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many years. At first I started with 20 cows. I had 

 increased that number in a year to 40, and in two years 

 to 60 head. From my experience I am sure that cows 

 grazed on our Western grasses do well, and will give 

 as much milk the year round as they will give any- 

 where. The milk is as rich as from any feed, and will 

 make as much butter and cheese. Cows keep up the 

 quantity of their milk the whole year here as well as 

 anywhere." 



I deem this evidence sufficient. All these gentlemen 

 are well known as men of reliability in the West, and 

 their word may be taken with implicit confidence. 

 They all commenced poor, but now have hundreds of 

 cattle, ranches, horses, mules, oxen, sheep, and are in- 

 dependent in every way. Their experience is that of 

 hundreds of others in the West in the same business, 

 and I could multiply scores of such letters if space per- 

 mitted. Here, then, in the West is one of the widest 

 fields of industry to the emigrant of small means. 

 There are millions of acres of grazing the year round, 

 where all the cows in America might be driven, and 

 there would still be room for more. There are still 

 thousands of unoccupied mountain streams, affording 

 cool water for tens of thousands of dairies. The land, 

 both grazing and timbered, can be had at government 

 price, and the railways are reaching everywhere to 

 carry off the dairy products, either East or West, to 

 market. The difference between the East and the 

 West is that there all is at a stand-still, while here 

 something new occurs every day. 



