Squire Richard had spent a lifetime trying to improve the cattle of Herefordshire. He had embarked on a new idea of selective rather than random mating. They came in a varied assortment of colors ranging from red to dark gray with faces that were mottled to pure white. She had a line of white which ran the length of her back and had a pure white front and face. Young Benjamin and his son to follow continued to breed the progeny of Silver; Herefords continued to thrive in England and ultimately, by the registry of purebred Herefords was established.
Across the Atlantic a great Kentucky orator Clay, had an eye for the attractive white face and in the first Herefords were imported to America. Miller, these cattle were purchased in England in and arrived in Kentucky in Herefords would thrive in the East, but West of the Mississippi it was the tenacious Longhorn that prevailed by its will to survive.
Despite being cantankerous, meatless and milkless the Longhorn was not challenged until after the Civil War. When the carcasses were counted that spring it was the Herefords who were still standing. Mossom Boyd of Canada and J. Terry of Wyoming crossed purebred Angus bulls with Hereford cows.
It was W. Intrigued by their possibilities, Gammon returned to his farm near St. He succeeded in removing the horns, but the results were as plain as the stock he started with. A new approach was needed. Much earlier, in , a Christian monk, Gregor Mendel, had published an obscure paper on inheritance.
Mendel had made selective breeding predictable! Bert Gammon, a graduate student of 19, was doing a study of genetics and it was one of his papers which proved to be the spark that ignited a fire of new ideas in the minds of the Gammons. They discarded their cross breeding system and set sail on a course which would make them famous as founders of the Polled Hereford breed.
Following Mendel, they set out to extract the polled gene from within the purebred Hereford itself; in effect, to transform an infrequent trait into an expected one.
The Gammons would create the only pure breed of cattle native to America! In the year , at age 55, Warren Gammon, set his course to develop a purebred Polled Hereford. He began by writing to all members of the American Hereford Association, inquiring if they might have a hornless, registered Hereford.
Out of replies, he located 14 purebred Herefords, born without horns; 4 bulls and 10 cows. A jubilant Gammon bought all but one cow; two cows proved barren, reducing the number of foundation cows to 7.
Shipped by rail to his new home, Giant was mated to his first Polled Hereford cow in Three polled calves were born that first year, six polled calves the second; the beginning of a stream of calves that would ultimately span the earth.
The American Hereford Association refused to make a distinction between Herefords, either polled or horned. It would take 50 years, in , after 1. From the very beginning Gammon was adamant about breed purity. Skepticism and ridicule were the rule rather than the exception. Progress seemed frustratingly slow. Even Giant himself had been the center of a controversy. Born May 3, on the ranch of O. Nelson, Hiawatha, Kansas, Giant was sold as a calf to Geo. Unknown to both, he was a mutation.
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Delivery Available? It Started Nearly Years Ago,. His other son, also William, became a famous breeder of Herefords, winning 13 cups for his cattle from the Hereford Agricultural Society between and This is the first recorded sale of the breed. It was six years old, weighing 2, lbs, and sold for gns. The importance attached to the Silver strain is clearly shown. Hereford bull Cotmore born. Bred by T Jeffries, and acknowledged the greatest bull ever produced up to his day. His weight at nine years old was 3, lbs.
First Royal Show at Oxford. Devons, Herefords and Shorthorns only breeds shown. First prize for best cow in milk won by Hereford. Cotmore, the first prize Hereford bull, created a great sensation.
Hereford ox, bred and exhibited by Mr Joseph Hill, of Collington, weighed 3, lbs. He considered this the best sale. His rare wealth of flesh and magnificent quality were carried through successive generations. His strain in unison with the strain of Regulus, another very fine Court House bull, proved most successful.
Highest price was for the bull Paragon. Before this sale Mr Price had gained many prizes e. New South Wales Agricultural Society publishes first volume of their herd book, in which Herefords and produce were entered.
Exhibits of Herefords at Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition creates great impression, and leads to wide extension of the breed in the states. He was the sire of some first rate stock in that country, notably Anxiety 3rd and Anxiety 5th, afterwards famous in the American herds of Mr T Clarke and Gudgell and Simpson, respectively. He is the first overseas judge of Herefords in this country. Britannia, bred and exhibited by Mr HR Griffiths, wins the female championship for the third time in succession.
A ship carrying a consignment of Herefords to America is torpedoed in the Atlantic and two swim ashore to Ireland, showing the stamina of the breed.
Weston Masterpiece, bred by Mr CH Morris sets a record price for a Hereford bull sold at auction of 12,gns, which stood for 20 years. Second reduction sale of Vern cattle creates global breed records. Julia Vern 40th sells for the world record price of 6,gns.
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