Word: herefords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cattle have always produced a few dwarfs, just as humans do. But stunted cattle were never common until about seven years ago, when they began to increase alarmingly in all three leading beef breeds-Shorthorn, Hereford and Aberdeen Angus. The increase has continued ever since...
Various Breeds. Looking for heavier, meatier animals, the rancher turned to the foreign breeds that were trickling into the country as early as 1783: first the Shorthorn (Durham), then the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus from Britain, and from India the hardy Brahman. But no breed possessed all virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal...
Cattle for the Reds. The genetic experiments have produced some interesting new breeds: the Brangus (⅜ Brahman, ⅝ Angus), the Braford (½ Hereford, ½ Brahman), the Charbray (13/16 Charollaise, 3/16 Brahman). The famed million-acre King Ranch has the Santa Gertrudis (⅜ Brahman, ⅝ Shorthorn), claiming that it is the best beef on the hardiest animal. Last summer the Russian agricultural delegation visiting the U.S. took a look at the Santa Gertrudis and said, "This is one thing we very much want...
Colorado Rancher Tom Lasater's handling of his Beefmaster (½ Brahman, ¼ Shorthorn, ¼ Hereford) is a good demonstration of how a scientific breeder works. Lasater gives his cattle a start- dehorning, vaccination against blackleg, a little hay and some alfalfa pellets in the winter; then he stands off and watches. Should a cow trip in holes, need its hooves trimmed, walk with a short gait, have to be milked out to prevent caked udder, or drop its calf one hour after the 42-day calving period, it is yanked out and sold for slaughter. The same end awaits...
...month ago an oldtimer to the National Hereford Congress in Tucson looked at his fellow cattlemen, most of them dressed in grey flannels rather than in big hats and boots, and pronounced an epitaph on an age: "The cowpuncher of olden days is the cardpuncher of today. We are entering the I.B.M. era of cattle production...