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...King Ranch later in the week. At the ranch there was time for a long sleep, late breakfast and a midmorning inspection trip. Goulart, a rancher himself, looked long and hard at the ranch's famed herd of Santa Gertrudis cattle (3⅜ Brahman and 5⅝ Shorthorn bred for good beef and hardiness), but made no decision...
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...
From 8 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon, the 80 contestants shuffled silently around the stock. There were 13 classes to be judged, with four animals in each class. The trick was to rank them in their proper order. For Eddie, the Shorthorn heifers seemed easy. One looked a bit long-bodied; another was too narrow through the quarters; a third stood out as "a thick, typy heifer that had a lot of bloom." Each heifer had a number on its back, and Eddie jotted down in his notebook how he thought they should rank...