The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-29
LIVE STOCK

Over 10000 head of sheep were shipped
from Los Angeles to Texas, one day last
week.
The Chicago Times of Saturday says the
highest price of the season was paid for q
fancy lot of cattle yesterday, a New YORK
buyer taking fifteen head, averaging ! ,O66
pounds, at $3.50 per hundred weight. They
we're consigned to A. ID. Pickering q 20.
At the cattle convention lately held IN
Topeka, Kansas, President Stone, in his
address, said that he had the names of over
1900 persons in Kansas who were owners
of short-norns, and he believed there were
more than TO- 600 thoroughbred cattle in the
state the value of which at 500 head
would be 100000. As TO the
merits of the different breeds he said that
the court offnal judgment was ~ the table
of the consumer, and that animal or family
was best which would bring the farmer the
largest returns for the food fed. The
butchers block is a good test OF the value
TO the butcher; but the animal which the
butcher prefers as being the most profta-
BILE TO him may not be and often is not
profitable to the farmer. Pedigree Is
good test Of value just so far as the quality
Of each ancestor Is known and no
further. CATTLE are reared and grazed
and fed for the sole purpose Of concern
trating into portable shape the products OF
the soil, and the COW Of the future will be OF
that tribe or breed OF family that brings TO
the farmer the largest return for his hogs
and cattle and grain. There is no senti-
ment about matter like this. lt Is cold
blooded question Of dollars and cents, and
whenever IL Is demonstrated by reliable
experiments that any one tribe does bring q
larger return for a given quantity OF iced
and labor expended, then 10 that all others
must give way, no matter whose idols are
broken.
Regular or professional sheep-buyers
saws the Chicago Times, are generally an
odd set, and are AS widely different from
scattlemenn as the professional horse
trader They frequently get wildly excited
in bidding for stock, and In their desire 10
Guido each other viii pay prices Tar above
what would be regarded, EVEN by the seller,
A. is market value. Al other Tines, when
A very large consignment ls on sale, or
more than is wanted by any one buyer,
they will let one Of their number make The
purchase, which In the absence Of comPeti-
ton viii be at a low price, and then
s'whack up By dividing the flock and pay
ing Tor il pro rata. Yesterday q very suDe-
nor lot Of ffty-fve sheep, averaging Ia lbs,
va brought In bv Mr.. II. =. Hills, Of Ogle
county. and CONSUMED 10 Harley, Green a
Co. They were coveted By several buyers,
and in the scramble that folio we'd the owner
accepted q bid Of &c. per h., which vas
probably 4 TO &c. above what be bad dared
10 anticipate when be started with them Tor
markei-
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