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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



THE SPANISH. OB TEXAN CATTLE. 



We take much pleasure in giving our read- 

 ers this month a capital picture of a group of 

 this half civilized, wild-looking race. Our 

 cattle reporter assures us that it is a correct 

 and life-like representation of the specimens 

 he has often seen at Brighton. Their connec- 

 tion with the late cattle disease will give an 

 interest not only to the cut, but to the history 



of the race, both of which we copy, by per- 

 mission, from Mr. Allen's valuable work on 

 "American Cattle." 



We should hardly speak of this strange race 

 of animals, were it not that of late years they 

 have found their way, to some extent, into our 

 sea-board markets. They are descendants of 

 the early Spanish stock introduced into Mex- 

 ico in the sixteenth century. What they were 



