The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-29
LONGHORNSOUT
. OF STYLEFOR
BEEF STOCK
v eteran Breeder Predicts
Early Disappearance of
Head Arms.
BY MICHAEL r. Day

& l2TAEF CORRESPONDENT i. N. SERVICE
DEN VES, Cole, America q
uture beefsteak Will come from, a
naturally hornless steer or COW
boVlne styles change Just as surely
not as frequently and RAPIDLY as
eminine modes. Horns are going
put Of fashion. The up-to-date
81 critter" of the range a few wears
Silence won't wear anv heaar.ar -
carry any arms simply because
neither is needed. and nature is TAX
ing a hand with the breeder in
eliminating the unnecessary.
Ihat Is the declaration OF - r.
rforris. Of Evergreen. Colorado.
Sioneer breeder or hornless Here
lords and veteran Of the western
/ range.
With the gradual diminishing Of
predatory animals from the .pen
range country" Morris told Inter
& ational News Service, horns are
{. almost useless to cattle as chaps.
spurs and saddle would be to a New
OK dry goods salesman. They are
cut OF style are worthless an orna-
rnents, a menace. 5n shipping and
necessitate double stable space wher
worn d. a-istocTatic range animals
that are housed and ,petted' dur,ng
severe weather.
Dehorning is a painful operation.
8 fenee, why grow horns7
81 with these facts in view. cat
tie breeders are manufacturing EN-,
'w4thout horns. Exhibits at recent
stock expositions bear this out
mere were more polled beef cattle
i at the International Stock Show in
Cnicago and at the Kansas City
Royal this year than ever before.
probably ons-third OF the heavy ex
97ipits at the Ma tio-al Western In
4 Denver early in January Will be
hornlesS
In the western a1d southwestern
range country the famous white
ace, or Hereford. outvotes other
beef families almost ten to one.
! Original Hereford stock in America
was possessed OF long, graceful
a eadarms-horns that served and
#were needed as weapons That.
III owever, was before Uncle Sam had
E3oined the plainsmen in a war to
kexterminats predatory beasts The
wolf-the stoclnan's greatest enc
my OF the early days-has almost
disappeared from the range. Cougar
sre no longer a menace. Bears are
+ scarce. Coyotes are about the only
& stockholders left TO conquer and
even the Wild dog isn't so destruc-
tive as he was ten years ago. Also.
more care is given to the caIving
COWS. They no longer need horns.
1.-THE order has gone out to .disarm
sthe bovine world, and nature is do
kg'ng more than her share to carry
WV 1ut the ukase.
II "Herefords. today the most popu-
lar range breed in the world, came
from Herefordshire, England. and
Indications are that the parent stock
vas hornless. In the early days of
2 white-face breeding in America
4 sport or hornIess freak. would ap
pear infrequently among the herds
as the progeny of horned stock
Bred back to their horned herdmates
these freaks produced approximate
E ly SIXTY per cent polled calves.
L Crossed with polled stock. they in
variahIy produced their like, indi-
In cating that the polled strain was the
"A older and stronger blood. That Is
the blood which is certain TO sur
vive.
a Less than twenty years ago the
FIRST herd OF all-polled, purebred
v trerefords was founded by John
Cannon. Of Iowa. Since then more
than zoo prominent breeders have
crossed their strains of the white
face family and ars letting nature
10 the dehorning job. Twenty years
Mtrom now. I believe, horned range
y attic will be as much of curl
osity as are the ancient Texas long
horns today. And 1t wasn't SO many
years ago that the butcher who