The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-28

In the Varied Circle of the Contem-
pOrary Press.


pOrary Press.
Statistics corroborated at the late
Wool Growers convention at San An
tonic show that the Texas clip this
year will bring the hockmasters the
sum of 81, 500, 900.
At the late Indiana Shorthorn Breed
ers' convention Governor Porter stated
that the money from the sale of q
couple of ~Shorthorns, given him when
a boy, started him in college.
Northern and Western Nebraska is
crowded with cattle and cattle growers
are moving their herds westward. B.
F. Carpenter is moving about A 800 cat
tie from his old ranch above Fort Mo
brara, Nebraska, to the Rosebud, in the
Yellowstone region.
Breeders have noticed that a re-
markable development Of the tendency
to lay IN fat is accompanied by a deli
cacy of constitution, a diminished Sc
erection of milk and loss of fecundity.
Very fat animals are not likely to be
good breeders; in fact, the excessive
production of fat is incompatible with
a high development of the productive
powers.
The condition of the sheep market is
not very encouraging to holders, but at
the same time they are a little better
than one year ago. Lately there have
been some good, heavy lots sent in, but
the general quality of the offerings of
late has been exceedingly poor. Eastern
markets are dull and heavy, but it is
noticeable that few good muttons are
going forward.
Major w. II. II. Llewellyn, agent Of
the Mescalero Indian agency, has made
arrangements whereby the reds on his
agency car ship their cattle, hides, etc. 1,
to Albuquerque for sale. Llewellyn is
making an excellent agent, and is pop
ular because he does his duty both by
the redskins and the stockmeu of Lin
coin county by keeping the Indians
from stealing stock.
Heavy beef cattle are wanted when
there is a strong export demand and in
cool weather, but at this time of the
year there is invariably a relatively
stronger demand for light than heavy
carcases. Just now this difference APP
pears more marked than usual owing
to the fact that American and British
prices current for heavy beeves have
little or no margin for our exporters.
That leaves the heavy cattle largely
dependent on the home consumptiye
demand, which calls Tor lighter arrivals
than usual for several reasons.
The enormous proportions to which
the business of slop feeding cattle at
distilleries has grown within the past
few years is something remarkable.
The present season has been the busiest
ever known in that branch of stock
feeding, and the cattle that have been
turned out of the distilleries have been
of better quality than in any previous
year. The great bulk have been so
good indeed that little or no difference
has been made between slop fed and
corn cattle. Among those engaged in
attending to the fattening of distillery
cattle there are some experienced men
who take a pride in doing well what
ever they do, and there is now some
talk of having a specified time and
place for the display of distillery fed
cattle. Something of the kind would
surely he a benefit to the trade, and as
the volume of that business is reaching
such large proportions, we hope to see
ut no distant day something of this
kind put through.