966 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



eign country. It consisted chiefly of bulls about 

 eighteen months old. It is understood that the total 

 price paid was $65,000, or about $125 per head. The 

 cattle were selected from herds below the quaran- 

 tine line owned by J. W. & D. L. Knox of Jacksboro, 

 E. H. McNatt of Fort Worth, M. W. Hovenkamp of 

 Keller, W. N. Burns of Blanket, F. C. Vaden of 

 Sherman, J. H. McCaskey of Decatur, J. P. Morris 

 of Coleman, C. Sloan of Fort Worth, F. L. Smith 

 of Graford, E. J. Johnson of Newcastle, J. T. Day 

 of Ehome, J. 0. Ehome of Kopperl, Ed Hayden of 

 Moran and S. D. Penny of Watauga. 



Although every animal was immune to Texas fever 

 they were subsequently required to undergo immuni- 

 zation against another species of tick fever in Brazil, 

 with the prospect of a considerable mortality. 



The property of this company, consisting of some 

 10,000,000 acres of land, lies in the southern part of 

 Brazil, the head offices being at Sao Paulo, which 

 lies at an altitude of some 2,500 feet above sea level 

 and is 60 miles inland. At last accounts it was esti- 

 mated that the syndicate had acquired over 200,000 

 head of cattle, which number was likely to be in- 

 creased to half a million. The entire country, how- 

 ever, is infested with ticks, and this complicates 

 somewhat the problem of improving the native cattle 

 with imported bulls. The Brazilian cow is a good- 

 sized animal, much larger than the old-time Texan, 

 and the entire country is covered with a wonderful 

 growth of grass which is kept down by burning, the 



