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...judge of a bucking bull is his meanness in the arena, and on that count, 14-year-old "Aught"-half Brahman, half Hereford-probably qualifies as the orneriest critter in captivity. Starting his 13th year on the rodeo circuit, he has been saddled with 482 riders-only six have managed to stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete...
What matters most of all, of course, is Big John Wayne, the biggest moneymaker in Hollywood history. In 35 years Wayne's 155 movies have grossed $300 million and his broad, dull, pleasant. Hereford face has become as much a part of the western scene as the Petrified Forest. But at 54, Big John is getting a bit long in the tooth and short in the wind for all this biffbang and muscling around. In Comancheros the camera discreetly looks the other way whenever he tries to haul himself up the side of a horse. The day is plainly...
...Pacific Northwest is the Promised Land. Standing beneath a night sky splashed with a million stars, breathing deeply of the forest air. Levin thinks, "Imagine getting all this for nothing!" He tramps for miles through the countryside, exchanging stares with cud-chewing cattle. He had never before seen a Hereford or a Black Angus and "they had never seen a Levin...
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...
...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...