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VOE. XXIX. No. 5 
WHOLE No. 1253. 
NEW YORK AND ROCHESTER N. Y„ JAN. 31 1874 
PRICE SIX CENTS, 
S2.50 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act ol Congress, In the year 1874, by the Kural PubllBhinB Company, to the Office of the r.ii.ronim of Congress at Washington.] 
from place to place, while the saddle and reach the rendezvous; anti there will be distance and plac( 
other traps are piled up or spread out around from twenty-live to a hundred men assem- the sorting is finisl 
the camp, and the herders are passing their bled to the grand “ round up,” which takes spoken and each m 
time playing cards at so much a corner, place once a year. Station 
(gambling is an indispensable accomplish- These are gala days, and such grand fun! Next comes the s 
ment for a first-class herder.) Everybody is in good spirits and full of fun. herd to market. 
With a herd of cattle numbering five thou- All kinds of jokes and witticisms go the good judgment an 
sand, there will be five or six men and an round, and all kinds of gossip. Skirmishes of the ranchmen ii 
overseer. The duties of these men are light with the Indians comes in for no small share, lied of their appro; 
while there is grass near the streams. But with now and then a tussle with a grizzly be kept out of ti 
the scene changes as Hie season advances, thrown in by way of sauce. The conaumn- n.. u, ' 
HERDING CATTLE IN NEW MEXICO 
EXPERIENCE WITH OXEN 
i iiavk been thinking for some time of 
giving my brethren of the farm some of my 
experience with oxen. I was left by Sheri¬ 
dan’s Cavalry in 1$05 minus my horses, which 
