The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-30

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The last Chicago Times says; Eastern advlces
were unfayorablo and II there was any improve
m0nt In The market for common nnd medium
quality II was not percepublo. In fact, business
under this head was again slow aud unsa isiac-
tory at barely steady rates, and II was only by
persistent effort that holders OF such could DIS
bose of all OF their consignments. sales OF com.
mon Shipping and killing lots were generally az
eidl 70, with medium to fair feshy quotable ut
"a $500 90. Good to choice shipping steers sold
10 the extent of the supply at 5000 Co. ard ior
Texas through steers OF desirable quallty,
10 9004 was about the market. over 300 head, III
the aggregate. being taken by local buyers AZ
that range They averaged from So7 TO 9l9
pounds
there were shipped from the Lexington stock
yards 2.t60 horses aud mules.
| The live stock Ia Texas is estimated at 1850,
900 head of CATTLE sOO coo head of sheep, l,OOt-
sheep the latter industry being late one.
| The last bulletin of the Indiana bureau OF
statistics shows considerable less live stock In
that state than was reported last year. Inc
drought and short crops of 1881 Are claimed as
the cause,
estimates the shortage of the hog crop III the
great hog raising staIes as TO lows; IN Ken;
| lucky, the decrease from last year, as returned
by one correspondent is % per cent: 20 in Ohio;
% in Indiana; "a in Illinois; 20 in Iowa; 30 IN
Missouri. The decrease is but per cent. IN
| Kansas and In Nebraska" 1t also says there
is a small decline in the south and middle STATES.
| A Chicago paper says we have every lndicauon
| for two months past Of a short hog supply, as
| the exreme high prices have failed TO bring to
market anything beyond meagre supply.
| Great eifor are being made now, In the hog
raising districts to increase the supply as last us
possible ~,
Farm Journal, published at West Liberty, Iowa:
There is question of growing importance %
the people of the upper MISSISSIPPI valley, as "
where the supply of cows is to come from IN the
near future. Siockmen on the plains. having
realized the importance of improving the
quality of their stock. have been for several
J ears industriously gathering up and shipping
all the best grade of yearling heifers,, and even
h9ifer calves. to their ranges until the supply
of such stock must be getting scarce. Doubtless
there may be heifer calves and yearllngs, o.
some quality, in plenty at some places. bul
where farmers have been aroused to sense. OF
| their best interests in the matter of breeding
and raising stock, and have been investing III
short.hoIns and Herefords, and raising. grades
from those superior breeds, the visita'ions by
the stockmen of the plains have been most ire
quent and persistent, until few high grades o.
either sex remain on their native sod, and
especially are the heifers thinned out,
| In the matter OF milk and butter there are
breeds superior to those above named but a
very small proportion of these breeds or their
grades, have been introduced into the territory
In question: and. at any rate, milk and butter
are not the only ends sought amongst the breed
ers. for beef is Just as staple and as profitable
production for the general farmer as are the
| former.
We do not my the stockmen of the plains in
their prosperity in the least, but we would warn
the breeders of the great Mississippi valley that
they have interests and beyond that OF a present
high price for promising grade heifer, and
whenever the time comes that our feeders shall
begin to ship feeding steers from the plains, in
stead of raising them upon their own pastures,
they may begin to realize the wisdom OF ihe
the stock of young grades to the plains we opine
the day for the shipment of stock cattle or feed;
| ing steers from the plains to Iowa, Missouri and
Illinois is not far distant