The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-12
LIVE STOCK .

| A BETTER grade of cattle is now being offered
at the stock ards in this city but the receipts
| are barely enough to supply the demand for To-
cal trade and home consumption, There are a
| few being shipped, but good, heavy, fat cattle
| are decidedly scarce. Veal calves come in slow
| ~ while mutton sheep are plentiful Spring
lambs are IN demand, with few offerings. Hogs
| are abOve the requirements and are slow sale
Horses mules and ponies sell readily. Prices
Tor AL kinds OF stock are very firm at quota.
tons.
| TO-DAY QUOTATIONS..
BEEF CATrLe-Corn-ied, none
| BARREN cOws-faL 2AG2a cents
| SHIPPING-Sa34 cents.
| STCCK-Per head S96slS.
| Mich COws-Mith calves S25GS4O.
| SPRISGERS-Per head, slOd $50
| HoGs-C0m-tcd, 5G5>i cents; timber fat Stsi;
stock. 2h@3.
saEEr-Mutton, S@S& cents; stock, per head
| Sl.GOGS2 90
HoRsEs-Extra fine per span, s5Ol@s5Oe fancy
harness, sl50gt2oO; livery harness. S75@Sl75;
farm, S5O@sl25; ponies, sl5@sSO
,MuLEs1EXtra heavy Sl25Gs2OG medium $500
| $50 small Ai0d5u
Mr. John Y FArwel the dry goods merchant
of Chicago, is said To own more polled AnyaS
cattle than any man In the country. lie has Il
fine herd on his farm, near MonteMma Iowa,
and thirty more in quarantine al Quebec.
| The Tyler West Virginia. Independent SAYS
| that number Of the farmers of that county
who have been engaged in sheep raising for the
past two or three years. are beginning 10 realize
handsomely from the business They have now
| their farms stocked and many of them this
spring shipped fat sheep To market for mutton,
after stripping the wool off ltadds: There is
less hard labor nud more money in the sheep
business than in anything else our farmers can
engage in
The Chicago Drovers Journal says: "As
might be expected, the horse trade for the past
week mas been about ut s'andsull. on holiday
account If for no other reason, shippers In the
country have not been disposed to send horses
20 market ana the receipts have been extremely
light not enough stock here to make IL market,
even If there was good demand. A sale il
made OF horse or two now and then at prices
that are lair enough, and 1t is now the cxpecta.
ton that We shall within II short time see bet.
ter feeling i'll this trade than has prevailed since
the close Of the spring season
breed SOW should be n good mixer. How
ever good in other respects, II deficient IN this
she should hardly be retained as II breeder. An
abundance of milk for the first eight or ten
weeks OF their existence is the best preparation
young pigs can have to 1T them tor profitable
growth IN after lite, 1t is not always possible to
decide with certainty whether or not young
sow will prove TO be Il good mixer, but AS with
cows SO with pigs, we may learn from observa-
ton and trial 10 know in some degree, judging
| from their general appearance what to expect
Much will depend upon the dam and grand
dam in this regard. Milking qualities in swine
are as surely transmits sabe by progeny as IN cat
| tie
| Tho Reno Gazette SAYS W. b. TOdhunter
|
| sent TO market this season 5000 beef.Catte
| These figures prove Mr.. Todhuutcr to he the
| largest stock raiser in the country. There are
| others who send more cattle In the market
but they buy instead of raising them. lie
has over 10000 headof stock cattle, and over
100000 acres ofpatented land He got patents
last month for So 900 acres OF swamp land in one
bunch. Ne has about 600 bulls and 800 saddle.
horses. lie employs 30 men, and puts up 800
tons OF hay To guard against hard winters lie
keeps 10 work horses, and raises enough grain
10 feed all his saddle and work stock. Besides
his cattle he has 700 or 500 stock horses lacks
and 80 stations His stock is divided among
four ranches-one known as the white house
ranch, lying just Inside the Oregon line where
6OOo head are kept one in long valley, in ths
northwest corner OF Nevada lying alongside OF
surprise, supports 1900 head; the pyramid
ranch, lying ~ the northeast corner of The lake,
has 800 head and lot Of horses; the abbott
ranch, Mt Stems mountain, feeds about SOC,
and Harvey valley 5000 more. The home ranch
| b - miles from nCighbOr.