. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 464 HISTOEY OF HEREFORD CATTLE of Herefords, and the Herefords would not have occupied the position ttn'j' do today. We thought if we couhl show that with ordinary methods of hay and f^rass thi; farmer can put his three-year-old steers on tlie marl<-fi' animals than he has been in tiie haliit of handling from any other breed. We called attention to the fat cow nearly 11 years old, weight 1,800 pounds. We believed such an exhibit a credit to the breed, breeding for more than the average life o
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. 464 HISTOEY OF HEREFORD CATTLE of Herefords, and the Herefords would not have occupied the position ttn'j' do today. We thought if we couhl show that with ordinary methods of hay and f^rass thi; farmer can put his three-year-old steers on tlie marl<-fi' animals than he has been in tiie haliit of handling from any other breed. We called attention to the fat cow nearly 11 years old, weight 1,800 pounds. We believed such an exhibit a credit to the breed, breeding for more than the average life of the Short- horn, and then going to the butcher as first- class beef, weighing 1,800 pounds. It is a credit to the breed that it can fit three-year-old heifers to 1,750 pounds, but greater credit to take an aged breeding cow and make 1,800 pounds of first-class beef. In this exhibit of our breeding stock we had the three-year-old bull, Dauphin 18th, bred by Mr. J. B. Oreen, Marlow, England, weigh- ing without fitting 2,330 pounds, and Winter de Cote, a brother to Mrs. Edwards' celebrated Jjeonora, and then old Success, nearly ten years old, with all the vigor of a two-year-old, and no sign of age upon him. Also four of his heifers. and the nine-year-old cow, Victoria (by old Sir Charles), the dam of Dictator, owned by Mi. l\ VV. Smith, of WoodlandviUc, Mo., who won with him the sweepstakes of the best Hereford bull two years in succession, at St. Louis, over the best Hereford bulls of b^ngland and America. 1'be bulls in this exhibit were from ordinary stock keep, and the cows fronj jjastur(; only. We expected the tirrn; was not far distant when stock from the jjastures would form an im- portant part of the live stock exhibits of our leading shows, and if this exhibit of ours would hasten that time, we would have accomplished wdiat we intended to do. The advice of the best and most experienced breeders is to never Ijuy fitted stock, and whatever may be the breeder's reputation
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