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 With regard to stock in Texas it is a mixture of American & Mexican; in the West they revel in the Musquit grass & get very fat & a?ord from beef, but as one approaches the ?bver part of Eastern Texas Pine woods appear & even in the prairies the grass declines in goodness. Catch? is near honded & must suffer by the Northers & the poorly weather that follows then prged? winds.  Of Horses (Vide) Chapter on Mustangs &c) only the very best are anhonted?, the others remain out all the weather & get shelter in the woods.
 Two English Stallions have been introduced "Smoke" & Lamb
 Of Sheep they claim Mexican pedigree improved a batch in the East by the introduction of American Rams -

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