The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-01
LIVE STOCK

THE demand for all kinds of butchoring
stock continues active. Cattle are scarce on
the market and the same anxious enquiry
Tor mutton, sheep and fat hogs still exists.
Prices are firm at our quotations.
Abilene is receiving large tlocks of sheep
from New Mexico
The indianapolis stock.yards had receipts
last year, of | ,l29,S9i hogs, 144 IA cattle,
and DE, 500 sheep
Reports received at the department of ag-
riculturc, in Springfield, are to the effect
that the live stock throughout the state
was never known to be in better condition
than at present.
There are seventeen different railroads
running into Chicago. Every one has con-
meeting tracks, so that stock-cars can reach
the Union stock-yards.
A Glasgow, Scotland, special says
Among the cargo ofthe steamer Manitoban,
for Boston, were eighty-three Clydesdale
stations.
Goats are the best land cleaners known.
One thousand head, put on land so brushy
and shrubby that it will not feed stock ut
all, will, in three years time, by close
herding, clean out 500 acres that not a
vestige of underground will be left; there
VIII be thick mating of grass and sure
proht OF from Is to 70 per cent. will be
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as good browser as the Mexican goat.
DALLAS LIVE STOCK MARKET.
BEEF CATTLE-Corn-ied. 3G3S cents
BARN COws--Fat, 2ha pa cents.
SToCK-Per head, sl5as2
Mich Cows-With calves Sl5@SiO
SpRINGERs-Per head, SlOaS3O
HoGs-Corn-fed, 6C96a cents; timber fat, 4@5;
stock. 3@iI
snEEp-Mutton, 34@3k cents; stock, per head.
Sl,G0lrS2 90
| uopsps EYtro G,o ,,or ,,,o., Q N .e-on. -
harness sl5OtgS20O livery harness, s75asl7j;
farm, s5O@sl2j; ponies, r15dSSO.
MULEs-Extra heavy Sl25aS200; medium 5000
70: small $500 So
A farm can be stocked with sheep cheaper
than with any other animals. Sheep will
come nearer to utilizing everything which
grows on the farm. Less labor viii be re-
CURED for getting feed and stock together
| The returns will come in sooner and oftener
than with any farm stock except hogs
Less money is required for shelter and fenc.
ing, and less labor is required in herdinp
when outside .pasturage is accessible and
preferred. And, finally, handsome in
come on the investment can be had without
the sale OF the animals themselves
Coleman's Rural World predicts that
the year 1882 will be o lively one with
stock-breeders. The enthusiasm amonp
farmers for improved stock is on the in.
crease. and among stock breeders there is
a, desire to obtain the most fashion.
able at almost any cost. There will
be more fine stock change hands in
1857 than in any preceding year, and we do
not know but We might say any preceding
two ears. And prices will improve. Money
Is IN fair supply. Stock breeders in good
standing. if they have not got all the money
they need, will have no difficulty in procur-
ing what they want. SO the breeders of
line cattle, horses, sheep, swine and poultry
have bright year before them-the bright
est for ten years past"
IT is claimed for the Duroc or red Jersey
swine that they possess a large amount OF
vitality; that they are very prolific; that
they endure extreme heat and cold with
little injury or discomforture; that they eat
grass and clover better than most kinds OF
hogs; that they stand transportation well,
and that the proportion of lean meat in
their bodies is large.