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AMERICAN AGKRIC ULT URIST. 
[October, 
DRIVING CATTLE, WHAT IS A OUR BUSINESS? 
such aa we have heard and read of lias gone, 
never to return in our present territory. The 
influx of settlers into this Western country is 
astonishing, and the public range being public 
pastoral system must give place to another in 
which these half-wild stock can no longer be 
raised with profit. With the necessity for pur¬ 
chased and fenced stock farms a more profitably 
of the long-legged, raw-boned, long-horned 
Texan. The market relieved from the competi¬ 
tion of this coarser stock will certainly not be 
less remunerative, and prices can in no case fall. 
TEXAN CATTLE IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, NEAR FORT DODGE. 
property is open to all comers. The rights of 
the smaller drovers already trench upon the 
facilities of the larger ones, and it is only a 
question of time how soon this semi-barbarous 
fed stock must be kept. Grades of good beef i 
stock, Shorthorns, Devons, and Herefords, with | 
those of Ayrshire and perhaps Jerseys to supply I 
the demands for dairy cows, will take the place I 
The outlook is favorable for a profitable busi¬ 
ness in raising and feeding beef cattle for the 
Eastern markets in place of shipping corn, and 
this is a consummation devoutly to be wished. 
WAGONS 
