34 HONDURAS. 



The above estimate allows $119,230 to pay for the expenses of 



tin- lu-nl. to provide bulls of high breeding, ami toco\. 



ration of the breeding cows for ten years. ;h:m 



those shown can be realized on this grant, when- all 



are so favorable, and no possible combination of < tin r ini 



can tax the producer unduly for transportation, for .slaiiuli' 



or for selling his stock. As long as the ocr.v 



sels of all nations there will be compel it ii t. UL!I t<> 



charges down to reasonable limits. 



As no fatal contagious disease has ever appeared among the 



cf Honduras, the stock-grower can send hi- 

 two-year-olds and older unfathmd bullocks direct to ii 

 of Europe. This will give him from $10to $1.~> pcrh ad m< 

 his stock than like cattle from the United States would bring 

 on the same market. This would in itself amount 

 profit. 



While it is tnie that the raising of cattle will pay richh 

 growing of horses and mules on the grant will p.; All 



the condition- of -oil, configuration, climate, forage, and 

 graphical location are most favorable. Horses and n> 

 on thoroughly drained, gravelly or rocky soil, particularly i!' 

 hilly or mountainous, are more HIUM uhir. l.anly, . 

 ageous than are those brought up in a tlat count r M main 

 horses and mules are more highly e-teemed than 

 from level lands. Their hoofs and bone- an \\\ 

 tougher than those of it< 



form better developed. 



Many of the horse- of 



teristics of the Arabian MI which they no doubt de- 



scended tlin.i] L 'li itnima 



illier small, clean of limli. hard and li....f. and 



IHC spirit and intci 



are .v : L- 1 tempered even under the i 



\\hich h.rsesand mules are comm.nl\ ^ubj. end by the na( 



used for hard work as much as they \\ould 



