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is here too much breeding-ground which can never be 

 broken up, too much cattle-range upon which the market- 

 shooter will not be allowed, to permit of their extermi- 

 nation. Much of their home will long lie unravaged by 

 the hoof of the great white spoiler of all that is fair in 

 Nature, and our children' s children shall hear their cheery 

 call upon a thousand hill-sides when the valleys and 

 plains below are almost a solid mass of gardens and 

 orchards of the rarest and most valuable fruits that can 

 be grown in America. 



