Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-08

The Rural World says, 1t is a interesting
fact and worthy of note that a number of
cattle that have been bred in this country
have been purchased at high prices, and
have been taken to England for breeding.
1t is only a few days since five of the best
cattle that Kentucky could produce arrived
in New York on their way to England for
this purposes.
The Kansas City Price Current publishes
a letter from a prominent cattle trader and
banker of Kansas, giving as accurate infor-
nation of the cattle drive from Texas the
coming season as can be obtained. The let
ter is from San Antonio, Tex, and gives the
names of owners and number of cattle in
each herd, footing up in aggregate 25s,000
head. This does not inclnde cattle which
have been wintered in the Indian Territory.
About one-third Of the whole number will
be contract cattle, and one-half stock cattle.
The most of the drive will be concentrated
in Kansas, between Dodge City and Ellis, so
that advantage may be taken of rates over
either the Kan. Pac. Or Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroads.
Says the London Agricultural Gazette :
What is a thoroughbred? All domesticated
races are artificial, and therefore less firmly
fixed those formed by Nature on Darwin's
principle. Any cultivated breed is certain,
if deprived of human skill in matching suita-
BILE parents, to degenerate, and probably in
time Though this would require a long
period) would reassume the form of one or
other Of the wild races of which it was made
up /; this, however, being modified by the
climate and soil of the country where it be-
came feral.
Australia is becoming largely interested in
cattle breeding, and several stockmen have
had the purest bred shorthorns and Here
fords. Some of the best shorthorn blood of
England has gone to Australia. American
ca~ttle-groWers may expect as lively compe-
tition in beef as we have for some years had
in Wool-groWing.
+. E. Wright, Secretary Rocky Mountain
Wool-GroWers' Association, says, in a cir
cular, that sheep came through the late Sc
we're storm in Colorado much better than
was expected. 1t was the most severe
storm that has been experienced for the last
eight years, yet the loss in Northern Color
ada and Southern Wyoming was about two
per cent. In Arrapahoe, Elbert and Doug
lass counties, n and one-half per cent,
while in Southern Colorado it did no ex-
ceed one per cent. Those who had hay for
their sheep were fortunate. Mr.. Wright in
slsts upon ten tons of hay to one thousand
sheep in case of emergencies. Flocks in
best condition suffered least. Mexican sheen
brought UP from New Mexico last fall lost
heavily. Thinnish old ewes and feeble
could not endure the two DAYS of
storm without food. Mr.. Wright makes
many practical suggestions, showing that he
is well posted in the sheep business in Col
orado.
Mr.. Geo. Ayrault, a stock fancier. of
county, N. Y, has now on exhibit
ton at Philadelphia his great OK Champion,
which weighs nearly 1000 pounds. He also
offers $500 to anyone exhibiting at the Cen
[ennlal a heavier and better heifer of any
ase, pedigree or nation, than his celebrated
: Queen of Cattle.'
a monster OK, five years old, weighing
100 pounds, will represent A2iddletown.
y. s, at the Centennial. He is of Enolish
twenty-five hands high, and !
measures twenty-five feet from the tip Of his
lose to the end of his tail. His exhibiting
will be 5000 pounds. His owner