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The Texas Pastures

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The grazínp capacites oí lexag arepioimnent amonp otfcer features ni tlntt State. It is e.t raated tbat 100 oows, bonght for 1.200 number 3,000 head, worth $30,000 in 10 yearR. Sheep husbandry is more commended, as iliis country import 50,000, 000 ponnda of wool anmrtlly. Toxas cnu raisu every vnriety required asdieaply a Buenos Ayres. Tfi ■ pasturage is illimita ble, and the natural increage 100 per cent annunlly. Both cattle and sheep can he grazen the year through, in most of Texas, on bunoh aud grarnma, and other nntritioua grasses; and wben hay is wanted, the grasees cure theoaselyes. The Platte Valley alone has 37,000,000 acres of rich . and the country 1,000,000,000, that will sustain as many sheep. r.nd give finwool and niutton at the lowést "cost - in an animal temperatura of 50 degreee Pa hrenheit. The water is good and abundant, and the gra zing belt, wl ioii stretchc-3 west of the íiio Grande, will lio reaehed at Fort Worth, by tho Tesos & Pacific Ilailroad in 1871.

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Old News
Michigan Argus