The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-05
FAMOUS FOR CATTLE.
The Ranges of Montana Exactly Suited
for Cattle Growing.


Texas and the great southwest are
fast losing their former importance as "A
source OF cattle supply says cores
pondent of the Philadelphia Times, full
of enthusiasm for Montana. The eli
mate of the southwest and other condi-
tons are not favorable for cattle grow
ing. 1t is too warm, and then, again,
the ground traycrsed by the Spanish
breed of cattle is not clean Kansas is
so situated as TO become a vast cattle
growing country, but the land is so well
adaped for farming that the stockmen
are forced to give up their ranges to the
settler or pay an enormous price for it.
Colorado is first class field for live
stock growing. Their Texas cattle lose
all their Objectionable characteristics,
and at the end of the first year are rs
healthy and fat AS native stock. But
the greatest objection offered by cattle
men to Colorado or Laramie plains is
that the animals are coarsc-boned, un-
calmly beasts. This is undoubtedly
caused by the fact that they have been
heretofore cross between Texas COW
and native bull. The herds of Color.
ado and Wyoming are gradually i'm
proving, owing to the importation II
well bred bulls, and as the climate is eX-
actly suited for the stock, it is only
matter of time when these regions will
gain as enviable a reputation as Mon
tana has secured
The vast area Of land in Montana,
which is exactly suited and could not
be utilized for any other purpose
other than for cattle growing, will
always attract and secure the large
cattle grower Then again its climate,
its native grasses insure success. The
presence Of hardy buffalo attest this
fact. The herds Of Montana have been
bred with great care from the start.
The cows were obtained from OREGON,
and the bulls from Illinois and Ken.
lucky. Replcnishing the blood of the
herd is constantly escorted to in cattle
as well as horses, In consequence, tho
animals will soon rival those bred in
Ohio and Illinois. The winters of Mon
tana are long and sometimes severe, but
the young stock are acclimatized and in
the spring come ont in good condition,
oft-times spending the entire winter out
side of the sight OF man.
This is not so, however, with the Tex
as cattle, Coming from warmer eli
mate and in many instances being hay
fed during the coolest weather, they
easily succumb to hunger and cold. An
instance recently came under my notice
where herd of five thousand head per-
ished in three months, They were hur-
riedly driven from Texas, arriving on
their Montana range late in the fall in
a poor condition. Now genuine Mon
tanian is "rustlcrN TO use parlance
of this section consequently, when the
snow and wind come they seek the Sc
clusion Of a sheltered ravirc, and in the
thick pine protect themselves from the
cold. A hay-stack is unknown, and up
on the side hills, always bare, they pick
upa sustcnance from the nutritious
grasses. OF late it has become the Gus
tom of ranchmen to cut hay from year
to year in readiness for a severe winter.
The nutrition and color Of grasses are
constantly retained, owing to their Pc
culiar variety and the absence OF rains.
The streaks of alkali furnished substi-
tute for salt, and, in short, If there is q
land better adapted for stock growing
have failed TO find it, The advent OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad TO this
point has been the means of opening
and developing an industry that renders
it possible for the cattlemen TO kill their
cattle at the nearest railroad station
and ship the meat in refrigerator cars to
eastern markets, The feed imparts q
delicious flavor to the meat and makes
Montana beef decidedly better than that
fattened by corn.