Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-17
Sheep and Cattle Notes.

It is thought by sheep-men that not less than S35 900 will be sent north from Texas this year for fine wooded rams.
 American breeders are now regular buyers at the English fairs and sh ws, and herd owners have come C expect their appearance. They are the most liberal buyers that visit the United Kingdom.
 A shepherd in South Australia de- clares the Canada thistle furnishes more ana bette- food for sheep during a protracted drouth than any other plaut that grows The flower buds are eaten by lambs in preference to any kind grass.
 \ Missourian has for Ebout nine years been breeding wholly from hornless rams and say heucefOIth he will use no other. They do not fight much, there areno horns in the wsy at shearing, they are never "hy-blovn around the horns. and he claims they grow larger and keep easier.
 The heaviest steer yet shown at the Chicago Fat stock show was in 1878, weighing 3.l55. The big steer at the show of 1879 snly weighed 2,S40, he was at the head ID lSSJ at 3,l2i pounds, and also last year though he had struck to 2gOO pounds and was evidently suffering from some cnnsumming disease. He was as ugly as he was big and by DO means attractive from any standp int.
 As rule a matured SOW will rear stronger, better pigs and more of them than will an unmatured one. In case a SOW shall have proved herself undesir able, there IS no question that she should be slaughtered. but If her past performance has been satisfactory, the fact that sue is two years old Is not a sufficient reason for sending her to the butcher. Some of the best brood sows We ave known have been ID active ser vice until they were half dozen years old-in some cases even longer.
 Uyalde county. Texas, had, January lst, according tn the assessors, lOS,s53 sheep, valued at S252,426. Dlmmit county had l27,9l0, $2Oi,457, but the as- sessor thinks with the lamb crop which was large, and the tiOcks driven in the county must now have 100000 head. Austin county, which Is mainly agricul- tural had but 3,9O7. worth SJ,I16, and the largest number owned by one per son vas 400 Matagorda, which is a coast county, had bat 9.3O2 sheep, while it's cattle numbered G9,295 head wortl S74,O0O
 The maggnts of the OK gad fly cause the small Jumps found m the backs o' cattle. The hy Is not far from the size of the common honey bee and might bs mistaken for 1t. The eggs are deposited in late summer-thefem fly selecting il place on the animal that 1t cam, [ reach with It's tongue. The cattle seen to know that something eyll is to b' done as the buzzing of these Ead flies will throw a whole herd into state of terror. Oxen when hitched to wagon or blow frequently will behave very badly on this account. The egg soon hatche. and the maCgot or larva eats its va' into the skin and causes irritation that induces a formation of pus and this be coroes the food of the pest. The wei fed grub IS white and plump These mapgots grow all winter. In the mid summer following they leave the spot or the back of the animal and drop to the ground where they burrOw and assume fine pupa state. after four weeks the per feet gad fiv makes its appearance and soon begins it's work of reproducing a | new generation of warbles.