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quality, giving little moro milk than wild buffalo — scarcely enough for 4 
few months Summer support of a calf — they were for generations run 
down like wild beasts and slaughtered for their hides and scanty tallow. 
The gradual settlement of the country, and the increasing demand for 
beef, both in Europe and America, at length caused them to be moved 
inorth into Kansas for summer pasturage, whence they were driven to the 
nearest railway, station, shipped east and slaughtered, either for packing, 
®r sold at an inferior price for consumption of flesh. 
Various attempts have been made to reduce them to subjection to man 
*o they might be divided into small herds to be confined in pastures or 
fed in winter. It has been in every instance unsuccessful. They remain 
shy wild, irritable, and refuse to fatten kindly. The writer, immediately 
in Texans. 
Feeding Texans in Confinement. 
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They were bought in Kansas and were known as Cherokee cattle, a 
modified form of Texans, bred by the civilized tribes of the Indian reser- 
rations occupying the territory between Kansas and Texas They had to 
I? lassoed and dragged into the stables and made fast to the stanchions. 
