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privileges, for so small a drove. There will be quarrels ; cattle will bo 
Btampoded, aud get mixed with other herds, and at last the owner will be 
obliged either to leave, or take a partner with sufficient capital to properly 
stock the ranch. 
The yearly increase in value of cattle on the ranch will be all the way • 
from 25 to 50 per cent, according as the business is managed. In north? 
west Texas the value of cattle on the ranch is for yearlings $6 ; two year 
old $10 ; three year old $13 ; cows $12 to $15 ; beeves $15 to $20. 
The Cattle Interest of Texas 
To give some idea of the vast numbers of cattle in all that region 
whore there is abundant pasturage and water, it has been estimated that, 
from the Red River, in Clay county, west to the Pease River, and south 
to the Colorado, embracing a territory of perhaps twenty-five thousand 
miles, the whole region is now stocked to its fullest capacity, and the 
better portions thereof, it is estimated that an average of one head may be 
kept to eight acres. The loss in cattle may be estimated at about four or 
five per cent, per year, and the expense of herding 300 head ai.1 their 
produce, has been given as follows : 
DU. 
To three hundred cows and calves 
To two imported bulls, $125..; 
To one man’s time aud boar 1 for live years, $300 per year... 
To one man’s time and board for three years, $300 per year. 
To sundry items of expense 
Total 
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By three hundret ave year olds. $18 
By three hundred four year olds $15 
By three hundred three year olds, $12 
By three hundred two year olds, $10 
By three hundred one year olds, $0 
By three hundred old cows, $10 
By two bulls, §100 
Total 
Less loss 25 per cent 
Original investment 
Profit in five years 
This is approximately correct, except as to the value of the bulls, if 
by these are meant acclimated thorough-bred bulls of Short-Horn, 
Hereford, or Galloway blood. It is well known that it is useless to take 
mature bulls or other cattle raised in the North, to Texas. They die off 
v/ith Texas fever before they have time to leave their impress to any 
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