The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-23

places and officers occupying their sta
lions. At $50 a. m, President Miller
called the convention to order, when the
body at once proceeded to the dispatch
of business.
COMMUNICATIONS.
The president laid before the conven-
ton, the following communications
SAN AUGUSTINE, February 2, 1882
DEAR SIR-We will contract 10 deliver
1000 head, average each Texas steer, cat
tie at Marshall, Longview or Henderson
during April next at
81 so for one-year Odds.
$1,000 for two-year Odds.
Sl3 80 for thIee-year Odds.
S16.0C for fOur-Year olds and over.
$I4.00 Tor dry cows under eight years
old
Please let this be known to members
of the convention we refer to Cover
nor Roberts for our standing
Respectfully.
L. A. & S. W. Blount.
No action was taken on the cOmmuni-
cation.
The following communication was
read and referred TO the committee on
improvement of stock
GALVESTON, TEXAS, Feb. IA, 1882
W. P. Gaines, ESQ, Austin, Texas:
DEAR SIR-You are hereby author
lied by myself, in behalf of the New
York Farmers club, to represent us at
the meeting of the stOckmen, 10 assem-
BILE this day in your city. l regret that
it will not be in my power to attend, and
you will see by enclosed letter that sick
ness has prevented my friend, DR..
Heath, president of our club, from at
tending. Also please represent me, as
a member of the Galveston Live Stock
and Farmers club committee. Colonel
Lang being well acquainted with DR..
Heath, let him comment On DR.. Heath's
reputation as leading agriculturist and
stock breeder of New York state, after
you have read his DIR. Heath's) enclosed
letter. Yours truly,
J. NJ. JONES.
! My DEAR FRIEND, J. NJ. JONES'
| am not able to do much mental labor,
/ but can not permit the opportunity to
pass to say few emphatic words about
our able commissioner of agriculture,
the Honorable George B. Loring.
1t would be difficult indeed,
| to secure the services in that most i'm
portant department, of a gentleman
of larger experience, broader
views, and possessing a warmer interest,
and feeling more p ofOund sense of his
entire duty and responsibility TO the
great industries of agriculture.
! Educated to medicine an expert
in science and art the co-laborer with
| A gaZziZ and the best and ablest men of
| New England, DR.. LOring has become
one of the best known agriculturists of
| America.
Being a practical farmer and breeder,
and having devoted much time and study
to the contagious diseases of our domes-
/ tic animals and having successfully freed
| New England of one of the most danger
Gus and destructive contagious diseases
of cattle, pteuRO pneumonia, DR.. Lorings
ability and vast experience commendS
him heartily to those who cultivate
whatsoever branch of agriculture.
For myself, 1 feel the deepest
interest in stock raising in every
section OF the country. l can
but think that the infusion of better
blood into our flocks and herds will
prove much more profitable to breeders.
Every practical breeder knows that the
My wise plan is to breed for a special
purpose. If for beef, the pure bred
males of the Angus, shOrthOrn, or Here
ford, should be used; for fine wool, the
pure bred Merino rams; for mutton, the
shropshire Downs; for butter, the Jer
sey bull; for milk, for towns, the HOl
stein bull; for cheese, the Ayrshire; fol
light work oxen, the Devon bull. 1t Is
never d, sirable to use graded or mixed
breed males for any purpose.
Thus l have spoken as teacher, tC
gentlemen of infinitely greater eXpe
rience, for which beg pardon but now
as student, | ask you a question Of
great importance to sheep raisers. Viii
the castraiion of dogs prevent their de
struction of sheep? Do bitches ever joir
in sheep killing F.? What breed of dog.
do greatest havoc among sheep?
Hoping that the conference of breeders
will prove of great advantage to Texas
and TO the whole country, and with my
best wishes, | am yours truly,
A. s. HEATH,
945, Lexington Avenue, New York.
Mr.. Lewis, of Gillespie, laid befor
the convention the following letter, anC
moved its reference to a special com
mittee of five:
SOciete FOnclere ana AgrlcOle ues Etats Unls,
Principal Office, Paris, France,
Hotel BrunwIck, Austin, Tex. March p, 1881.
To Col. A. W Spaight, Commissioner Of De
partment of Insurance, Statistics and HIstor
of the State of Texas, Austin:
Sir-Taking very great interest in al
that concerns the prosperity of the Stat
of Texas, L take the liberty of calm,
your special attention to the debates an,
parliamentary documents of the Frencl
Senate of the Sd and 10Th of last Febru
airy, which l have the honor to place be
fore you.
At the meeting of the Senate held oil
the 10Th of February, the French Minis
ter of Agriculture and Com cree, basin!
his arguments upon the report of tn,
English Parliamentary Commission
which visited the United States and tn,
State of Texas during the year 1880, ant
with the view of saeifying the Legitimate
fears of French agriculture, used thu
following language:
"Your attention has been called to Tex
as cattle and to the very. low price a
which they are raised, and to the posi-
bility of their invading our markets.
have proved to you that but few head
of American cattle have been imported
into France. l can now give you the as
surance that probably no Texas cattl,
will ever find their way to our country
for this very good reason : that the cattl
of that State are affected with q gray,
epiZootic and endemic disease, agains
which we must very carefully guard on
country.
"The report of the English commission
ers sent to the United States by Parlia
ment thus describes that disease:
1.-The Texas cattle fever (tenian fever
seems TO be very mysterious disease.
is certain that cattle imported into Texa
are invariably subject to it, and die. Al
eminent veterinary surgeon has recog
niZed that in the State of Texas this dis
ease really exists in latent state, evel
in cattle OF the most healthy appearance
During certain seasons OF the ear, whel
Texas herds are driven northward, tn,
cattle which happen to cross their trai
are struck with that disease and die b.
thousands. As one may suppose, such
dangerous disease has provoked stringen
regulations on the part of the neighbor
ing States, but the enforcement of thes,
regulations in a half-savage country of
fers great difficulties, and the violation o
said regulations has occasioned consider
able disasters
"Another paragraph of the Engllsl
commissioners gives us quite funny &C
count of their personal appreciation o
the famed Texas cattle. read from tn,
report: Texas chickens are, exception
ally, of bad species, and if it can h,
said that Texas cattle are all legs anC
horns, Texas fowl can thus be described
all feet and wings. ,"
NJ. Tirard. the French Minister, ther
entering upon more general topic, dis
eusses the fertility of your soil, and givei
the lie TO the report of Mr.. Barral upOI
the agricultural and mineral resources O.
the State of Texas, which had been mos
favorably commented upon by the French
Senator, nj. Power Ouertier