. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 374 HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE coats are a protection in the winter. The but- ter that IS made is a splendid color and taste. There are lots of Hereford dairies in this county. In the year 1881 I sold two bulls to cross Shorthorns, and I know parties who have crossed Herefords with Shorthorns and have come back again to the Herefords.' "Mr. White writes me from Wiltshire as fol- lows : T keep a dairy of ninety pure-bred Here- ford cows, which breed has been kept on this WU^^^z^^^,. RUDOI^PH
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 374 HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE coats are a protection in the winter. The but- ter that IS made is a splendid color and taste. There are lots of Hereford dairies in this county. In the year 1881 I sold two bulls to cross Shorthorns, and I know parties who have crossed Herefords with Shorthorns and have come back again to the Herefords.' "Mr. White writes me from Wiltshire as fol- lows : T keep a dairy of ninety pure-bred Here- ford cows, which breed has been kept on this WU^^^z^^^,. RUDOI^PH (6660J 1.^478. Bred by P. Turner, Herefordshire. farm for the last sixty years, and I have at all times endeavored to obtain the milkiest strain I could, and I think I have now a herd of cows more adapted to dairy purposes than any other Hereford herd in this country. I have made fair trials between the Hereford and Shorthorn as to profit, and I give my decided preference to the former.' "The testimony from these two herds is the most valuable that could possibly be obtained as to the dairy capabilities of the breed, as they are the largest, and have been longest estab- lished of any in existence. I have received let- ters similar in tenor to the above from various smaller breeders in different counties, and I have not been able to discover an instance where breeders or dairymen have changed back to other breeds after starting in with Herefords. T had hoped to send with this report some fig- ures giving actual milk and butter products, etc., but I must leave them for a supplementary report, as I have already detained this one over a month, waiting for the promised statistics. But it is not so much as milkers that the United States are interested in the breed, but as beef producers; and that in this capacity they are indeed largely interested will be proved when I say that the extraordinary demand for pedi- gree Herefords from the United States in the last few years has so
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