The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-02-07
Fine Cattle Coming
For Maui RanChTnen
Harold Rice And Haleakala Ranch
Buy Bunch Of High Class Here
fOrdS At Mainland SaleS-ExpeCt-
ed Here Soon


Somewhere between here and Ne
braska, bound for the Haleakala and
the Harold w. Rice ranches, are
some 90 or more Of as blue-blooded
beef cattle as ever came to the Is
lands. One of the scions of royalty
cost the Haleakala Ranch, at public
auction, the neat price of $3.50 and
come from a herd of so sold at the
same time which brought an average
price of $3S45 each.
Another bull bought for Rice cost
$125O, and the others shade down to
as low as about 5000.
The stock is all of the Hereford
breed. It was bought by James
Wight, superintendent of the Halea-
kala Ranch, who has not yet returned
from his purchasing trip, which took
him back through the middle west
where he made his selections from
among the classiest herds in the cou
try. Most of the best animals were
purchased from the herd Of Mousel
Bros, of Cambridge, Neb. Others
were from. an equally prominent
breeder, E. c. Rodwell, of the same
state.
The cattle are expected to arrive
sometime this month, and will be us
ed as the foundation for bulls to
grade up the herds Of the Maui
ranches.
The American Hereford Journal, Of
January IS, prints the following in
~teresting account of Mr.. Wight's
visit:
TAKING HEREFoRDs TO HAWAII
James Wight Makes Purchase Fer
TWO Herds On The Pacific Islands
"Haleakala!" If you can pronounce
it you know the name of another
Hereford herd. The full name is the
Haleakala Ranch Co, whose holdings
of some 10000 acres are located neal
Makawao, Maui, County, Hawaii. The
Haleakala Ranch Co., through its
manager. James Wight, was a liberal
purchaser at the Mousel Bros, and
the Mousel-Rodwell Hereford sales
last week. Mr.. Wight, who has been
in Hawaii for the past eight years,
formerly was in the Hereford breed
ing business with his brother, Will
liam Wight, at Pleasanton, Ia, and
at one time was in the employ of
James A. Funkhouser at Plattsburg,
Mo.
Mr.. Wight, purchased, for his own
anon gthe classiest herds in the coun-
man, Harold w. Rice, of Paia, Maui
County, a carload of Herefords, and
will ship them from San Francisco
early in February. The purchases in
cluded Il Choice Stairway bull at So,
$50, two heifers and a COW and calf
in the Mousel sales for his w COM
pany, and four bulls for Mr.. Rice.
Two COWS, including a th~ree-year-old
daughter of Standard with a calf at
foot. and a four-year-old cow by Aaron
Donald, were secured from Walter l..
Yost, Kansas City, Mo. Two heiiers
and n bull by Beau Kinzer were
purchased from r. A. Steele, Rich
land, Kas.
The Haleakala Ranch Co., is own-
ed by II. A. and S. A. Baldwin, with
the latter as general manager. The
females purchased for this ranch and
for Mr.. Rice and will be used to raise
bulls for their herds. Mr.. Wight says
the Herefords are the most popular
of the beef breeds in the Hawaiian
Islands. 1t is a year-round grazing
country, and the Whiteface seems to
be peculiarly adapted to the condi-
ton there.
And may we remark, just in pass
ing, that it was a Hereford Journal
advertisement that brought Mr..
Wight to the Nebraska sales.