MEXICAN PRACTICE 65 



field over I decided in favor of El Paso and the 

 good old U. S. A. 



Anyhow, while I was down there looking the 

 field over I was introduced to a Mexican who 

 was conducting a large dairy in a neighboring 

 town called Gomez Palacio. When he was 

 informed that I was a veterinarian he would not 

 leave me until I had promised to come to his town 

 to examine one of his cows. He was a fine, gen- 

 tlemanly fellow; Jose Sanchez Alvarez was his 

 name, and you have since seen his name in news 

 items about the Mexican revolution. 



His town was connected to Torreon by an 

 electric street car line and I went over early the 

 next morning. 



His dairy was a fine establishment, milking 

 around 75 cows, and every cow in the place was 

 a Holstein. He told me that all his cows were 

 bought in the States and that he frequently paid 

 $300 to $450 gold for a cow. I knew this before 

 he told me, because I had inspected one ship- 

 ment that came through El Paso and the owner 

 of the shipment informed me that every cow in 

 the lot would bring between $300 and $500 in 

 gold. This means from $600 to $1,000 Mexican 

 money, which will give you a fair idea of how 

 they spend their money down there. These cows 

 were no purebreds, just good cows. 



When I had been shown all over the establish- 

 ment he brought out the cow that I was to exam- 

 ine. There was some impediment to respiration 

 — a solid enlargement the size of a goose egg in 

 the upper tracheal region. Apparently it was a 



