The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-28
LIVE STOCK
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BEEF CATTLIs-COn-tVd none
BARREN CowsFat 2 N.5 ceutS
BHIPPING-8AG3is cents.
SrCCK--Per head, S0GglS.
Mich Cows--With calves s25Qs $40
SPRINGERs--rcr head. SlOMS3O.
Roos-Coru-ted, hc5S cents timber fat, S63l.
stock 2hG)3
SHEEp--Mutton 340SE cents; stock per head
HoksEs-Extrt tue, per span s30Oas50G fancy
harness, sl5O@S2OO livery harness, s75@Sl7S;
farm, s6O@Sl2b ponies, Sl5GSS0.
MuLEsnExtra heavy Sl25@s2OG medium $500
slcO small al0GbC.
The Dodge City, Kansas, Times SAYS: THE
prairlcs have lost their greenness, The grass is
OF sickly dead color, the hot winds having
done their work; but the pasture Is good for
stock, and all animals are fatteuingn
Tho first sale of Scotch polled.Angus cattle
ever held in this country occurred at Dexter
park last Wednesday and the prices realized
would seem to indicate the great favor in which
this noble breed of cattle Is held by some OF our
breeders, six bulls sold at range OF 3l6 to 500
each, and sixteen females were sold ut from
Sta To 1885. The bulls averaged over 100 and
the females over 70l each, They were from the
stock farm OF Geary Brothers. OF London, Can.
ada
The Pittsburgh stockmau says: MANY pco.
pie wonder how some of the stOCkmeu OF the
west have managed 10 become wealthy land.
owners within very few years, In many cases
simple trick of Uncle Sam. Tho shrcwd stock.
man goes out, preempts and locates upon the
quantity of land which the laws thus place with.
IN the reach Oft the irontcrSman hut when he
mas gone solar he can do no more personally, The
next stop is TO have his mon prc.empt in sections
all around him, aud by q private arrangement
with them, and paying them u slight stipulated
| consideration, ho buys them out when their
ownership has become n fixed fact To gCt soy.
etM thousand acres together In this way is ntt
! the difficult thing IL would SEEM
correspondent OF the st Louis Globe Dem.
| ocrat writes; AFTER good deal OF crosse cues
uoning and figuring arrived at some conclu.
sionS Ms TO the profits of cattle raising RSa bust
ness. met one man, for instance, who had lust
returned from Chicago, where he had sold l. coo
| mead ot cattle at IN average of $40. They were
ahlils over three years old, and had been on his
| ranch two year. He bought them In lSNO for IS
u head Counting interest Carc.takng, loss by
death and all other items OF expense, they stood
| MIN when put on the cars Sll,N each. Add To
/ this an average of 81 each for transportation
/ from ogallala Nebraska 10 Chicago-slOO per
ear the actual cost and an average OF twenty To
/ the car--and the animals on the market have
cost him SlG1O each, leaving u net profit of sou
| 300 on the herd This was simply onc-0nd no,
q large one-of many transactions made In the
course " the year by the same StoCkman In
deed, twas In the nature Of an outside iransaC.
Sion, because the rule Is TO raise the cattle frnm
birth instead of buying them ut q year old. Thl.
gentleman has already sold 1880 head OF cattle
thlS year, ami now has on his rauch 1880 head
otwhieh he expects to send about 5000 head Ia
market before the close Of the season. Il is very
SAFE to say that man starting with $500 head
OF cattle can, after the second year keep up Ms
herd aud sell $4,000 worth OF cattle ovcry wear
thN Is To- say, he can net that amount after pay,
INK every dollar OF expenses. hut 1900 head ol
cattle are considered n small ranch. The aver
age is more than twice that number OF possi
BILE and actual losses to the business, there an,
really none to speak OF Two per cent will cove
all the losses by death for 4 good year winio,
and summer, and, strange TO say, the losses arr
greater In summer than IN winter. Ina yer,
bad year when disease Is prevalent, the losses
never exceed D per recent"