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Immense tracts of land are also devoted to stock-raising for the purpose of furnishing beef for shipment to England in fresh condition. This province contains nearly a million square miles, and is therefore ten times larger than Victoria, and fifteen times larger than England.
He has gathered them at the telegraph stations, where they cultivate fields of mandioc, beans, potatoes, maize, and other vegetables, and where he is introducing them to stock-raising; and the entire work of guarding and patrolling the line is theirs. After six hours' march we came to the crossing of the Rio Sacre at the beautiful waterfall appropriately called the Salto Bello.
Not your educated Indians are reaping the benefit of your government's belated attention, but those who are following the calling for which nature has fitted them stock-raising and small farming on their allotted reservations. The educated ones know that the government will feed and clothe them why should they exert themselves?
All the smaller fruits do well here, and the melon family find in this soil their true home; they are raised by the acre, and sold by the wagon-load, in the neighborhood of Chicago. Stock-raising is undoubtedly the most profitable kind of farming on the prairies, which are so admirably adapted to this species of rural economy, and Illinois is already at the head of the cattle-breeding States.
The Captain grunted again. "And last year we grew a hundred acres of milo maize and feterita. Helped on the winter feed didn't it, Daddy?" and she laughed. "Got me there, Frances got me there," admitted the old ranchman. "But I don't hope to live long enough to see the Bar-T raising more wheat than steers." "No. It's stock-raising we want to follow, I believe," said the girl, calmly.
"But you're taking the nature out of it." "It will see me through if I fallow," said Grant. "When I've done with it and sell out, somebody else can experiment with mixed crops and stock-raising. That's going to become the general plan, but it's costly at the beginning." Then he rose. "I'll walk round the place with you." They went out, and the girl fell behind with Edgar.
Besides attending to his business in the mines, and superintending his affairs in Sacramento, Uncle James had devoted a portion of his time to stock-raising; and, when Frank and Archie first saw his immense droves of horses and cattle, they thought them sufficient in numbers to supply all the markets in America. Mr. Winters's rancho was not managed like the farms in our part of the country.
I've been corresponding with my people, and asking my father if it is possible for me to get into the regulars. He wrote back `No, with three lines underneath, and said I must go back to stock-raising till my country wants me again to unsheath the sword." "Well," said my father, smiling, "what do you say to that?" "Nothing at all, sir," replied Denham, with a smile.
The first four outbreaks occurred in the eastern States, and the disease was prevented from spreading to the principal live-stock centers of the country, and the leading stock-raising States by slaughtering the diseased and exposed animals and by county and State quarantines.
Abbot was the wife of the doctor of the Foss River Settlement and had known John Allandale from the first day he had taken up his abode on the land which afterwards became known as the Foss River Ranch until now, when he was acknowledged to be a power in the stock-raising world.
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