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64437, Myrtie Taylor 56671, Olivia 98 11 2, Charity 66888, and 

 Beauty 95357- This furnished the foundation stock of pure-bred 

 polled Hereford blood from which this type was developed. Giant 

 proved a valuable sire in the Gammon herd. Wilson was bought by 

 Mr. Cadwell of Illinois, and later this bull and Variation were used 

 in the Boyd herd. Tony was first leased to Mr. Guthrie and later 

 bought by him. The first calves in the Gammon herd from this 

 polled foundation came in 1902. Polled matings resulted in nearly 



100 per cent polled 

 calves, while 50 to 75 

 per cent of calves sired 

 by polled bulls and out 

 of horned cows were 

 polled. Among the 

 leading early improvers 

 and promoters, besides 

 those mentioned above, 

 are Benjamin Johnson 

 of Indiana, George E. 

 Ricker of Nebraska, 

 Wyoming Experiment 

 Station, Elijah Field 

 and Son, T. W. Her- 

 ron of Ohio, and S. 

 W. Anderson of West 

 Virginia. 

 The type of Polled Hereford is essentially that of the horned 

 Hereford but with a true polled head pointed at the top rather 

 than broad and rounding over, such as obtains with cattle arti- 

 ficially dehorned. The early type of polled Hereford lacked in 

 uniformity and did not possess the thick, low-set, blocky form so 

 much admired in the best beef cattle of to-day. However, steady 

 improvement has been made, so that to-day there are polled Here- 

 fords that compare favorably with the best of those with horns. 



Two strains of Polled Herefords naturally resulted from the 

 breeding above described — thdse from the use of impure blood, 

 such as a pure-bred polled bull on a grade cow, and known as 

 single standard ; and those from pure-bred Hereford ancestry, as 



Fig. 114. A Polled Hereford bull used in the herd 

 of W. W. Guthrie, Atchison, Kansas. From photo- 

 graph, by courtesy of Judge Guthrie, given the 

 author in 1901 



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