CHAPTER XIII 



HORSE AND STOCK RAISING 



I HOPE no fair reader who honours me by a perusal 

 of these pages will feel aggrieved by my saying 

 that the heading of this chapter instinctively 

 appears akin in my mind with that of the last, 

 viz. " Women on the Prairie." 



If a woman's noblest duties are those connected 

 with motherhood and the rearing of a native- 

 born population, both in a spiritual and material 

 sense, for the great New West, this may not be 

 the lot of all, and it seems to me the mother- 

 instinct may also find scope, and very worthy 

 scope, in helping the men in rearing the farm 

 animal life for which the vast stretches of country 

 are so well fitted. Let us hear a few remarks 

 from these men on the subject of horse and cattle 

 raising. 



The winter was getting along pretty well, though 

 we had had some snaps of intense cold. Once 

 the spirit in the thermometer had touched fifty-five 

 degrees below zero, and on several occasions the 



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