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ranch we saw the cattle being dipped in famihar 

 ranch fashion. 



Cattle, horses, and hogs all thrive. All the 

 native stock offers material on which to im- 

 prove. The company is carefully breeding up- 

 ward, following precisely the same course which 

 in Texas, for instance, has effected a complete 

 substitution of graded beef and dairy cattle for 

 the old longhorns. The native cattle are very 

 distinctly better than the old Texan cattle — 

 the native Mexican cattle. The Durham and 

 Hereford bulls introduced from the States will 

 in a very few years completely change the 

 character of the herds. Good cows are kept 

 in sufficient numbers to insure a constant sup- 

 ply of the breeding bulls. In the same way 

 Berkshire boars are being crossed with the na- 

 tive pigs, and blooded stallions with the native 

 mares. In short, everything is being done ex- 

 actly as on our advanced and successful ranches 

 at home. The country is still largely vacant, 

 and opportunities for development will be al- 

 most limitless for at least another generation. 



Aside from the extreme interest of seeing the 

 ranch itself, the twenty -mile ride was most en- 

 joyable. The country was like our own plains 

 near the foothills of the Rockies, except that 

 there was more water and a greater variety of 



