The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-02
LIVE STOCK.

THE demand for all kinds of butchering
stock continues active. Cattle are scarce on
the market, and the same anxious enquiry
for mutton, sheep and fat hogs still exists.
Prices are firm at our quotations.
Abilene is receiving large tlocks OF sheep
from New Mexico.
The indianapolis stock-yards had receipts
last year, Of 1, ,S94 hogs, Ia, IA cattle,
and 225, 500 sheep.
Reports received at the department of ag-
riculture in Springfield, are to the effect
that the live stock throughout the state
was never known to be in better condition
than at present.
There are seventeen different railroads
running into Chicago. Every one has con-
Meeting tracks, so that stock-cars can reach
the Union stock-yards.
A Glasgow, Scotland, special says:
Among the cargo ofthe steamer Manitoban,
for Boston, were eighty-three Clydesdale
stations.
Goats are the best land cleaners known.
One thousand head, put on land so brushy
and shrubby that it will not feed stock at
all, will, in three years time, by close
herding, clean out 500 acres that not a
vestige of underground will be left; there
will be thick mating of grass and a sure
profit of from % to 70 per cent. will be
realized off the goats The Angora goat is
as good a browser as the Mexican goat.
BEEF CATTLE-COrn-fed, 3G3h cents.
Balm Cows--Fat 26m24 cents.
STcCK-Per head, S15@s2.
MICH Cows-With calves S25GSiO.
SPRINGERs--Per head Sl09SS0.
HoGs-Corn-fed, 6g6h cents timber fat 400
sHEEP-Iutton, 3J4@3K cents; stock, per head.
81 G0@S2 90
HoRsEs-Extra fine, per span, o a $500: fancy
harness, Sl5OdS20 livery harness, S759Sl1j;
farm, S50Gsl25; ponies SljGS90.
MULEs-Extra heavy Sl2jaS20O medium SjOg
75 small $500 si5.
A farm can be stocked with sheep cheaper
han with any other animals. Sheep will
come nearer TO utilizing everything which
grows on the farm. Less labor will be re-
quired for getting feed and stock together
The returns will come in sooner and oftener
than with any farm stock except hogs
Less money is required for shelter and fenc-
ing, and less labor is required in herding
when outside ,pasturage is accessible ana
preferred. And, finally, a handsome in
come on the investment can be had without
the sale of the animals themselves.
Coleman's Rural World predicts that
"the wear 1882 will be a lively one with
stock-breeders. The enthusiasm among
farmers for improved stock is on the in
crease, and among stock-breeders there is
desire TO obtain the most fashion,
abe at almost any cost. There. Will
be more fine stock change hands in
1882 than in any preceding year, and We. do
not know but we might say any preceding
Two years. And prices viii improve. money
is in fair supply. Stockholders in good
standing, if they have not got all the money
they need, will have no difficulty in procur-
ing what they want. So the breeders Of
fine cattle horses, sheep, swine and poultry
have a bright year before them-the bright
est for ten years past.
IL Is claimed for the Duroc or red Jersey
swine that they possess large amount of
vitality; that they are very prolific; that
they endure extreme heat and cold with
little injury or discomforture; that they eat
grass aud clover better than most kinds OF
hogs; that they stand transportation well,
and that the proportion Of lean meat IN
their bodies is large.