Milford chronicle., 1922-07-07
SPLENDID DISPLAY
OF HEREFORD CATTLE
BUCK AND DOE RUN FARMS, CHESTER
COUNTY, Pa, COSISTINC OF $4,000
ACRES, INACCURATE
BACK TO BEEF" MOVEMENT
PRIOR TO The CIVIL WAR CHESTER
COUNTY WAS The CENTER OF THE
BEEF FATTENING INDUSTRY.

If you see a field of cattle, all with
white faces and looking at first glance
like box cars, you can thereby be sure
that these are Hereford beef stock, re-
Gently introduced in Delaware as a
supplement to the dairy herds.
The white face is trade mark, ap-
parently, almost never failing to char
acterize the get of pedigreed bulls,
though differently marked in blotches
on the prevailingly red bodies. The
dropping horns are a recent breeders
fancy; but the square body, with
straight back and heshed so that no
bony structure can be seen or felt, is
always to be noted.
A party of newspaper men was last
week the guest of Macmillan Hopes,
manager of the Buck and Doe Run
farms, in Chester county, Pennsylva-
mia, where adjoining farms, aggrega-
ting 10000 acres are just now the CEN
ter of the movement, whose slogan is
back to beef" in which Mr.. Hopes
is much interested, not to say absorb
ed.
Before the War of the Rebellion"
said Mr.. Hopes, "this very region
was the center of the beef fattening
industry of the country; farmers buy
ing and raising beef cattle, which were
driven to marketing points. After that
time, with the unlimited ranges of the
West and the new shipment facilities,
the business followed, and the farmer
turned dairyman.
mot only is the beef side of cattle
raising of much potential Importance
in connection with dairy work, or
alone, but it helps solve the fertilizer
problem; the cost of roughage to car
ry a barn full of feeders over a season
being almost offset by the diminution
of the chemical fertilizer BILL
Much attention to beef cattle is be-
ing paid in the west, where Herefords
are specialized in by an increasing
number of raisers. Several recent car
load shipments personally selected in
Iowa by Mr.. Hopes, were among the
23O head that were inspected in the
various meadows and hillside pas
lures of the farm. These varied in age
from ten months to twO-year-Old heif--
ers. While these will be kept for
breeding purposes, the steers of like
age are ready for market as "baby
beef" at that age, although as a rule
are allowed to put on more weight,
before being marketed.
Through the active interest of Mr..
Hopes, the cooperation of western
growers has been secured, so that a
show of HerefOrds will
be a feature of the State Fair in Will
mington next September. 1t is aimed
to form National Hereford Associa-
ton, and $4,000 worth of prizes will
be offered.
The best animals in the cow steer
and bull classes will be shown, more
than 100 being expected to compete.
Mr.. Hopes is offering punches of
five head for sale to grazers and far
mers in this vicinity, as a starter to-
ward demonstrating the qualities of
the breed, and will later arrange to
lend bulls to Delaware communities
for the same purpose.
The typographical features of the
Buck and Doe Run Valley Farm lands |
Is especially well suited for grazing,
being abundantly supplied with water,
and comprising hillside slopes as
we'll as meadow land. There are 23O |
head of Herefords now on the range.
In the barns on the old Wilson |
place are housed the score or more
head of show cattle, of different ages,
that are being kept in condition for
being exhibited. One three-year-Old
bull was estimated to weigh 2,1OO lbs.
The scenery is typical of the rolling
country along the southern Pennsyl- |
yania line, and the visitors were taken
to several points of advantage, COM
wide outlooks,
Lammot du Pont is president of the
farms.