The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-10

the cattle business within the past hal
dozen years, and it may be that changes
equally great, though 1t seems hardly pos
sible, will occur within the next six years to
come. Certain it is that there has never
been period more favorable to reforms and
revolutions in the business of breeding,
feeding and handling stock than the pres
ent. The very fact that changes so great
and many have been effected within few
years, and have tended TO so greatly multi
ply the advantages of the stock raser-ths
very fact prepares the people for other
changes for the better. Farmers and stock.
raisers, like all other classes of people, are
reader now than ever before To at least
consider carefully, if not ut once accept,
new ideas and new ways. In years past the
majority refused to consider any proposed
new departure, but now there Is rather a
tendency to 30 to the other extreme.
Not very long ago it was generally CON
sidered the thing TO feed animals to a very
old age, and the feeder who took to market
lhe largest cattle generally carried away
the honors. Now, the question il not how
large can an animal be made. regardless of
tlme and feed expended in accomplishing
II, but rather ~ how short an age and with
how little feed Cen the animal be put In the
best bcei condition. Veteran feeders, WHOSE
monstrous, heavy steers have for years
made them famous among feeders, have
concluded that AN increase in profits OF %
per cent. can be realized on animals ma
tured under three years old, as compared
with Older beeyes. This is great change.
ana has been worked in q comparatively
short time.
Changes most notable have been made in
The quality OF the breeding stock taking
tne Iprinr ha 4,
years. Wcll-bred animals now lake The
places that were occupied by mongrcls OF
the lowest types, but the work Of improve
hient In this direction has hardly begun.
In shipping stock alive from market to
market and from country to distributing
centers there has been little or no progress,
though the inventive genius ofpalaCe stock
car projectors has been busy trying to solve
The problem how TO ship live stOck with
The least discomfort and injury to stock and
with the greatest profit to The shipper The
greatest change, however, that is being
worked IN tran sportation is the matter of
dressed'beei shiDments in reirigerator-cars.
This business has grown to enormous pro.
portions, and must some day almost en-
,,reiy snpercede the old way Of shipping on
the hoot.
In the range.cattle business there has.
perhaps, been greater changes in the busi.
ness OF "orn-ieeding cattle in the agricul-
tural regions, improvements have been
even more marked ON the plnins than on
the farms. The rapidity with which the
resources OF the rapge-Gattle business have
been developed Is simply wonderful.
The fact is, the majority of men Interested
IN range stock are much more shrewd and
enterprlsing than the average, aud are
more Than ordinarily apt in seeing and
adopting methods of Improvement.
fhonominal fortunes haye resulted from
small beginnings, but one thing must be
borne IN mind In this connection; that is
the TACT that the fabulous fortunes of
which we are learning every day are not to
DO taken as the gauges of the profits in the
range cattle business, for they have been
amassed by the sudden and somewhat ex
IRENE increase in values during the past
Two or three years. Another thing to be
remembered is the fact thut IL costs SO per
cent, more to handle ranch now than it
uld before the present boom started. There
IL, perhaps, no business safer than ranch
ing, nut the business is undergoing great
changes. IL 10 being more closely figured
than formerly, and, while there Is still
millions Ia II. there il not likely to ocour
a repetition Of the wild"golden iand-slides''
that nave occurred in the past.
TO-DAY oUorArIoEs.
bHkr Observation-Disclosures STOCK, grass fed, 81
corn fed, s.
BARREN oows--Fat 8A6o3k cents,
hnIrrING-i6pth oeuts
STccK-Per hoad, sl2@e20
Mich oows-With calves, s2bGesiO.
stock. S69SA. -
g., 006Ds2 80. w. ""''
HonsEs-.kAtrs nne, per span. sSOO@S6or fancy
haineSs, elbO@t200; livery harness, S16Rel76.
farm. s5O@Sl25: ponies, Sl66SS0.
MulRs.Extra heavy 3l25ps20O; medium $500
100 small GS0@bO 'V~