The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-21
.lATAH SHORTHORNS
PLEASED ST0CKMEN
LIVESTOCK EXPERT OF THE
IDAHO FARMER TELLS OF
FINE CATTLE SEEN HERE

Commendation of the work o1
Latah county Shorthorn breeders are
given in a page write-up of the re-
cent excursion of Shorthorn breeders
of Whitman and Latah counties
which visited Moscow week ago
last Saturday. The article appeared
in this weeks issue of The Idaho
Farmer, leading agricultural paper
of Idaho, and was written by Ray
w. FELTON,, who accompanied the
Shorthorn men. Mr.. FELTON, is a
Latah county young man, his par
ents having lived in and near Mos
COW for many years. He is gradu-
ate in animal husbandry and is re-
garded as a livestock expert. His
report of the trip through Latah
county and his estimate of the herds
of Shorthorns owned here, is inter
esting. He predicts that livestock
men will "hear more of N. William
son and his herd in a few years."
His ably written article follows:
Trip Began at Pullman.
The excursion really got under way
at Pullman, where some of the good
breeding stock at the Washington
State College was inspected. We
picked up Professor Howard Hacke-
dorm of the animal husbandry depart
ment and his assistants here and
took the. Lewiston road, stopping
first at Earl Harper's place, at John
son, where we found good founda-
ton herd. From Harper's we went
to Uniontown and had good look at
Carl Grief's herd. Mr.. Grief has a
corking good bull, Victoria Sultan,
Whitehall Sultan bull of much prom
ise The Grief herd also includes
number of most excellent cows, deep,
smooth and altogether outstanding.
See NOrdby Brothers Herd.
* Going on to Genesee we stopped at
Nordby Bros, and found more good
cattle. Here we saw Barmpton Vii
lager, a 3-year-old bull sired by
Cornerstone Prince, the University of
Idaho bull. The Nordbys are thor
ough breeders and they have an ex-
cellent herd throughout.
Leaving Nordby's, we ran on into
Moscow and were the guests of N.
A. Williamson at fine noon spread
in the dining room of the Moscow
hotel. After lunch we went out to
the University of Idaho Time per-
mitted only brief stop, but we had |
to observe some of the !
good work being done on the Short
horns by Archie Kane, who is back
at the university in the capacity of
herdsman. The visitors were i'm
pressed with the apparent thorough
ness of the work both at the Univer
sity of Idaho and at Washington
State college. All of us would have
enjoyed spending a day at each of
shese institutions.
Praises Williamson's Cattle.
N. A. Williamson's farm, near
Moscow, was the next stop. Mr.. Will
hanson recently sold the largest de-
oartment store in the Palouse coun-
Try to engage in the business of rails
ng purebred Shorthorns. He has
,reat farm, and he is operating it on
scientific and businesslike basis.
Mr.. Williamson has his cattle on an
,ther ranch, but he took us to the
lome place to show us great field
# alfalfa and peas sown together, 15
pounds of alfalfa to so pounds of !
,eas. It was a glorious stand of
10Th. The peas serve as a nurse crop
or the alfalfa, and the experiment is
success without doubt. Last year 7
his field was in oats, the year be-
ore in wheat.
: We found some good cattle and an
boy at the home of ]. F.
'apineau, near Moscow. The boy is e
Or. Papineau's son. He likes cattle il
nd knows them, too. Mr.. Papineau (
as a 22O0-pound Cumberland bred n
ull that is doing good work. ID
Leaving the Papineau ranch, we 0