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the largest and best breeders of Zebu' cattle. The Zebu 
cattle are good looking animals and have a good many 
points to recommend them for this country and this people. 
They are not, however, as I see it, strictly beef or milk 
cattle. But as general purpose animals in this country 
and under the conditions under which they appear to have 
many points to recommend them. The two Mr. Lomao's at 
Pratinha speak in the highest terms of these cattle. Mr. 
Pedro Lamao has a cow, "PaUnku" that he refused 10 cantos, 
about $3500, for. He sold his bull calf at weaning time 
for six cantos, about $3000. This breed of cattle is 
praised by some and condemned by others. It no doubt has 
its place in this country and possibly in others. A day 
or two after returning to Lavras we packed our trunks and 
left for a day or two stop at Sao Joao Del Rey, a city of 
8,000 or 10,000 that we stayed a night in on our way to 
Lavras. Here we made some interesting photographs and 
collected herbarium specimens and seed of quite a number 
of the range grasses. We met here a Mr. Fisher who rep- 
resents or looks after putting up locomotives for the 
locomotive works which has been in this country for about 
seven years. He had been to Lavras and knew the people 
there. On January 28th we Left for Sitio, a junction 
point where we had to change cars for Baroaclna en-route 
to Belle Horizonte and Pirapora. We had several hours 
here so struck out for the campo. By accident I found 
three pera de campo fruits on a section flat car, along 
the track five or six miles from Sitio where I had gone to 
get a photograph of a Spirea-llke flowering plant. Wilson 
was not with me and I could not make the man understand 
that I wanted to know where they found them. I returned 
to Sitio and we put up for the night. Early next morning 
we hit the track for five or six kilometers back down the 
track to where the section men were working the day be- 
fore. We found them near the* same place and Wilson had 
no difficulty in finding out where we could get some fruit 
of 'pera de campo 1 , in fact, one of the men went with us 
into an adjoining pasture and showed us plants and fruits. 
We got all we could find. I also got some of the plants. 
After getting the fruit we went back to the hotel arid 
photographed them. We then arranged to send our grips to 
Barbacena by train, and about 2:30 we started for the same 
town afoot. It is about sixteen kilometers from Sitio. 
We arrived in Barbacena about seven, got our baggage and 
went back to the hotel. "On the way from Sitio to Barba- 
cena we made several photographs characteristic of the 
country. The next morning, after arriving at Barbacena, 
we looked up Mr. Brainard and Mr. Wright, two North Ameri- 
can boys, one from California, the other, Wright, from 
Pennsylvania. They are in charge of agricultural work at 
