Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-07
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Stock Notss.

Stock Notes.
Denver, Colorado, is contemplating
holding national stock show in connec-
tiOn with the exposition Of 1854.
Now is the time to look after your
stockers and feeders, and see that they
go into winter in thriving condition.
Col. Judy, the auctioneer, is reported
to have sold, since March last, i 400 head
Of Shorthorn cattle al. average of s2l5
per head.
E. Dawson, one of the largest stock
men in Clay county, Texas, has assign
ed all Of his property. Assets, ,S425 900 !;
liabilities S9O7, 900. Cause not given.
The number of hogs packed in the
United States in the first two weeks of
November is estimated at 536, 600 head,
against 402, ,S9S head in the same time
last year.
1t is stated that dose Of from four
to sixquarts Of bread yeast, administer
ed from bottle, has proved eficacious
In saving the life of steer which had
gorgcd itself from meal box.
The Indiana Farmer speaks of it as
an unaccOuntable fact that public sales
af Shorthorn cattle In Indiana have
never been as successful as they are in
Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, and other
states, no more favored in respect to
conditions than Indiana.
France Is ahead Of Great Britain in
cattle and hogs, and behind i'm sheep,
the figures being as follows: France has
ll,75O,O0O cattle, 2 100000 swine and
. SOC, 600 sheep Great Britain has 1862
600 cattle, 2,5O0, 900 swine and 5000, 600
sheep.
New York Tribune: The grievances
of the st. Louis live stock dealers have
been voiced by one of them, who char
ges that the rates fixed by the Gould
Southwestern consolidation from points
where its lines are crossed by other
roads TO Chicago and Kansas City favor
those points, so that it Is only question
OF time, unless relief is granted, when
the live stock trade of this city will be
thing Of the past.
The inspector of the Texas Stock AS
sociation at Chicago cut out steer
from Colorado herd, out of which in
! cident will grow a lawsuit involving
an important question, which is this /:
Can a Texas stockman claim his cattle
II stolen and driven to Colorado? 1t
would appear that the inspector thinks
they can. The Colorado Stock Associa-
tion win not recognize Texas brands
IT. Worth Live Stock Journal.
There has been, and is still, strong
demand for heifers to be placed on
ranches on the plains In the west. Some
Of the successful cattle owners of Mon
tana have recently assured us that the
native" heifers, those bred in the Mid
die and Western states are not able to
endure the hardships of that Territory.
The cattle suffer extremely, and die un-
der hardships which the stock accus-
toned to the billiards of Montana sub
NIT to without much loss Of life.-Rural
World.
A new cattle company was organized
in Chicago and articles of incorporation
filed on the 18th inst, with a capital
stock of 81 ,0OO, 900, with w. w. & V. B.
Dickey, the well-known Young ranch
men, John Clay, Jr. and w. HI. Forrest,
representing Scotch syndicate, and
VIM. III. Swift, of Chicago, as directors
The Dickey boys were elected on the
9TH to the position of President and
Vice President, and they will also be
general managers of the company's
property which comprises a fenced ranch
in the Indian Territory with 10000 cat.
tie and ranch of Is, 600 head in Monta.
na.-Kansas City Indicator.
A writer in the Rural New Yorker
figures it this way: I notice that some
far-west livestock journals are advising
the cutting out from tho herds of al
bulls that have been on the range three
years. should advise just the contra.
ry course, unless the bulls were unsatis
tory in their get. In . wild state among
gregarious animals, the strongest males
take the herd for time, sometimes fol
three generations. Then they give way
to younger and stronger animals. From
this has come the idea Of two in-crosse,
and one out-cross. Itcosts money ant
mortality to acclimate cattle in Texa.
and the Plains region, hence, hold t.
your bulls as long as they are doing vel
for your herd. ln-and-ln breeding new
er yet did harm in the raising of grade
even to the third generation, if tn,
males were vigorous, of strong consti
tuition and had the points to fix upoI
the stock. When stock becomes fin
enough, then indeed, careful study an,
discrimination are necessary. Thre
consecutive crosses of . Shorthorn or
Hereford will not hurt a Texas herd OF
indeed, a herd of any of the plains re