. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 388 HISTOEY OP HEEEFORD CATTLE sire to avoid traveling his cattle down, shows the weakness of his breed of Durhams. As he says he has 150 miles to travel to go to Eock- hampton while I have only 90 miles to go, I will travel my Herefords another 60 miles to make up the 150, and so give him no cause of complaint. Again, what does he mean by mak- ing 'condition' a leading point to suit Mr. Beardmore. It is 'condition' and 'condition' only that he 'challenged on' in his letter of the 9th of Februar
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 388 HISTOEY OP HEEEFORD CATTLE sire to avoid traveling his cattle down, shows the weakness of his breed of Durhams. As he says he has 150 miles to travel to go to Eock- hampton while I have only 90 miles to go, I will travel my Herefords another 60 miles to make up the 150, and so give him no cause of complaint. Again, what does he mean by mak- ing 'condition' a leading point to suit Mr. Beardmore. It is 'condition' and 'condition' only that he 'challenged on' in his letter of the 9th of February. I look on Mr. Peberdy's chal-. ELTON 1ST (9875) 11245. Bred by Earl & Stuart. Celebrated son of Sir Richard 2d (4984) 970A. lenge as a piece of 'blow' and nothing more, and that he has no intention of bringing things to a point. I am, sir, etc., "Beaedmore of ; (There is no date to Mr. Beardmore's letter.— Ed. Q.) We have several other letters pertaining to this controversy. We give but one of these, and that signed by John Fulford, of Lyndhurst, and dated the 21st of April, and which appeared in the "Queenslander" of May 10th: "To the Editor of the 'Queenslander': "Sir: I note in Mr. W. K. Peberdy's chal- lenge letter of 22d January a sneer at the lim- ited experience of some of the Queensland breeders of Herefords, who, he says, 'have been engaged in their production only a few years.' I do not know to whom he refers when he makes that statement, but he evidently loses sight of the fact that the majority of the Hereford breeders were breeders of Shorthorns before they commenced to breed Herefords, and there- fore can lay claim to a larger experience than men who have bred Shorthorns only, and should be in a better position to know which breed is most suitable to this country. All cattlemen know that no breed of cattle were more abused than Herefords were for many years in Aus- tralia and the fact of their coming into favor at
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