The Texas Cattle Trade

It is estimated that the cattle dnven ;o Kansas this year will be about 260,000 head. ïliey will reach the Arkansas by the middle of June. It is stated that most of the cattle are one and two years old steers; very few cows or lieifers will be brought in. In bringiBg young cattle, the drivers show that they are proiitting by experience. Young ïexas cattle, reared on Kansas grass, can hardly be told from native jattle. The sandstone grasses of Texas give to the cattle liorns and bones, and rough, coarse muscles, with but little fat or tallow. The limestona grasses of Kansas give to the animáis short horns, light bones, fine muscles and abundance of fat or tallow. Any aged Texas cattle can be improved by a year or two of keeping on Kansas grasses, but the effect of such keeping on young cattle is more marked and distinct. With the slow growth of Texas there will be for years yet vast plaina that will afford, by their climate and grasses, fine iields for breeding purposes; but the field for rearing and fattening purposes by herding, by reason of the rapid growth of Kansas uu Nebraska, is growing less every day The time is not f ar off whenthe Bufia lo range and cattle range in this State will be occupied by farms, towns am cities. Hut this does not necessarily argüe a decrease in the amount o beef; for when that time has come nearly every farmer will have his pas ture fenced, and, like farmers in Oliio and Illinois, tind it prolitable to feed or fatten more or less beeves for tho mar ket, drawing his stock supplies f'ron Texas. This will give to Kansas the cream oi' the Texas cattle trade, anc the east a superior article of beef. -