Word: shorthorns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ayrshire Guernsey Hereford Jersey Merino Shorthorn...
Alberta, Canada destroyed 24 head of purebred Shorthorn cattle; but the loss was covered by insurance...
They crossed Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford stock with buffalo. The offspring were called cattalo. First generation cattalos looked like king-sized cattle with a marked shoulder hump. By the third generation the hump had been bred out, reproduction bred in. So crossbreeding was dropped for straight cattalo-raising...
...other walls portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...
...Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...