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ranch we saw the cattle being dipped in familiar 

 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 



