The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-05-02
NO. 80


I sold is bought of wholesale merchant:
IN Austin, and some in Galveston. Th,
town is the home of Sayers, and of G.
: W. Jones, and of Phil Claiborne, and
7 many Others identified with the history
I and fortunes of Texas.
THE STOCK SHOW.
The attraction on the twepty-feurth
was the county stock show. Major
5 Moore began to introduce fine cattle
, before the war, and a few Others fol.
lowed in a modest way, but within the
last five years the fine stock fever has
been growing in fervof until 1t is not
fashionable TO be without thorough
bred horse or COW, or hog, or 10 possess
flock of fine sheep. Everything must
have pedigree. The dogs and the
geese, and the ducks and the chick
ems have celebrated ancestral lines. and
the lower insects, especially the heas,
put on the high.bred style. But the
show; 1t was held on Court House
Square, a well-enclosed space, and
Judge Moore, the district Judge, ad-
journed court in honor of the lordly
beasts. The weather was delightful,
and the green grass aud shady trees
made the spot pleasant enough. The
Bastrop Independents Bsass. Band, I"
whether created by Col. G. w. Jones
or not, gave excellent music,
adding much to the pleasure
of the occasion. A great many
people were present, most OF
them, of course, of Bastrop county,
but many from the adjoining or more
distant counties, twelve or fifteen hun
dred in all, and among these many
handsome and well-dressed ladies.
THE OBJECT
of the show is simply 70 compare
stock, and keep alive the interest felt
in the production of fine stock. Ssyers
e Walton, NJ jNr A. w. Moore. Price
S Moore and James Moore are the
principal breeders, who make a busi-
ness out OF producing fine stock, but
many others are going into it as an oc-
cupatiOn, and many take interest In
possession for family advantages
derived from it.
The following stock was shown:
Styers & Walton exhibited the fol-
lowing Shcrt-horns: Bull, Anderson
Lane" 6 years old, bred by Baldwin
& Pearcn, of Maysviile, Kentucky
weight, 2045 pounds. Mary Gay, 3
years old, Tennessee bred; weight 1119
pounds. Rubelle Nicholson, 1 year
old past, Tennessee bred; weight 9SS
pounds. Lady Dixie, year old past,
Texas bred; weight 1896 pounds.
cara, l ear old, Texas raised; weight
9f6 pounds. Mollie, year old, Texas
raised; weight e63 pounds.
Msjor A. w. Moore exhibited one
Shori-horn bull, A years old, .'Dick
Coke" from Cockell's herd, Nashville,
Tennessee; weight 1851 pounds; a
magnificent animal. Matte Miller, z
years old; weight 1872 pounds. Mat
tie Miller the fourth. gear old;
weight Cos pounds. Bette Smith, 2
year old COW, Texas raised, with fine
bull calf, calved February 10, 1878.
The calf sold to Withers, of Caldwell
county, for $3.50 cash. Miss Harris,
months old. Lady Boyle the Sixth,
third Texas generation, years old
weight 1881 pounds. Major Moore
showed thirteen head of thoroughbred
Short -borns, all magnificent creatures.
He also exhibited horse colt Pilgrim
age, by Pilgrimage, ont of Morse Rose,
l year old, and Prim Rose, by Pilgrim,
sucking colt; also mare with yearing
Boy. Orphan Boy is fourteen
hands high; also three yearling Cots
void bucks, one buck weighing 1919
pounds, and an eve weighing 152
pounds; also, Brahma chickens and
two red fox hounds that caught three
jack rabbits before ~ O'Clock the day
before the exhibition.
Capt. r. ]. Price exhibited thor
oughbred bay filly, Fairy Bell" full
sister to Little Reb" Little Reb
was bred and raised by Capt. Price.
OF hogs he had three Berkshires, two
gifts, five months old, weighing 154
and 149 pounds. and sow, sixteen
months old, weighing 200 pounds.
Moore s. Price exhibited five grade
Short-horns-ore aged beef COW, sew
en.eighths bred, 1910 pounds; two of
them calves; one November calf, 4S0
pounds, the other an October calf, 463
pounds.
A. A. Erhard, Short-horn milch-cow
and her calf; COW bought of Major
Sayers; gives six gallons of milk per
day.
B. G. Duvall, JERSEY bull, "Alamo;"
fifteen months old, No. 299S, fawn;
jersey heifer. ''Mosetta IL, I" No. 1912.
Capt. ]. II. Gillespie, thoroughbred
Jersey heifer, six months old, for which
$500 would not be taken, and six
months old Short-horn-b both of them
imported; also grade Jerseys.
Ed B. Bnrleson, two Herefords, one
bull and one heifer twenty months old,
weighing 986 and 920 pounds.
r. A. Green, Rose of Sharon bull,
from Cockrell's herd, fourteen months
old.
A. ]. Bats, graded Durham milch
cow with graded Jersey heifer calf;
four gallon COW.
w. G. Miller, Rebel FLY twenty
three months old; over fifteen hands
high weight $780,
G. w. Shafer, Rebel FLY twenty five
! months old.
A. o. Beck, Morgan colt, twelve
menths old; weight 7G5. Also two
Missouri bred mares.
B. Myer, four Poland China pigs
three months old.
James Moore. aged boar, SOW and
pig, thoroughbred Berkshires. Thor
oughbred beef COW IN foe condition.
He will have 100 beeves at Austin on
next Monday.
julie Blackwell, three Poland China
pigs. eleven weeks old.
A. B. Hemphill. Leviathan and Glen
coe mare, with fine colt.
Gus Eschberger, lstaiIon, five years,
Old Joe stock, fine harness horse.
C1pt. Jack Nash, Pekin ducks.
w. G. Powell, ''Lady Beauty" full
blood Poland China SOW fourteen
months old, weighing $50 pounds,
and her pig ''Sallie Powell" F" full blood
Poland China, five months old, weigh
ing 112 pounds.
p. J Gill, two Poland China sows;
one with pigs. sire Buffalo Bill, dam
Bessie Turner, the first one year old.
imported from Shepard & Alexander,
Charleston. Illinos. One Poland China
toar pig. nine months, eight days cid,
weighs 257 pounds.
T. G. CaIR, editor Of the Bastrop
Adrertiser, one Berkshire male, Eve
months old one Berkshire gilt; one
seyen-eightbs AIderbey male; one
fye-eighths Durham female.
J. ID. Oliver, some thoroughbred
Jersey stock; one fourteen months
old. weighing SO pounds.
j. w. Fiizwiiliams exhibited thor