The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02
LIVE STOCK.

| THE receipts of cattle are still far below
the demand, but dealers say they have as
surances that as soon as the roads dry up Q
little large numbers of fat, smooth cattle will
be offered in the market. 1t will be several
weeks before any great quantity of mutton
sheep will be driven in, although they are
generally in good condition. The winter
| has been favorable one for sheep, and as
soon as shearing is over the market will
probably be oveIstocked. Hogs are coming
in very slowly. as it is an impossibility to
drive any great distance until the roads inn
prove. Prices for all kinds of stock are firm
and high.
| DALLAS LIVE STOCK MARKET.
BEEF CATTLE-Corn-fed, $685. cents
| BARN cows--Fat, 2hM2A cents.
| STGCK-Per head S15@S2O.
| Mich Cows-With calves, S25@s40.
| SPRINGERs-Per head S109S30.
HoGs-Corn-fed, 6@6h cents; timber fat, 4@5;
| stock, 3@4h.
| 81. 60GS2. 90
HoRsEs-Extra fine, per span, s3o0@s50G fancy
farm S5O@Sl25 ponies S15@s9O. -.
MULEs-Extra heavy Sl25@s2oO; medium 5000
75,sm III eS0dS45.
Sixty four shOrt-horn bulls, from seven
10 fourteen months old, bought at an aver
age Of sol, have been selected in Kentucky
| to be shipped 30 Texas the LIST of May.
~ u. Gillett, of Logan county, shipped
l2O head OF tiue cattle to England and sold
them for S24 400. This, he says, is about
So 600 more than he could have got for
The cattle had he sold them in this
country.
Mr.. Hanlan, of Mercury county, Ten
nessee, sold his first.premlum steer of $50
pounds for 25 cents per pound bringing
$t72.50. His second premium steer sold for
$203.50.
1t appears to be an easy matter tor the
fine wool breeder to understand the many
disadvantages of the coarse woods and cross
breeds, and the breeder of these latter can
satisfy himself that the fine wooded animals
are entirely unfit for mutton. In short it
is easy to see the faults in others, but not
so easy to correct our own.
A seventeen months old hog at Hinsdale,
New Hampshire, is reported as weighing
6SS pounds, or nearly l23 pounds for each
day of its age.
Receipts of horses and mules at st. Louis
for the month of January, were 5,SG6 head.
For the same month last year 1872 head;
gain l ,19i head. Chicago is the next horse
and mule market Of importance and the
total receipts for the year 1881 were IL 900
head. st. Louis is the horse and mule
centre of the world.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man suggests that it is important for cows,
at this season of the year. that frequent
change of food be made. If one description
of food is constantly used the COWS tire of
it, eat less gradually, and show reduction
of produce. The novelty of change seems
to whet the whole appetite and TO stimulate
the vitality of the whole system, and, of
course to promote the secretions.
II is said that no animal is so extensively
diffused over the globe or increases so rap
idly as the hog. Marshal Vauban calcu-
lated that the produce of a single SOW in
ten years, assuming six pigs at a litter,
would increase 10 6,434, 100, or as many as
any of the chief European states could sup
port. II this calculation were carried on TO
the twelfth generation, we should fill all
Europe with supply. and by the sixteenth
cover the entire globe.
The Tyler Courier says beef cattle in
Smith county are played out for the present
at least. The people Of this county have
disposed of nearly all the surplus cattle TO
western buyers, and in our opinion they
have not added 20 their wealth. One adj
vantage however, the range will be better
for the remaining cattle.
We are informed by the Gainesville Hes
perian that Bud Wilson. of that city, has
against assoc for the corresponding
period of last season.