The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-05-10

all are again let loose. Early N y
the CREST droves commence. o.,.t
aid out cattle trails are observed. ]
the herds pasture as they msrch J.
worth, on the line of the Kansas D.
railway, lis q wonderful place IN,
weeks of the year. Early in sum,a.
is thronged by Texan rancbmen
drovers; also with immense hasa
Texan steers. At this point the !.
are shipped. Some never chanpe u
but in general sales are effected u :
sas City. From Kansas City,these ].
fed Texans drift off into Missou,;
Illinois, there to be part corndsa
shipped east in September; and :.
the first of September Others a..
warded direct and are sold in New y,
Philadelphia, and Boston for what \
fetch. The flesh of the grassfed M
steer lis coarse and hard, the color i !,
and fat lis scarce. Again, other b.,l
from Texas, those fhat constitute d
end of the run, are purchased by ksa,.
and, being housed, are fattened d n.
ers' refuse, and ere TO be found m \.
markets of New York from Mara N
the middle Or end Of MAY MI
doomed tie execution arrive ON Tho !,
ern markets earlier In the year than
the stin-fed Texan herds. From T.,|
by Ellsworth, also through Denver n
pass year by year countless droys
Texan cattle. These droves, old
young, COVE, calves and steers, IN
feed Indians and miners, and sucb
people, forced to live on the skirA
civilization. Rarely, indeed, are /
driven from Texas. The herds in d
RADIO, Wyoming and Montana are \
ged, hard-boned class, bred from
Texan COW and native bulls obt,i
from the eastern states. Thus il
breed improved; and even already 4.
bulls OF undoubted pedigree are to
seen west of the great rivers. Ever
ally Colorado and parts of Wyoming
be the source from whence the east
derive its supply of beef. The cir
of Colorado in two winters render
Texan steer healthy; that is, the b
loses the incipient disease known
Texan fever, a losfhsome affiiction
to be found In the liver Of even
otherwise perfectly healthy Texan sa
and sickness that is highly eontag,
80 much so that herds supposed 10
clean have been known to leave the
ease ON their trail, and serious los
thus been sustained among native h
which have passed over or been pasa
on the tainted lands.
The weekly average of beet cattle
on the open market for the Iyear end
December 81, 1878, was $685. ID
About 5000 head supplies weekly
the home trade. In this is inclu
New York city, Brooklyn, Jersey
Newark, Patterson, Staten Ialand
many minor places lying a6jacsnt.
gives AN average of close ,un 2,0O0l
weekly shipped for foreign ports
exporr trade demands the most ~
herds that reach the Atlantic seaba
and has been carried ON throngh
seasons OF the year both by trsa
dressed beef and by the shipment Of
cattle. The recent order of then
council, which now hampers trad
American cattle, is the result 81
much haste on the part of Amtd
ahippers. The fear of contagion ispn
and should have been guarded 81
Had the best course been observei
che general benefit of the Trade, NOS
meuts of live cattle should have
made after the Lat of October until
LIST of April. A fat beast taken frop
open cattle-yard. and shut Ibelowhaid
is far more likely to develop d.
than were he exposed to the nnostsss
weather. The hot air between
causes feveriahness and congestor
some one or other .of the inner on
and pleuFo-pneumonia is most freqns
developed, albeit the beast was q
and healthy when placed ON board
the other hand, animals carried
deck-load in fine weather, improve
the first two or three days, the -
invigorates them, and che total
causes them to improve in condition
appearance. The great edealeS