, 1901-12-12
BROOKS ON CATTLE
CASPER BREEDER TELLS OF
IMPROVING THE
BLOOD,
Effects Of the Climate Of Wyoming On
the Size and Quality # the Cattle
Bred Here-Improved Methods of
Modern Breeding Telling on the
Value of the Herd.

ed en- exceptionally able address De-
fore the Industrial convention yester-
day on the subject of Fine Cattle
Breeding in Wyoming" 1t follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men:-The industry of fine cattle
breeding in Wyoming is still in its in
fancy. But enough has been accom-
plished to demonstrate it's great future
possibilities.
Twenty years ago, George Morgan
went to England, and imported some
Royal Herefords. Today, English
breeders could find in our state Here
ford animals superior to their own,
and in the near future, we will doubt
less be supplying critical foreign
breeders with high priced blue bloods
from Wyoming.
Lo, these many moons. in this fair
state OF ours, one lone breeding estab,
lishment has been offering ten to one
that no four breeders in the wide
world, collectively, mind you. can
show eighty head of registered year
ling Hereford heifers as good as theirs;
and this challenge still floats on the
Wyoming breezes with no takers.
Down at Chicago, in the recent world
famous stock exhibit. western cattle
growers successfully competed for ev-
cry prize in all classes; and every
one marveled that out of the west was
coming a class of live stock,
ing anything the world has ever
known.
There are many reasons for this.
Among others, | may cite the interest
ing experiments, conducted some years
ago, by prominent physicians. which
proved conclusively that children born
in our dry atmosphere and high alti-
tude had larger lungs and greater
chest measurements than those born
nearer the s%ea-level.
The same truth applies to our live
stock is even greater degree. Nature
necessarily gives to our native cattle
tremendous lung power, broad chests.
great girth, and well sprung ribs; and
to the heart, an increased size and
pumping capacity, with corresponding
lily large veins and arteries, as our
mountainous country requires a free
and rapid circulation of the blood.
The stomach must also be large to
correspond with heart and lungs, for
nature always builds the internal ma
chinery of her animal kingdom with
IdDSOlule DtlleIlloh. Consequently III
future years, seekers for the best a
come to Wyoming and purchase
animals of surprising merit, with
which to build M their herds: just as
the greatest breeding establishment in
the state of Texas is doing today. But
they can't buy our climate. and therein
lies our future greatness and lasting
supremacy.
Such are Il natural environments,
that we can take the same blood as
other sections use, and from it grow
a superior animal. For this reason,
the business of growing fine cattle in
Wyoming will never be over-done,
Our market is limitless.
In addition to these natural gifts,
which come to us without human en-,
deavor. are others which a be
brought to greater perfection here. ow'
ing to our climate conditions, than in
almost any other section.
Alfalfa hay and oats combined form
a perfect ration for the correct and
complete development of bone. muscle
and flesh, while our natural Buff,
falo grass and blue stem hay
excel the famous blue grass OF
kentucky. All these, with irriga.
ton, can be quickly and cheaply
grown, while our cloudless summer
skies permit us to harvest these crops,
so as to retain all of their nutritive
properties.
Blood and feed, combined with ideal
natural conditions, in a land where
!, disease Is absolutely unknown. enable
us to defy the world in breeding live
stock.
Now, as to the best kind t. grow,
, that is largely a question of individual
} Judgment. The Hereford, is a great
favorite, and is perhaps the best all
around animal for beef purposes in our
western country.
For many years, some of the braini
est breeders in the world have been
~judiciously improving this strain, un'
til the Hereford of today is a far bet
ter animal than the Hereford of ten OF
twenty years ago.
When the feed is ample, and the cat
tie thoroughly cared for, nothing gives
quicker returns and greater satisfac
: ton than the Durham. AS an out
CROSS, the results from the use of reg
, istered short-horns are always emf
nently satisfactory.
For an exceedingly cold and noun
= famous country, where more or less
hardship must be endured, nothing is
better than the Galloway. Tested by
, the block, he easily excels all Others
In the eastern feed yards, the Poll
{ ed Angus gives the best possible salts
faction. In fact, all the beef breeds
D are good and can be handled with pro
fit.
Any Of them can be crossed upon oul
native cattle with splendid results, al
such a cross not only increases thu
e size, but improves the quality of thu
beef, and this Is a point frequently
overlooked.
Some years ago. one Of u expert
mental stations carefully tested
Hereford and a scrub, side by side ant
under exactly similar conditions o
j. age. feed. care, etc. Each made a gail
. Of about two pounds per day. OF abou
the same amount Of feed. When I'm
ished, they went to market together
:. THE scrub sold for IS per hundred
! pounds, the Hereford for $685..
t Some claim that this distinction Il
q partly due to prejudice; but this is
mistake. The expert buyers, who d,
the price of beef cattle In the grea
market centers, rate them strictly o.
their merits, entirely independent o
h breeds, The controlling factor is tn
!, utility and inherent value Of the AMI
y NAL for the block. Thisr scrub stee
would probably dress So per cent O
! beef. the Hereford 81 per cent. TIL
scrub would have o cheap tallow
. and q smaller percentage Of meat !
the high priced cuts.
This season,I have visited quite
number Of cattle ranches In the STATE