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bare subsistence, and thus a valuable race to introduce into the 

 regions of country which we have named. 



The manner of doing this would be simple. A cargo of them 

 might be selected near Glasgow, Scotland, where the choicest of 

 them may be purchased at an average not exceeding $150 each, 

 and shipped to New York, or Boston; thence transported 

 cheaply in return cattle trains westward, which usually go empty, 

 and then distributed to their destinations. We know of no cat- 

 tle enterprise, for the purposes we have named, conducted with 

 proper intelligence and spirit, which can promise more fairly and 

 profitably; and we hope to see it undertaken by men whose 

 means and foresight are equal to the object. A cargo of one 

 hundred, about equally divided between bulls and cows, might 

 come out by way of experiment. A single bull or two should 

 be retained with the cows for thorough breeding, and the remain- 

 der might be placed with small native cows, for the immediate 

 propagation of grades. The progeny of these cows, continu- 

 ously put to thorough bred bulls, would soon raise them to that 

 degree of blood to satisfy the main object of their introduction, 

 and in a comparatively few years, for all practical purposes, they 

 would become an established race, with but a fraction of the 

 American blood remaining in them; and finally holding con- 

 tinuously to the pure Hooded bulls in propagation become all 

 that we need in that description of cattle. Thus, our far south- 

 western grazing regions which now send us only the ragged and 

 comparatively worthless Texan cattle, and the far north-western 

 wilds which send us none at all, together with our intermediate 

 mountain ranges, would ultimately even shortly furnish our 

 interior rich lands with grazing material for the best of beef, and 

 our markets would be supplied with the choicest of flesh for 

 consumption. 



Our suggestions on this subject are not visionary not even 

 enthusiastic. We only open one of those sure fields of enter- 



