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TEXAN, OH SPANISH CATTLE. 
Arrangements should also be made for through trip when starting. 
Food, water, and careful watching by the herdsmen will land them at 
the place of disembarkation but little damaged by the trip. Care should 
be taken not to crowd too many in one car — thirty head can be taken if 
they are properly cared for— yet twenty-five head would do much better. 
The calves designed for shipment in one car, if more than one is to be 
.Sent, should be permitted to run together for some time previous to 
Starting, 
After reaching the terminus of their wearisome' journey by rail, a week’s rest, 
in dry lots, should be granted them, with the same kind of food as was used 
before shipment. When taken any distance slow and easy travel should 
be given them. If either costivencss or its opposite is exhibited, simple 
remedies should bo given to prevent the too active purging or relieve the 
constipation. The preparation for their reception at their Texas home 
should have been completed before their arrival ; and in addition to a 
supply of corn, oats, and wheat bran, pure running water and free access 
to a growing oats or barley patch, which should have been sowed in early 
Autumn for their benefit, should be allowed. Suitable protection must 
be provided to guard them from the cold blasts of the “northers then, 
by prompt attention to any symptoms of fever and the immediate use of 
charcoal and ginger, one table-spoonful of charcoal and one tea-spoonful 
of ginger will relieve them.' 
* If December and January are passed without fever you can feel safe 
from its ravages until the rains of Spring, followed by the heat of June, 
V’hcn the ticks and vermin menace them. Then avoid exposing them to 
either rain or sun, and destroy the vermin by a free use of coal oil and 
bird, using two parts of the latter to one of the former. If only Sprint 
calves are brought there will be less of fever than if older animals were 
(brought. 
»--• Top . many speculators, who bring young stock to Texas, stint and half 
. , etayv.e, them, thinking that to keep them in good growing condition 
I, acreages the chances of disease. My observation teaches the reverse to 
■be Duo. To secure a complete development of bone, flesh and growth, 
11 mid. early, profitable maturity, a calf must have generous .care, plenty of 
. , nutritious food, good water, and kind treatment. I have heard men 
oomplam that Texas Short-Horns are not thrifty and handsome, like 
those exhibited at Northern fairs. The reason for the dissimilarity is 
• readily found on investigation to he that the one had excellent feeding 
and growing, while the other — in addition to a long winter, starvation, 
and acclimation, with a Spring and Summer with raiu and hot sun had 
his vitality almost destroyed by ticks and vermin. Cattle from the North 
Ciumot be acclimated unless generous food, comfortable quarters, and 
