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224 THE BREEDS OF LIV E-STOCK 
no attempt was made to keep up the race, and the result 
was that they became merged into other stocks and dis- 
appeared. The importation of 1840 was somewhat larger 
and more successful in that the cattle were maintained 
in their purity and’ pedigree records were kept. The 
descendants of this importation have continued to the 
present day and are registered in the American Hereford 
Record. 
It was not until the Centennial Exposition at Phila- 
delphia, in 1876, that the cattle-growers of the western 
part of the United States were attracted to the visible 
merits of this breed of cattle. A very attractive herd of 
the descendants of later importations was on exhibition 
on this oecasion. To nearly all of the cattle-men of the 
West the Hereford was an unheard-of breed, and their uni- 
formity, color and markings, together with their beef- 
‘arrying qualities, were revelations to them. As the 
cattle-growing interests were at that time assuming 
enormous proportions in the country west of the Missouri 
river, these visiting cattle-men were the more easily pre- 
vailed on to give the Herefords a trial under their system 
of production. 
In the few succeeding years all the bulls obtainable 
of this breed were bought and shipped to different parts 
of the range country from Wyoming to Texas. It was 
then developed that the Hereford bull, when bred to range- 
bred cows, transmitted to his progeny his breed characteris- 
tics to a great degree, and ranchmen proceeded at once to 
make arrangements to introduce Hereford bulls into their 
herds. The popularity of the breed steadily grew and 
spread throughout the cattle-growing sections, and it soon 
became evident that they were impressing their characters 
on the improved range stock. This wave of popularity 
