The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-19
LONG HORNS OUT OF STYLE FOR
 BEEF STOCK
Veteran Breeder Pre- diets Early Disappear ance of Head Arms"
BY MICHAEL F. DACEY. International News Service Staff
 COrTcSpOndCnt.

l correspondent.
 l Denver, Col, Dec. 19.-America' s ! future beefsteak will come from q naturally hornless steer or cow. Bo- | vine styles changes just as surely, if
 not as frequently and rapidly as femi- ] nine modes. Horns are going out of 1 fashion. The up-to-date "critter'' Of | the range a few years hence won't wear any headgear or carry any arms, simply because neither is need ed, and nature is taking a hand with the breeder in eliminating the unneces- sary,
 That is the declaration of R. P. Morris, of Evergreen, Colorado, pioneer breeder of hornlcss Here ford and veteran of the Western range.
 with the gradual diminishing of predatory animals from the open tional News Service, "horns are all most useless to cattle as chaps, spurs and saddle would be to a New York dry goods salesman They are out of style, ara worthless as ornaments, a menace in shipping and necessiate double stable space when worn by arist Ocratic range animals that are housed and 'petted' during severe weather.
 'Dehorning is a painful operation. Hence, why grow horns?
 War On Horns
 with these facts in view, cattle breeders are 'manufactur 'em' without horns. Exhibits at recent stock eXpositions bear this out. There were more boiled beef cattle at the International Stock Show in Chi cago and at the Kansas City Royal this year than ever before. Probably one-third of the heavy exhibits at the National Western in Denver early in January will be hornIess.
 Tn the Western and Southwestern range country the famous white-face, or Hereford, outvotes other beef fam lilies almost ten to one Original Hereford stock in America was pos sessed of long, graceful headarms- h orns that served and were needed as weapons. That, however was before Uncle Sam joined the pIainsmen in a war to exterrninate predatory beasts. The wolf-the stockman's greatest en- erny of the early days-has almost disappeared from the range. Bears are scarce Coyotes are about the only stockkillers left to conquer, and even the wild dog isn't so destructive as he was ten years ago. Also, more care is given to the Ca1Ving COWS. They no longer need horns. The or der has gone out to disarm the bovine world. and Nature is doing more than her share to carry out the ukaSe.
 Rcrefords Popular
 'Herefords, today the most popu- lar range breed in the world, came from Herefordshire, England, and in white-face breeding in America a was hornless. In the early days of dications are that the parent stock sport or hOrnlesS freak, would ap- pear infrequently among the herds as the progeny of horned stock. Bred l back to their horned herdmates, these | freaks produced approximately 50 per | cent. boiled calves. Crossed with l boiled stock, they invariably produced their like, indicating that the boiled | strain was the older and stronger blood. That is the blood which Is 1 certain to survive.
 Less than 20 years ago the first l herd of all-polled, purebred Herefords was founded by John Cannon, of Iowa. Since then more than 200 l prominent breeders have crossed their strains of the white-face family and ire letting nature do the dehorning job. Twenty years from now, l be- ieve, horned range cattle will be as much of a curiosity as are the an eient Texas long-horns today. And t wasn't so many years ago that the butcher who bought a Texas beef paid for from 10 to 30 pounds of worth ess horn. Just as the Texas long h horn has passed in less than a decade he horn will pass entirely from the West ern range. They will be bred off instead of clipped off the great range FamiIies-the Hereford and ShorthOrn just as they have been bred from those great beef-breeds, the Aber- Red-POlled.''