in recent years to engage heavily in cattle 

 ranching in regions heretofore not stocked. Notable 

 cases in point are the Brazilian Land, Cattle & 

 Packing Co., of which Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, former 

 manager of the Matador business, is the present 

 executive head, and the British South African Char- 

 tered Co., which has engaged as manager Mr. 

 Richard Walsh, long with the Adair ranch at Palo- 

 duro, Texas. 



Exports to South America. — ^It was iq January, 

 1911, that Mr. Mackenzie left the service of the 

 Matador company and went to take charge of this 

 great new venture in South America. Prior to his 

 engagement the board of directors had purchased 

 about 920 head of Herefords and 20 Shorthorns in 

 the United States. All of these cattle except those 

 coming from above the quarantine line were pur- 

 chased from an infected district and were immune, 

 and the cattle purchased from above the quarantine 

 line were sent to the Texas Experiment Station, 

 where they were held for six months and immunized. 

 The cattle arrived in Brazil about the end of July 

 and were placed in pastures in Parana. They stood 

 the trip very well, only five head dying between 



