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range use, as well as being in themselves as good 

 if not better than the Shorthorns. I certainly 

 should at this time prefer to take my chances with 

 the Heref ords if I were going into the cattle-raising 

 business, chiefly on account of the probability of 

 their greater endurance." 



Westward Ho!— With the passing of the open 

 range the establishment of real "quality" herds in 

 the newer west bids fair to result in a material ex- 

 tension of the field of pedigree Hereford breeding 

 in the United States. The character of the herds 

 that have been founded in recent years in the Eocky 

 Mountain region, as illustrated by the exhibits at 

 the Denver show, indicate clearly that the produc- 

 tion of top cattle of this favorite western type is 

 likely to become a large and important industry in 

 connection with the further evolution of the cattle 

 trade of the mountain and inter-mountain states. 



Typical of this new condition is the case presented 

 by the persistent purchase of cattle of the highest 

 class by Mr. A. B. Cook. He is engaged in concrete 

 construction work in a large way in Canada and 

 our own Northwest, but has lived in Montana since 

 the early '80 's and knowing what has been accom- 

 plished in the past by the Herefords on the open 

 ranges of that region, he finally decided to assem- 

 ble a herd of the best registered "white faces" ob- 

 tainable, in order to see what Montana climate, Mon- 

 tana bluegrass and alfalfa hay, Montana oats and 

 barley and Montana sugar beets, coupled with proper 

 care and attention, would do for the highest type of 

 modem American-bred Hereford. His great enter- 



