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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



brindle (black and red mixed) color, and a better worker we 

 never knew. At eight years old we fed him off on grass, and 

 ahttle corn- meal only, and he gave us 1,200 pounds of beef, 

 hide and tallow. "Where hay and pasturage are cheap, and the 

 farmer has a taste for the business, it must be a profitable invest- 

 ment to obtain a thorough bred Hereford bull, cross him on well 

 selected native red cows,' and rear and break steers for the 

 markets where good working oxen are in demand. The strong 

 blood of the bull will give uniformity in shape, and color, so 

 that the steers may be easily matched, and if not wanted for the 

 yoke, they are equally valuable, as other cattle, for feeding, and 

 the shambles. 



Plate 7. Hereford 0%. 

 AS A BEEF ANIMAL, 



The Hereford is superior. They feed kindly, are thrifty in 

 growth, mature early — at three and four years old — and prove 

 well on the butchers' block. "We are aware that they have not 

 now a general popularity in the great cattle breeding regions of 



