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breeding. The three-year-old heifers which they 

 had spayed brought $50 per head at Bovina in the 

 autumn of 1913, and the two-year-olds $40 per head. 



The Warren firm owns also the 250,000-acre 

 Alamo Hueco Eanch in New Mexico, which joins the 

 International line and lies exactly 16 miles north of 

 the north line of fence of the Ojitos in Old Mexico. 

 They first began operations at Bovina in 1902, with 

 the purchase of 40,000 acres of land, and later on 

 added 45,000 acres more. This is what is known as 

 the Mule Shoe Ranch. This land was used for 

 grazing purposes only until last year, when the 

 townsite of Muleshoe and 83,000 acres of land were 

 sold. 



Manager C. K. "Warren says : 



"We conunenced the purchase of Hereford bulls 

 the first year we went into the business. In our ex- 

 perience this is the only breed of cattle for ranch 

 purposes, especially when cattle are handled in 

 large herds, as they are the best rustlers, have 

 thicker hides, carry the most uniform flesh, stand 

 cold better, produce a larger percentage of calf crop 

 and it takes less feed to carry them than with other 

 cattle. Still we have been putting in every other 

 year a few Shorthorns with good results. They 

 have a little more bone and the cows give more milk 

 for the calves. 



"We have now a herd of purebred Herefords in 

 Michigan from which we are raising and shipping 

 our registered bulls to a purebred herd, not regis- 

 tered, in Mexico. Our purebred herd in Mexico 

 numbers about 800 and from this we are raising 

 bulls that are used for breeding purposes both in 

 Mexico and New Mexico. We have gone out of the 



