The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-16
TILE DALLAS WEEKLY HERALD THURSDAY 1882

lssi about 900 homc.bred trotilng horses,
This represents Ut least n quarter NJ mil
lion dollars brought into the state"
A new disease has appeared among the
horses In portions uf Arkansas. IL hrst
causes lameness In the hips or shoulder and
then goes 10 all the feet, accompanied with
an affection of the lungs.
The most profitable way TO raise beef
cattle Is TO Keep them constantly In
thrifty and improving condition. II is. rot
neCt ssary to keep very young stock rolling
in fat hut there should always
be an abundance OF nutritious food
TO help nature in its develop
ment. 10 allow stock to run down in flesh
and become ill.conditioned simply because
IL is not designed Tor market for some time,
Is the height Of folly.
Advices. from Ottawa, Ontario, state that no
tice is given of the application to parliament
by Sir Hugh Allan, Andrew Allan, Tn )mas
ID. Milburn and Charles Simpson, of Mon
treal, and +. S, Stmson, of Compton, Que
bee, tor incorporation by letters patent un-
der the name of Northwest Cattle company,
limited, for the purpose OF breeding, raising,
buying and selling horses, cattle and sheep,
and other stock, and the carrying on in all
its branches of stock-raising at or in the
Bond river country, with II head office in
| the city of Montreal. The capital stock of
the company will be $1500O0.
Henrietta Shield Stevens & Ikard have
sold their three herds of cattle to Adding
ton Bros, of Gainesville, for $l5 round
calves, cows, one, two ana three-year-olds
counted. The sale amounts to SD,OOO.
| The Drovers Journal says large corpora
tions with fabulous capital have been and
are now being organized in Texas and the
northwest for the purpose of handling cat
tie on huge scale. The business appears
to be not only lucrative one, but one also
of comparatively small risks. At least it is
rare thing indeed to hearof failure among
ranchmen, while tales of immense wealth
| made within q comparatively short time,
where the capital stock of enterprise and
good iudgment-the two great essentials in
| stock-growing as in other things-is not
| limited, are Of almost daily recitation.
| The almost uniform advance in price of
stock cattle, which amounts to about 50
per head, does not seem to lessen, but
| rather to increase the activity III tlie.market
| for well located stocks and in contracts for
| beeves.
For at least century and half the
leading breeds of live stock have been un.,
dergoing steady improvement. Full
| illustrations to this effect might
readily be given. recent writer
in examining q part OF TINS
matter saws that lin the year ITO the
weight of fat cattle in the London market
averaged only SO pounds at the average age
of five years. In 1915 this was increased to
4S2 pounds. In 1880 the weight was $50
pounds, nearly double that OF 17f0. 1t is
probable that the average weight at one
year less age, say four years old, is at the
prese moment fully three times that of
ITO, and the beef-owing to the superior
quality ofthe cattle and the better methods
OF fattening-fully fifty per cent. more
nourishing ana economical to the con-
sumer."
Taking the winter through it has been an
unusually favorable one for stock of all
kinds in this section, and reports from the
ranges of the far west are to the same Ell
feet. Eastern Oregon butchers have no
difficulty in finding cattle fit for the market
on any of the hills. The grass has contin-
ued so green that stock has not only man
aged to live without extra feed, but has
really fattened The cattle men of South
Park, Colorado, are in good spirits. The
season is now so far advanced that the
weather cannot become so cold or remain
so long enough to cause loss to owners.
There seems to be but little doubt, at the
present writing, but what we shall see
CRASHED cattle in all the leading markets
ofthe country, in good condition for slaugh-
tering, during the spring season before us
month or six weeks earlier than in former
years.