Herefords to fore

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 32

Herefords to fore

There is no question at all that of all the beef cattle breeds, newcomers included, there is no more attractive breed aesthetically than the Herefords. There is no more pleasing site than these cattle with their red coats and white faces grazing in the sunshine on a green hillside or flat paddock.

And in the case of the Hereford it is not a case of looks being only skin deep. At this week’s Royal Show the Canterbury Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Club, with the support of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association, will be telling and showing farmers, and in particular the commercial cattlemen, why Herefords are so good. Watch out for the Hereford tent near the cattle pavilion. You will know that you have arrived when you see a distinctive two-year-old Hereford

heifer and its calf. It is from the Beechwood stud of Mrs G. M. Burrows at Culverden. Inside the tent, on either side of a large map of the South Island pinpointing the properties of stud Hereford breeders, the story of the virtues of the Hereford will be told in word and picture. The main points that will be made will be the ability of the breed to survive in a wide variety of climatic conditions, its ease of management and high fertility, its high performance and its notable ability as a crossing animal.