The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-21

G. w. Morgan, who passed through
here this week with a a of Hereford
bulls for Swan brether's ranch, II
Wyoming, sayathey are taking all o.
that breed they a get.
Even cows sometimes go on a bender
when there is somebody TO set 'em up
Recently a herd of 100 mild-eyed kline
at a farm near Berlin became unman,
ageable. by drinking from'a trough where
by mistake the faucet of a barrel Of corr
brandy instead Of the water-spout had
been turned.
In Iowa the demand for S~hort-horn
bulls is much greater than the supply.
Fairly bred young bulls readily bring
500, while males good enough to place
at the head of herds are quoatable at
S4OOCq6OO. The Indications point
strongly to a profitable season for fine
stock breeders.
Several months since it was rumored
that the great Kennedy ranch in Texas
had been sold, and the rumor was after
wards denied. A recent dispatch from
Corpus Christi says: THE sale has been
consumated of Kennedy's ranch, com
prising 100000 acres, together with all
the cattle, horses and buildings thereon,
to Messrs. Underwood, Clark g. Co., of
Kansas City. The sum paid for the
property vas 1853, 475.4 40. The ranch
was Immediately resold to the Texas
Land and Cattle company of Dundee,
Scotland.
a letter from ]. W. Drury of Doane's
Store, Texas, under date of Jan. %,
states that the estimated loss of cattle
in that section during the present win
ter amounts to only about q per cent,
mainly among old COWS, which is fully
three-fourths less than the loss amount
ed to at the corresponding time last
year; and the cattle are in far better
average condition. He looks for no
further losses, and states that the ship
mSpts of beef from that locality will be
one-iifth less than last year. The
range is generally good and there is no
disease among the herds except a little
Spanish itch along the Canadian river
in the Pan Handle. His preference of
breeds for that country is the Durham.
Range cattle are one-fourth higher
than at the corresponding time last
year, with more buyers.
Pittsburgh Stockman: To read the
discussions in the English papers con-
corning the admission of cattle from
America, n u~nacquainted with the
facts would suppose it is a regular CEN
ter of live stock disease. But what are
the facts? If the infected areas in this
country could be continuously located
they would not cover a single state of
average size. Dur people, as a rule, are
perfectly unfamiliar with contagious
cattle diseases; from 80, 900 to 40, 900
people will read this number of the
Stockman, ard if we could poll the en-
tire number, we venture the assertion
that not 500 of them could say they
have ever seen a case of pleuro-pneu-
monia. There is less disease among
the cattle of the United States than in
any other country on the globe produc-
ing an equal number. From 10, 200 to
1000 quarters Of American beef are
now sold weekly in England, the aver
age weight of the quarters being about
200 pounds. Strange as it may seem,
this beef retails lower in the British
markets than it can be bought by
American consumers An English pa
per thus explains this anomaly: 1.-THE
secret lies in the difference of cutting.
In England a side of beef is cat into
pieces of from ten to twenty pounds
weight, and neither bone or fat is re-
moved. E%nglishmen, when they buy
meat, do not ask for a piece Of the
round or s~irloin, as Americans do, but
for SO many pounds of meat, and are
Indifferent from what part of the ami
nal it comes.