222 TEXAS CATTLE. 



for Texas cattle, the Southwest would wait long years before possessing 

 many herds of improved varieties. It is wonderful what results obtain 

 in a few years from a single improved bull, placed with Texas cows. 

 There is no dying of such offspring by acclimating fever, and if the bull 

 only survives until the cows are served, he has more than repaid his 

 cost. It is this fact which has stimulated the demand for thoroughbred 

 bulls during the last decade, and placed thousands upon thousands 

 of Hereford, Aberdeen, Galloway, Shorthorn and other grades upon our 

 ranges. The breed originally known as Texas Cattle will, before many 

 years, be a thing of the past, but its descendants, combining the blood 

 of improved varieties, will give a different character in the future to 

 Texas cattle sold for eastern markets. 



The engraving is an e^act reproduction of a photograph taken 

 under our immediate direction August 4, 1888, and may be accepted as 

 a fair likeness of a native Texas ox. (The horns of the animal repre- 

 sented in the illustration measured at time the photograph was taken 

 three feet five inches from tip to tip, and the animal five years old 

 weighed about 1,000 Ibs.) 



