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younger take it more liglitly ; like the measles or mumps, 

 it is severe on the old folks, but smites gently the young. 



And, looking the matter carefully over, it seems to us 

 that the change of climate, pure and simple, may indeed 

 exert a less active influence than the germs of the famous 

 ''Texas fever," which lies waiting to seize the stranger, 

 but passes by the native born in silent contempt. We see 

 this action constantly occurring as concerns human beings, 

 why not, then, with the four-footed animals also? 



This being so, it becomes doubly wise to obtain our im- 

 proved stock within our own borders ; and it is, besides, 

 simple justice to those who have had the nerve and perse- 

 verance to invest in blooded cattle, bring them to a new 

 country, and take the consequent losses and risks, in order 

 to make the necessary start on the upward road of im- 

 provement. 



It is only right that these men, the pioneers of the accli- 

 mated, naturalized Jerseys and other full-blooded cattle, 

 should reap the reward of their pluck and foresight, and 

 be given the preference in the purchase of such stock by 

 the Florida settler. 



As yet they are few and scattered, and so little known 

 as breeders that we have been compelled to make inquiries 

 far and wide all over the State in order to obtain the ad- 

 dresses given at the end of this chapter for the convenience 

 of our readers. 



But we have as yet said nothing regarding a breed of 

 cattle which as yet is but little known, save in those local- 

 ities where it first came into notice, the southern parts of 

 Georgia. 



No one knows where the little " Guinea" cow came from 

 originally, only that Colonel Stapler, of Lowndes County, 

 Georgia, owned the first of them. 



We saw it stated once, by whose authority we do not 



