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mense large truck garden to sup- 

 ply our ever increasing market 

 with all the fine garden and field 

 products needed. The black and 



light sandy soil is very fertile, is 

 comparatively level, and supplied 

 with inexhaustible subterraneous 

 water. 



Near Extinction of Texas Bob Cat 



The Wild Cat or "Bob-Cat," 

 "Catamomit" is one of those wild 

 jungle animals that has, sp far, 

 survived the longest of all the 

 Texas wild eat family of our prai- 

 rie plains ; but they are gradually 

 becoming extinct as the years roll 



and cactus jungles, close to the 

 farms and rivulets. 



In those olden times, lots of 

 them could be met with during 

 hunting trips, especially in the 

 thickets around Mitchell's Lake 

 and hilly regions close to the city 



Face View of Texas Wild Cat 



on, especially near inhabited re- 

 gions. 



In olden days, our Bobcat 

 roamed around the chaparral 

 and hilly regions near San An- 

 tonio promiscuously and numer- 

 ously in the remote plains, forests 



but the rapid' onmarch of civili- 

 zation, with aid of modern fire 

 arms and traps, has cleared the 

 jungles and farming districts of 

 most of them. The writer, when 

 a mere boy, had often met a wild- 

 cat close to town and in particu- 



