DYING IN THE CACTUS COUNTRY.
, , THE-.CATTLE OF THE STATES. .'■;-'■•'■ There.are 27,000,000 cattle in'the United ; .States,- says a A'ew Zealander who has just'visited America. Tho traveller, who ..■' -was, particularly interested in Holsteins, ■ !'.Vent on to say that only, 210,000 of the .total" were of the black aad white breed. " ' ,' He was.asked by a Dominion representative, which breed was in tho majority, '.and'-replied that it "was .a very -scraggyiindbi animal, which bore the colour of a'Hereford.'hut-was obviously a native cross some . description. . . It was on the barren cuctus. land that these cattle, were seen in hundreds, and the wonder was that they existed at all. HundrKls of them, he said, were lying dead in the paddocks. ;-.■.•■ .': !, • The. cattle practically 'could not. get' .■water,', and in some parts of Texas, Indiana, and Colorada there had not been any'rain for nine months. 'Australian Country : -P. and A. and Settlers', Associations are; ainorigeffic' Bobscribers to; the Farrer''memorial fund.-
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8
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153DYING IN THE CACTUS COUNTRY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8
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