The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-16
STOCK NOTES.

II. f. and John Stafford branded
six thousand calves OH their rancho
in Wharton county.
Pennsylvania had last year S21, 79O
cows, worth $1S,625, 900, and $4,000
oxen and other cattle, valued at
$14, &c., 900.
There was no loss among Uvalde
flocks in consequence of the ."cold
snap" The He$peridn says sheep
never looked better in Uvalde, and
that fully two-thirds of the ewes are
fat enough for mutton.
An English mechanic has invented
horse shoe composed of three thick
nesses of cOwhide, compressed into
steel mould and subjected to a
chemical preparation, which will last
longer than the common shoe.weighs
only one-fourLh as much, does not
split the hoof, requires no calks and
is very elastic.
An ex-state senator of Colorado,
while recently in New York, rode
up to Central Park to see the ODE
lisk. He Immediately understood
why the government brought it
here. He said that it showed that
the Egyptians had recorded on it
the fact they had the same kind of
cattle marks that are employed by
the Mexicans.
1t appears to be an easy matter
for the fine wool breeder to under
stand the many disadvantages of the
coarse woods and cross-breeds, and
the breeder of these latter can sat-
isfy himself that the fine wooded
animals are entirely unfit tor NUT
ton. In short it is easy to see the
faults in others, but not so easy to
correct our own.
1t is noticeable fact that when
prices of cattle, hogs or sheep is in
the ascendant, the receipts diminish,
but as soon as break i'll values oc-
ours, then the stock centers are i'm
mediately flooded with stock. A
happy medium or commercial equi-
librium, is the most desired, but
that line il appears is never fol-
lowed.
Three hundred and fifty years
ago, FitZherbert, the veteran farmer
and Judge, wrote: "a husbande can
nut well thryve by his corn without
he have other cattell, nor by his cat
tell without corne. And bycause
that shepe in myne opynyon is the
mooste profitablest cattell that any
man can have, therefore l pourpose
to speake fyrst Of shepe."
The short-horn association of
Iowa, which was recently organ
lied, passed a set of resolutions
thanking Colonel J. ID. Gillett, of
Logan county, Illinois, for the man
ner in which he has served the short
horn inter ests. He has worked
faithfully for his favorite breed, and
as a result stands at the head of
American meat producers, and
richly merits the high compliment
of the association.
Owing to the recent floods. which
washed away the Nashville, Tennes-
see, race course, the meeting of the
Nashville Blooded Horse associa-
ton, which was to have taken place
this spring, has been declared of
and all entries withdrawn. A COM
mittee has been appointed to sell
the present course and negotiate for
the purchase of new one. The
sixty or seventy horses that have
been in training at Nashville will go
to New Orleans and Greenville.
The Little Rock Authorities have a
fine course, and it may be that they
will take the dates allotted to Nash
vile
In his annual message to the legis-
lature of Massachusetts, Governor
Long states that sheep raising IN
that state "might be made very
profitable, if it were not for the
dogs" He therefore recommends
that laws be passed to restrain all
dogs from running abroad off their
owners farms, and for the destruc-
ton of the worthless dogs which
destroy the valuable sheep. This is
right. That one class of people
should be protected in their rights
of one kind of property which is
destructive of another and more
valuable property, is against the
spirit of all good government.