It is fare, when the average life of a registered herd is seven years, to have been breeding Hereford cattle successfully in the one location for over 80 years. It is even rarer that the stud involved has been around the top of the whiteface seedstockbusiness for most of that eighty years and is still one of the leading studs in the industry today. J Hilton Doyle, an experienced, progressive grazier established a Hereford stud on 'Merawah' immediately after he purchased the property in 1926. He acquired cows at the Me Mel and Carbean dispersal sales in 1926 and used sons and grandsons of Hobartville Starlight over those cows. The Shamrock, Minerva and Irish Maid cow families that are so prominent in the Poll Hereford breed today stem from those initial foundj tion cows.
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