The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-29
LIVE STOCK,


TODAY QUOTATIONS.
BERF CArrLR-Rutchers stock, go.
BARREN Cows-fAL 24d3A cents.
sHIPPING-3k@i cents.
STcCK-Per head, s9G&lS
Mich Cows-With calves s25@Si0.
Hoas-oorn-fed, &C. gross; timber fst, shSlhi
stock 2H6lS.
sHEEP-MuttOn, sS@s,s cents; stock, per head
Sl.60@s2, %.
HoRsEs-Extra One, per span, s50Oas5OG fancy
harness, sl50Gs20G livery harness, s75@sl7b;
farm, s50GSl25; ponies, slheasS0.
MULEs-Extra heavy sl25Gs20G medium $500
co small S3065O.
The last Chicago Times says. Eastern advices
were unfavOrable, and If there was any improve
meut In the market for common aud medium
quality II was not percepublc. In fact business
under this head was again slow aud unsadStae-
tory, at barely steady rates, and II was only by
persistent effort that holders Of such could dis
pose of all of their c0nSignments. Sales of con-
mon shipping and killing lots were generally at
st@I 20, with medium 10 fair ileshy quotablo at
| 81 35Mi 90 Good to choice shipping steers sold
TO the extent of the supply at s5@5. G5, and for
Texas through steers of desirable quality
So g01l4 was about the market over 300 head in
the aggregate, being taken by local buyers at
that range. They averaged from S57 TO 9l9
| pounds.
there were shipped from the Lexington stock
| yards $50 horses aud mules.
| The live stock IN Texas is estimated at 1 1850 e
600 head Ofcattle, 3 100000 head Of sheep, lO0I,-
sheep the latter industry being late ore
| The last bulletin OF the Indiana bureau of
| statistics shows considerable less live stock in
that state than was reported last year. The
drought and short crops OF 1881 eie claimed as
the cause
The agricultural department at Washington
estimates the shortage of the hog cop in the
! great hog raising states as follows: "ln Ken
lucky the decrease from last year. as returned
by one correspondent is % per cent % in Ohio;
| % in Indiana "A in Illinois, ~ In Iowa: 30 in
Missouri. The decrease Is but per cent in
| Kansas ana in Nebraska 1t also says there
is Il small decline in the south and middle states.
A Chicago paper says We have every indication
| for two months past, eta short hog supply, as
the cXreme high prices have lUicd to bring 10
market anything beyond meagrc supply
Great eifOr are being made now, IN the hog
raising d,tricts, 10 increase the supply us fast as
possible.
We clip the following from the Dairy and
| Farm Journal, published at West Liberty, Iowa:
| There is question of growing importance to
the people of the upper Mississippi valley, rs to
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
ears ndustriously gathering up aud shipping
all the hest grade OF yearng heifers, and even
| h5ifer calves, to their ranges, until the supply
of such stock must be getting scarce. Doubtless
there may be heifer calves and yearlngs, OF
some quality. in plenty ut some places, but
where farmers have been aroused to n sense OF
| their best interests in the matter of breeding
and raising stock and have been investing in
short.horns and lIerefOrds, and rai.ing grades
from those superior breeds. the visituions by
the stockmen of the plains have been most fire.
quent and persistent until few high grades Of
either sex remain on their native sod, and
especially are the Refers thinned ont
In the matter OF milk and butter there are
breeds superior to those above named, but Il
very small proportion of these breeds or their
grades, have been introduced into the territory
in question, and, at any raie, milk and butter
are not the only ends sought amongst the breed
ers, for beef Is just staple and as profitable Il
production for the general farmer Ms 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 present
high price for promisingg grade heller, and
whenever the time comes that our fl elders shall
begin to ship feeding steers from the plains, in.
stead of raising them upon their own pastures
they may begin TO realize tho wisdom of the
warning. AT the present rate OF shipment OF
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