Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21
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The 10th Duke of Airdrie, valued All ~Ao'
Ooo. died recently at The stables OF iis o""
ar. Emery Cobb. Esq, Kankakee' ILL.,
Mr.. Henry S%altonstall, of Massachuse'ts,
recently owned a COW that gave io'e0o
quarts of milk in DIG year, an average "a
nearly &c quarts per day.
According to the annual report Oh lhe
Commissioner of Agriculture, the nui'pe'
Of hogs in the United States i'll 1870 was ~
131 496. In 1874 the number reached ~
$50. 800. +,o
/ Texan cattle drover has bought III tne
southwestern section OF that Stare lor'y
thousand head OF cattle and two Thousand
horses for S14O,O 900 in silver, which is less
than $3.50 per head. ~,
Mr.. Jas. IL. Small, of Buffalo, N. T., VINO
has been spending the past three years III
Europe, returned home recently, bringing
with him two magnificent Clydesdale stall
ions. They are coming three years old both
| beautiful bays, stand Is hands = inches h'sh
and weigh about 1000 pounds each. Wheh
| fully matured they will reach at least IL
hands. They are very heavy limbed ami
mails and possess extraordinary power. Mr..
Small INTENDS them for stock purposes.
At Mr.. Cray's sale at CreigdarnocS, Scot
land, on the 4th inst, fifty-six spring calV-
ing COWS averaged $s4, the highest bring
ing $l26. Twenty calves averaged S2s.
Twenty-three heifers, liz calf, averaged $50,
the highest reaching $l25., and eleven stirks
S5l. 25 each. Two Clydesdales rising tour
wears old sold for $500 and $3.50 each.
The exports OF hog products, beef etc,
from the United States to Great Britain
alone has increased to an enormou extent
within the past six years. The increase in
pork is from 4, 100000 pounds in 1868 to
ll,200,00o pounds in ls74-5. In bacon and
hams the increase is from IL, 500 600 in 1869
to goa, zoe, 900 pounds to 35,S60,GC0 pounds.
There is a COW owned in the vicinity OF
Nashville, Tenn, giving milk, the cream of
which is worked into butter without churn-
ing. The COW is Of common native stock +;
she gives about three gallons of milk a day.
Her milk of the moring is skinned in the
evening and worked into butter, and the
nights milk is made into butter next morn
ing. She has Il heifer that gives the same
kind of milk. The butter is represented as
rich, yellow, firm and delicious.
Mr.. F. B. Starr, the Almous Litchfield,
Conn.,, farmer, had on exhibition in the
Five Stock Department at the Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia, a Jersey COW,
two years and a half old. which is a prolific
mixer. The accurate record Other yield Of
milk for two months is as follows: July
500 pounds; August. 9493 pounds; total for
the two MONTHS l,75S4 pounds. On the 23d
Of August this. heifer weighed just 700
pounds, so that during that month she gave
about one-third more weight Of milk than
her own weight.
The Pueblo Bulletin. says we have Just
conversed with u gentleman who has rec ent-
ly travelled through the Wet Mountain val
leyg1 He says cattle in the valley are quite
nulA sfpus and fat; that in one region, en-
brasipgg some ter or twelve square miles,
: they are so numerous that the sales between
: this and Christmas will amount to not less
than $00, 900. Among the largest owners
are Messrs. Hudson & Seiber, Mr.. Frank &
Hunter Bros, the last of whom have just re.
ceived;; from parties in England, $4,000
) with the request to invest it in cattle.
: Last year we paid foreign countries fifty
: millions Of dollars for wooden goods, anc
eleven millions of dollars for manufactured
goods. When we have in the country
twenty million more Sheep than we nov
have, we shall only produce the wool W.
: use rand yet there is no country ON eartl