CATTLE BREEDING 
tional horses. That will perhaps lead some day to a great 
improvement in the breeding of animals all over the 
country, and especially in Goyaz, which provides the most 
suitable land for that purpose. The same remarks could, 
perhaps, in a slightly lesser degree, be applied to the 
breeding of donkeys and mules. No care whatever was 
exercised by the breeders in order to improve the breeds. 
Everything was left to luck and chance. The result was 
that a degenerate type of animal was produced — 
wonderful indeed, considering the way it was bred, but 
which might be improved to an immense extent and made 
into a remarkable animal, in such a propitious climate 
and with such marvellous pasture lands. 
With cattle, also, it is safe to assert that since the 
colonial time very little fresh foreign blood of any im¬ 
portance has been introduced in breeding — except, 
perhaps, some inferior types of the Indian humped zebu. 
Most of the stock I saw in Southern Goyaz was inter¬ 
mixed with zebu. The formerly existing bovine races, 
such as the Mocha, Coracu, and Crioula, have now almost 
altogether disappeared. 
Unlike most other States of Brazil, Goyaz had no 
Provincial Customs duties. With its immense frontier, 
bordering upon seven different other States, it would be 
impossible to enforce the collection of payments. No 
reliable statistics were obtainable as to the amount of 
exports or imports of the State. Even approximately it 
would be impossible to make a guess as to the actual 
amount of its resources. 
Sugar-cane and tobacco could be profitably grown in 
the State. The small quantity of tobacco grown there 
was of excellent quality. 
The Government of Goyaz Province consisted of three 
Powers: the Executive, represented by the President, 
elected for three years by universal suffrage; the Legis¬ 
lature — a Chamber of Deputies equally elected for 
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