HEREFORD CATTLE.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 305, 20 March 1878, Page 4

HEREFORD CATTLE.

“ Aoricola,” in the Auckland Herald , gays : —The following article referring to lierefords is interesting, as some fine specimens of that description of stock have lately been introduced here by Messrs Mac Lean and Co. This stock is considered by those experienced breeders to be the best adapted of all cattle for this country. Mr T. L. Miller, the noted Illinois breeder of Herefords, writes to the Hive Stock Journal as follows :—ln Ohio thellerefords have made themselves many friends, both among the farmers and at the State and County fairs. In Ohio and Michigan State fairs they took the sweepstake herd premium over several of the best Shorthorn herds in those States. They have'shown themselves superior to all imported breeds in crossing upon the native* ®lttle ‘-in Colorado, and the grade steers that are coming from that State are selling on the Chicago market at higher prices than any others. In In America they have the endorsement of every man that has bred or fed them. They have made a good record at the State fairs in blew York for nearly 40 years, as also in Ohio for 25 years past. At the Northern Ohio fair, in. 1876, they took the sweepstakes premium for the best breeder’s herd of a bull and four heifers bred and-owned by the exhibitor, and for the best herd of bull and four cows or heifers. And this was taken from Shorthorns that were just from the State fair with sweepstake honours over Of room’s herd of Kentucky. Another herd of Herefords, in 187 6, took the herd premium from seven Shorthorn herds at the Michigan State fair. I make these comparisons, not to depreciate the Shorthorns, but to’ show that whenever the lierefords and Shorthorns have come into competition, the Herefords have not suffered by the competion; and lam called upon, to make thorn because of the assumptions of the breeders of Shorthorns. I am aware trie larger majority oi the Shorthorn breeders hare no idea that such tacts exist, but they are a matter of record, and, the record is made on high and generous feeding, -and when the Shorthorn is at its best. Heretofore the cattle interest has been developed in those States which are‘ rich in grasses and grains. We are entering upon new conditions, and it requires more space than you can give me now to develop these claims. Permit me to say, however, that the opening of. Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Eocky Mountain country to the cast, and California, Oregon, and the States and territories, on the west of the mountains, will transfer the .breeding of the beef steer from the older States to those ranges, and it will require a hardy animal and good grazier. There is one breed of animal that more fully meets the wants of this range than any other, and this breed is the Hereford.