La Junta tribune., 1910-07-16

dollars and fifty cents per acre and
much a. fifty cents and one doll
Tn purchasers have never seen ,E-
lan1 Ta-y do not realize, even 1T .ra
srtssia1 water may be had. thai 81
Kill cost too much TO sink a weU 20
waller a ten OF twenty acre tract. 10
make il profitable The goyernm at
stepped 10 and stopped one conc -u.
the Demon Colony Company, from IFS
proposed sale and drawing after E
had sold over 5Geyc acres IL
la1,!s were sold, the largest nun b. r
IN Texas. the next in Arizona aud the
taird. iu Oklahoma. the balance b. aE
scattered throughout the In I'd
States.
Near Victoria I saw a uumbs- -
BEaamz cattle. the sacred cattle VI
india These cattle are being need
Ia breeding 10 the native TEXAS .af-
tIs. These Brahma cattle are soHs
larger than the native cattle. Ta.
new czftle thus grown are muct
ter cattle than the native cattle. Tasy
are harder. feed better and th-sr
better and all ! saw were farier AID
In finer condition than the NJ s
Texas catlIs They possess one grr a.
advantage. They are immune from
ticks. Texas cattle ar. all inf ted
with ticks. which suck their blood
and make them poor or deter tl..-
gTJNtLs The tick, certain kim %
tick. Is the cause Of Texas fever. and
for this reason Texas cattle are Guar.
aHtiu.d and can not enter the uu-ra-
.ru states until after frost. II no be-
eru cattle should cross the ira 9i
herd o; TcIas cattle. In the s.m-
IL r. IA" northern cattle will all .s..
th. Texas fever and almost all %
them will de The Texas ca.r,
themselves do not have the T.Eas
fever They are rendered inn .1s
when young. by being bitten HE
'hss. ticks The reason thes. E-aa-
ma lred cattle are not Infested ra
ticks Is supposed 10 lie because r.a.E
skin Is too thick for the tick .a
penetrate 10 the blood The Bra aa
csfrl. haE. a hump over the SID.
d.Fs This does not show but l..I..
IL a. all. iu the cross breeding. A..h
OF srst-ru and southern Texas 8. a
large pastuTrs, often 80 .O"o or 10. "H
acres or NOR. where hundred nf
thousands Of eartle are stin rs .I
The Brahma bred cattle are ...
troubled 20 much by nies and ..
quilJ.s and. being quite free f..u
those Insect pests, they are Vo- t
loss and feed better and. hence. ....
ten and zrD3 more than the O.. ..
uaril- Th'y are a sleek and D. d..
some cattle
There ar. many amusing 4
strange things % b. seen hy .r
traveller la the south There a
farmer and stock raiser n,sr this
place. who farms on the r. river
aud raises caItl. aud hars the
timber bottoms iir haS q Of
aJout on. hundred or NOR, a-s Ills
children herd these hoEs. .. horse
tack, keeping charge Of la.4 all
day aud driving them home u. lights
About a dozen of these hos. wear
bells and they tinklr. tiuklr end ring.
a. the hogs feed OF wander out In
the thick brush Al anothsr 1lac. |
saw a small drove Of shoals caring
yokcs TO prevent them from going
through the wire feuC's .alo the
field. The yoke consisted ul d stick
or piece OF wood about 0ur loot or
fifteen Inches long. fastened about
the hogs neck ~ a h'a'y r.rc. 10
that the stick VAS carried urr sht a.
one side When nrst Travelled over
southwest Texas many year ago, /
sa~ hogs pieket-d With ROY. This
Was don" by AeAicauss ou far tou'
Chos. above san Angelo
There is quite a spirited rivalry be-
tween the thre. largest Dilss Of
Texas Dallas. Houston aud san An.
tonio-cach claiming to BE- ,bs great.
est Ia population. They ar, each
about OF near one hundred rapusand
In population They are All prosper
Gus. groWinE oiti's Dallas b. 10 tb.
nouh aud h the best bHs.urH city.
Houston Ia the most outerprHug and
Is struggling To obtain deep water
har sor. Houston il but rt'y uties or
slightly lss from Galveston. aud l.
on bayou OF narrow, deep rhannei.'
which l. being improved ~iib a view
to .nlarging and deepening the chan.
n.l to admit ocean going vessels. Tn.
government has spent large sums OF