The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-28
LIVE STOCK .

There are 800 600 head of cattle pastuIing
in Montana.
Messrs. Silverstein & Co., Of Dallas, Texas,
left Vernon, Louisiana, Sunday morning
for Dallas, with between 700 and 500 head OF
stock cattle, purchased at Vernon and vi
! cinity, paying about Sll 600 cash. They
propose returning for more as soon as these
are disposed OF.
The Drovers' Journal says: One evil by
no means justiiies another, but IL is never
theless TACT that some OF the drovers who
complain loudly OF the abuse OF the dockago
system by the box-packers aud Others re-
sort TO various inhuman practices, such AS
sailing and keeping animals away from
water Tor days, in order to make then eat
ami drink heartily when ready TO weigh To
the buyer. A stranger could hardly believe
that so many handlers of stock would resort
To so many cheap, mean and cruel practices
to gain few dollars unfairly, as they do.
Still, humanity is humanity, the world
over, and there are men and men in the
stock business the same as in any other.
The Kansas City Price Current says :
The polled Angus and Galloway cattle
may now be considered as fairy introduced
III this country. And so marked are thelr
merits that they seem TO he growing ia
lavor with the increase in numbers and the
better knowledge OF their characteristics.
The success OF the sale last week was no
uncertain announcement that western cat
te-men We're well pleased with the mules,
and willing and anxious TO give them full
trial, They are splendid cattle, aud pur-
chascrs all speak In their praise. While
prices last week We're high, and NAV seem
by some to be very strong, yet it should be
remembered that they We're imported ca,
Tie and the picks OF the best herds In Scot
land. They cost handsome prices at home,
and much expense was incurred in visiting
Europe and IN their importation. Ranch
men and 'eedeTs who h ave made 50 much
money the past few years, should not
stand back on recount OF a little nd
vance in price in procuring these excellent
cattle Tor the purpose OF breeding up their
range stock or forming neuclus for
thoroughbred herds. They are u superior
beef animal, and for the past century have
stood among the first in the United King
dom. Iouatt, the great English writer on
I'VE Stock, says OF the polled Angus: AT
tenllon OF enterprislng agrculturists ap.
pears 10 have been directed to them sixty
years ago some of the first qualities ut
tracing the attention of breeders being the
peculiar quietness ana docility of the dod-
DIES las that is what they were anoiently
called), the easinesS with which they were
managed, and natural fitness for feeding
ni' i"biNA'N WIN NHlCll llty pun bH lltSU.
Tho same authority writes of
the Galloways; "For more than $50
years the surplus cattle of Galloway
had been sent into England. The polled
beasts were always favortes with the Eng
lish farmers; they lattened as kindly ms the
others, they attained larger size, their
llesh lost none OF its ineness of grain, aud
they exhibited no wilduess and dangerous
lerocity. They are straight and broad in
the back, and nearly level from the
head to the rump, are round in the ribs,
ana also between the shoulders and the
ribs, and the ribs and the loins, and broad
in the loin, without any large projecting
hook bones. In roundness of barrel and
luilness of ribs they will compare with any
breed, and also in the proportion which the
lolns bear to the hook bones, or prolubel-
ances OF the ribs.
TODAY QUOTATIONS..
BsYF OATrLE-Butchors STOCK, grass fed, ~
corn fed, 6@bls.
BARRRN oows-Fat sass. cents.
SHlrPIHG-5,a@5A cents.
STcCR--Pcr head Sl5Gg20
MICH Cows-With calves, s35@f60.
Hoas-Corn-fcd DC. gross; timber fat 4,
stock, SCG3s.
sHrEr-Mutton i3is cents; stock per head;
o.. 0OGDSs 90
HoRsKs--ExtrR nne per span, s30O@S5oG fancy
harness. el5O@s2oO; livery harness, 876GSi76;
farm, s5Oeel25; ponies, s25tbs50
MuiEs-Extra heavy sl25aDs2OO; medium $500
100 small 830m6D