on. He agrees with me that the
evolution of your cattle is simply a matter of disposition. I find,
however, that he has no use for the Brahma bull, although he joins me in
the belief that you can not do anything to hurt the present breeding
process, and he rather grudgingly admits that the Brahma bull may have a
place in scale. I reviewed with him at some length what has preceded and
asked him what he thought about my comparison with the Texas primitive
cattle as to having more scale. He thinks I am right in that connection,
but says that he believes the Florida cow is more shapely; that she has
a better hindquarter than the old Texan cattle, and is, in a sense, a
miniature Shorthorn, and that he believes that a cross between a
Shorthorn and a primitive Florida cow will give you the best basis.

I called his attention to the fact that in range experience neither the
Blacks nor the Shorthorns seem to be able to make their own living as
well as the Herefords and do not get the calf crop, and he was quite
free to say that it had a little force. On the other hand, he confirms
fully my belief that where a better class of protection can be offered
than the vast ranges, the Shorthorn cross and the cross with the Blacks
either on primitive cows or their cross will have splendid results.

He also called my attention to the prominence that Blacks are getting in
Florida.

There is, therefore, a very wide range of possibilities in your breeding
problem, all of it pointed upward, and there may be something in your
experience here which will show that the Shorthorn and Black have a
greater mission on the open range than they had in Texas. There
certainly can be no question about the value of the blood.

And here I might add that the Government is not asking any one to
increase beef production from a patriotic standpoint, but rather that it
offers a splendid investment. And perhaps I might add that when our boys
who have gone into the army come back again they will practically all
be trained athletes; men seasoned to the out-of-doors and loving it; men
who have obtained an earnestness in life and a new vision as to
usefulness, and when you stop to reflect that we have been sending the
flower of the world to the front, when it comes back to us we will not
only have the attributes I have described, but the flower of the world
to apply them, and I look for an increased interest in all of the
out-of-door lines of business such as Ameri