Identifier: breedsoflivestoc00sand (find matches)
Title: The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Sanders, James Harvey, 1832-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Sanders publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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GRADE SHORT-HORN BULLOCK McMULLIN. Color, red; fed and exhibited at the American Fat-Stock Showby Mr. John D. Gillette, Elkhart, 111.; bred from a stock of Short-horns maintained many years by Mr. Gillette, and champion of theshow for the years 1881 and 1882. Only one other beast has hadthe honor of winning this trophy twice, and he a Kentucky Short-horn bullock (Nichols). McMullin was a remarkably flne-loinedsteer, his chief strength lying in his top. His weight at theshow of 1881 was 2,095 lbs., and in 1882, 2,565 lbs. Sketched fromlife by Burk, 1882. (246)
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CHAPTER X. HEREFORD CATTLE. For full one hundred years the rivalry between the Herefordbreed and the Short-horn or Durham has been hot and unrelenting-;and in the history of the origin and early improvement of the twobreeds there is a striking similarity, the methods of the first greatimprovers of both breeds having been substantially the same. Theremote origin is obscure in both cases, but use of the best mate-rial at command, with an ideal standard of excellence constantlykept in view and adhered to with dogged pertinacity by men ofrare good judgment, was the touchstone of success in both cases.The rivalry between the partisans of the two breeds appears tohave been peculiarly active and energetic in the early part of thepresent century, especially between those acknowledged championsof either breed, Thomas Bates and John Price; and challenges forcompetitive shows of equal numbers of cattle were frequent. From some cause or other, however, for nearly fifty years afterthe first quarte

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