A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



it was a shame to kill that class of stock, but that he 

 would weigh it up for all it was worth on the market, 

 and Mr. Culbertson could add whatever per head 

 price he thought fair, and ti-ansfer the pedigrees to 

 Kirkland B. Armour, who owned a beautiful sec- 

 tion-farm at Excelsior Springs, Mo. This was done, 

 and Mr. Armour wired his nephew that the cattle 

 were being shipped to him. Here I must pause to 

 speak of that remarkable breeding basis. 



In Alvin H. Sanders' book, The Story of the 

 Herefords, on page 424, the imported cow Pretty- 

 face 5735 is described. By original Anxiety and 

 out of a Longhorn cow, she was the wonder of Eng- 

 land as a two-year-old in 1881, repeating her vic- 

 tories in 1882 over the American circuit. This cow 

 came with the Culbertson purchase. Mr. Sanders 

 comments: "Unlike many cows with distinguished 

 show records, she made a wonderful record as a 

 breeder, giving birth to eleven calves In ten years, 

 none of them twins." Mr. Sanders may have in- 

 cluded her calves after the time she came to Kirk 

 Armour, but I do not think so. She gave birth to 

 five or six calves after reaching Mr. Armour, among 

 them Lady Prettyface and Lord Prettyface. The 

 cow Prettyface offers a striking comparison between 

 the show winners of 1882 and those of the past 

 twenty years. She was 13 years old when she came 

 to Mr. Armour, but lived, as I recall It, until 1900, 

 prolific to the last. She was distinctly long-horned, 



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