The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-09
LIVE STOCK.

THEroads still prevent the driving of
cattle to the city, and to-day again the
markets are bare of good, fat stock. The
receipts for the last few days have been of
a mixed character, and yet they brought
full prices. Our farmers would probably do
well to bring their fat stock in while roads
are bad, for after the weather clears up
there will be an abundance of cattle on sale
] here. Mutton sheep seem to be out of the
question. There has been none offered for
/ over a month, and yet prices are higher
/ than ever before known here. No doubt
/ they are held back until after shearing time,
when the market will be flooded by them.
logs continue in demand, and the pens
,mpty. Now is good time to sell, before
the weather gets too warm for pork. Prices
arc as follows:
DALLAS LIVE STOCK MARKET.
BEEF CATTLE.Corn-fed. 3@3}l cents.
| BARN CoWs--Fat, 2%@24 cents.
! STcCK-Per head, Sl5dS2l
| Mich CowS-With calves, S25GSi0.
| SPRINGERs-Per head, Sl0@S30.
| HoGs-Corn-fed, 6@6h cents; timber fat 4@5
| stock 3G4H
sHEEp-NIutton, S14@Sk cents; stock per head
| 81. 60@S2 90
HoRsEs-Extra fine per span, $50 assoc: fancy
harness, Sl5O@S200; livery harness. S759 Sl75
| farm, S50@Sl2j; ponies, S15aS30.
MULEs-Extra heavy Sl25g $780, medium 5000
rs: small S30td S45.
Many of the more enterprising ranchmen
high-grade bulls, and thus secure them
selves against loss by accimation.
Sheep are being shipped from middle
Tennessee to Texas ranches.
A Fond du Lac butcher purchased, the
other day, hog that weighed alive $40
pounds.
The condition of cattle and sheep on the
great western plains is reported TO be ex-
cellent.
The South Carolina legislature has passed
q law req uiring all live stock to be kept in
closed. In other words, no-fence law.
-Four pigs, one less than nine months old,
were slaughtered January Sd, at Major
George S. Leland's Highland farm, Euclid,
Ohio, that weighed, when dressed, respec-
lively, 80, 2S6, 2S4 and 26S pounds-total,
l AIS pounds, being an increase of over one
pound per day for each pig.
An exchange says: "Slowly but surely
are the choice range locations being bought
up by the whales of the western cattle bust
ness, who are fencing the small fry away
from the best water supplies. Every week
or so some startlingly large sale is reported
to some of the many gigantic livestock cor
porations which are operating in the ranch
ing regions"
The number of cattle in New Mexico is
estimated at 100000 head, yielding for mar
ket about 10000 head, worth on the ground
from $40 to SO per head.
In 1851 tnere were lZ,@lZ,UOO mllcn COWS
in the United States, or BAG, 800 more than
there were in 1870. The increase in the ten
northwestern states in the last ten years
was G3.3 per cent.
A reporter for the New York Tribune re-
Gently visited several shippers of cattle
and beef in order to learn the cause of the
reduced expectation of live cattle and beef
during the past season. with the following
results
Francis II. Ralph said that the smaller
expectation of cattle was due simply to the
fact that there was no profit in the business,
AT this time last year" said he, cattle
could be bought at l0c a pound, dressed
weight, and could be sold in Liverpool
and Glasgow at 16c, which would pay
a profit OF about SIS head. Now we must
pay Is cents pound, making a bullock cost
about S2i more than last year. The En-
glish market has been supplied with an UNI
usual amount of native beef, for the reason
that short crops have compelled the English
farmers to sell off their cattle to q greater
extent than usual. That supply cannot last
however, and eventually prices must 60 up
on the other side. At present we are ey-
porting scarcely any cattle, while last year
one dealer shipped 10000, another 10000,
and third "a 600 head of cattle. One rea-
son for the higher price OF cattle in this
country is the short corn crop. Corn could
be bought in Canada for 20 cents last year,
but costs As cents this year. For this same
cause farmers are sending their cattle TO
market only half fattened, and the best cat
tie have already been marketed.