TEXAN, OR SPANISH CATTLE. 
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their milking qualities improved, and the whole animal ameliorated, it 
would seem as possible with the Galloway as by any other means wo 
know. It is certainly well worthy of trial. 
Texan Cattle. 
Within the last few years certain theorists have harbored the idea that 
the immense herds that cover the groat plains of Texas, Mexico, and 
America are a race native to the soil, and that have existed there from 
time immemorial. Such however is well known not to be the fact. As 
well may the great droves of horses that occupy the same region be said 
to be a native and wild race. On the contrary, their well known char- 
acteristics, and similarity to the Spanish cattle and all that country including 
Austria, Hungary, and other regions bordering the Mediterranean, Black 
and Caspian seas, points distinctly to their origin, if, indeed, it were not 
well known that they were introduced by the Spanish settlers about. the 
year 1500 and succeeding years. In fact, neither cattle or horses wero 
known in America prior to the Spanish invasion, and that they have mul- 
tiplied so amazingly since is duo to the genial climate and abundant 
pasturage, so that the original cattle brought by the Spaniards succeeding 
the discovery of the various countries along the Gulf of Mexico and 
South America, has caused them to spread over all the region from Cali- 
fornia, to a latitude south, bound only by a line beyond which the coldness 
of .the climate precluded constant Winter and Summer herbane. 
Unlike the wild buffalo, a race indigenous to America, cattle are not 
migratory to any considerable extent. Not so much so as horses. Hcnco 
while, the buffalo is found in Summer far north, even into the British pos- 
sessions, cattle have never been found beyond the limits of abundant 
Summer and Winter pasturage, and they have never been brought into 
subjection by the wild Indians of the plains as were the horses, that escap- 
ing from domestication gradually increased and occupied in a wild state 
many valleys to which cattle never reached. 
Characteristics of Spanish Cattle. 
This race of cattle should therefore he called Spanish cattle whaj» 
they really are ; gaunt, bony, long-horned cattle, semi-wild, capable of 
great enduiance of heat, and adapted to the dry but fertile regions they 
have gradually overrun. So vast has become their numbers that ten 
years ago' these cattle wero estimated at 4,000,000 in Texas and New 
Mexico, being in point of numbers about one-sevonth of all the horned 
cattle in the Union. Semi-wild, impatient of restraint, lean and lank in 
kody, high-boned, furnishing but little meat, and that of an iuferioc 
