The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-29

ock.Raisin in the West.

S~tOck.tndlSluS In tu0 Wcets
The freedom to pasture cattle on ex-
ceIlent grazing land, together with an
accessible market, are the main reasons
why at present stock-farming is particu-
Iarly profitable. The first of these con-
ditions is precarious, and it is evident
that in ten years there will not be much
good free range left east of the Missouri
river. When immigration to that extent
shall have shut him off from free pastur-
age, the stock man can either sell his
farm at probably four times its present
value, and move to Dakota or Montana,
or else turn his attention to ~fattening
stock on grain for other parties.
For instance, as a practical case, there
is a cattle man of Council Bluffs who is
said to own 100, 600 head of cattle in
Idaho. He has a range of sixty square
miles. of land not worth a cent to the
acre for agriculture, yet affording excel
lent pasture for CATTLE, He has ten men
employed at wages varying from $24 to
$40 per month to look after the stock.
These men require 200 ponies to handle
the CATTLE, An oyerseer is hired at
81, 200 year. During the winter, how
ever, four men can do all the work re-
quired, which is mainly breaking the ice
in the streams that the cattle may have
water. Streams serve as the great checks
upon the cattle straying away, for they
never will go far from water. In the
spring of the year the cattle men of the
plains have a grand Ground up Gas it
is called), the stock is picked out by
means of the brand, and those cattle
that are meant for the Eastern market
are started for Omaha. They travel
oLo,k 41- -o51a. lo- o-I oo-
orally take the whole season in
ground to the Missouri bottom. At
Omaha the cattle are put on the train
and shipped nominally to Chicago, but
Freallyto-different points along the road,
| to be handed over to farmers for fatten-
ing, Nj. Stewart delivered. over 1 1900
| head to farmers last fall, and of these
only eight were lost during the winter.
The parties who receive the cattle agree
to fatten them at the rate of 5 cents for
every extra pound of weight they add to
the animal. This seems small at first
sight, but when cattle put on $50 extra
pounds during a winter, and where two
hogs are fed from the refuse of each OK,
the farmer finds that the result to him is
equivalent to selling his corn at 100 per
cent. profit. The large cattle-raisers, of
course, nave their inspectors, who travel
from farm to farm to look after their
property, and gather it. together In the
I spring for shipment to Chicago, where
| they are either slaughtered ior shipped
to Europe. The cattle men have aigreat
advantage over mere farmers, INT that
they are to a great extent independent
of railways. If they are badly treated
by one corporation, they have a simple
sremedyindriying theirstockafewmi1es
to the next road.-Harper's Magazine.
truth About the Dog.
AS a matter of fact, the dog has all
seasons for his own, and goes mad Just
when he pleases. &c is aomistakes Ito
confine his suppression and limit the
bounty on him to any month in the
year. With veryRfew and rare excep.
lions he is useless. There should be q
bounty on him oil the year round. Out
side THE sausage he serves AZ purpose,
and in the belief of many he is not al.
4 Together digestible there. He does not
eyeni catch his own heas. He radiates
them rather. OF course, they catch
Ebpds, but the bird doesn't biteCog &c
madE why not keep the birds and abol.
ish the dog a. Occasionally a dog saves
somebody from, drowning, but if figures
could be had we would venture to say
theyinever saved anybody from drown
ing Who did not turn out Il be predes.
tined to some other. death. No doub4
the ST. Bernard dogs have saved somt
people from perishing in the snow, but
history furnishes no record of anything
Il n particular that hasibeen done for the
benefit of the race by the persons saved
Land lit is more than likely that they
would nave had an easier exit if the res
4 eHing dogs had left them alone than.the,
/ did have finally. We do not recall al
instance where a dog has indicated hi;
Treason for being. The friendly dog j
always too demonstrative ; theunfriendl,
dog is a dangerous nuisance, and the dos
that lis neither nor the other onl,
occupies space and generates feas
There are persons who keep bl%unt-noset
dogs that sit on the piazzas OF crouch il
front of you in the p~athlooking unutter
able things and emitting low, gr9wls tina
white teeth only too easily translate
and they tell you, "0h, he's a agoo'
dog !; perfectly harmless minds m
whenever I speak TO him." Shall W
tell you what to do with such. a dog
. Shun his owner. They re both danger
Gus the owner more than the dog.a4
but good dogs, like good Indians, ar
2 dead. Not to invite controversy, W
make special exception of each particu
lar dog whose owner feelsicalled upon t
take issue with us. And we do believ
fhat the quaint Connecticut philosopher
T Mn. Elias Oottren, was moro than ha,
right when he said, There are NOR
than five hundred dogs in this town, an
tive hundred and fifty could do all tn
business IN Y. dribups.