The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-24

cess has generally been ndmittedi ana mans
strongly advocate the practice.
The largest fefrigeratlnR building ~ ibt
world Ia said 10 be that Of the quincy Mar
ket Cold Storage company, OF boston, W
stands lGOxsO feet aud IL 10 feet high. The
building cost 100000, and will be used for
storing dressed beef and mutton, rei1gera-
| ting cars from Chicago unloading ~ lts
The LARGEST single sale ofmules ever made
| in the United States recently took place ~
Columbia, Tennessee. The purchaser was
| w. b, Leonard, who paid $3.50 head Tor
1866 animals, making an aggregate OF vs.
G75, They are for use upon sugar planta-
tons, and will be taken to Louisiana IN
An exchange says: The eastern states are
making more and more beeves as the years
roll on. and lust now the supplies being
Turned off by eastern farmers are seriously
interfering with the calculations OF western
feeders, 1t is said by mar oil experience
that eastern farmers can better afford TO
feed 6Oc corn and $18 hay to cattle thah
western feeders can afford to pay 2oc lor
their corn.
assuming such large productions that it
bids fair TO become one OF the leading IN
dustries of the agriculturist. The numbers
of sheen shipped to Europe during the past
wear were 1905, worth about $500, GOO, and
TO the United States 1888 600, worth in round
figures 100000, or altogether trade OF
about 81 400, 900 per annum.
From livestock census, taken on the
10Th of January last, il appears that the
total number of horses Ia Prussia was =
i03 $50, as against 2,271 $3.50 in the year 1873;
OF mules 572, as against 932; of asses 6,3l3,
as against 1854 OF oxen S,735,566, as against
& Gas SD: of sheep 113,716,732, as against
10 G66, 79i; of pigs 5,S0l ,7S4, as against a.
295, 1926, and Of goats 1,672,37o, as against
|, ASH 6l.
A Liverpool letter says: The drop in the
price of cattle in this country has materl-
aIly affected ocean freights on the same
from American ports. Most of the Cana
dian cattle will cost 60 to sos per head, but
then that advance is offset by the advan-
tapes on the side of the Canadians, when,
under the peculiar rulings OF the land
owner class in parliament, are allowed 10
be distributed over the c. untry, not com
pelling the Canadians to slaughter at the
port of debarkation.
THE sCAB LAW.
We publish in this weeks issue commu-.
nication from a prominent sheepman OF
Tom Green county, and will take the liber-
ty of adding few words OF our own on the
snbiect The scab is the cause OF serious
loss to the sheepraiser. 1t Injuries the sheep.
It iniures the wool. 1t is very troublesome
and expensive to cure. The legislature mas
passed a law, that its most violent oppo.rr
nents concede will crush out the disease II
rigidIy enforced. Admit that better law
might have been enacted, say that the law
as It stands has objections, one fact remains
unouestioned, that this will destroy the
scab. and that is all any law on the subject
could do. 1t is more than probable that
this law has more practical ADVANTAGES ana
less objections than any similar scheme
that has been presented to the LEGISLATURE,
| The sheepmen of Tom Green county drafted
the bill, which, with some slight moditca-
tiops became law. They sent an agent to
| Austin, who represented to the legislature
then in session, that the sheepraising inter,
est of this section was seriously in need OF
legislative protection. The protection they
asked for was granted, and now they are
bound by every principle OF honor, eX-
pressed or implied, to see that IL Is ehiorceu;
One of the most fertile causes OF the spread
of the disease, is the passage OF scaboy
aocks from one range to another. ltseems
,lnpeighborly to refuse passage to or turn
| back the flock of a man we know, put
against a seeming want OF courtesy, one
should balance the fact that while man
may risk his own property, he has no rlgnt
to imperil that of his neighbors. Piaced IN
such position, no honest man Will hesi-
tate. Rigid enforcement of the law may
cause temporary inconvenience to a few,
but every man owes it to his state, his
neighbors and himself, to use every means
in his power to destroy the most dangerous
enemy the sheep-raising interest OF Iexas
has to encounter Green Times.
| TODAY QUOTATIONS.
Bxly OArrLR-Butchers STOCK, grass fed. 4c
corn fed, sc
BARREN cows--Fat s cenh
| BHIPPINa-5A cents.
sTccK-Per head, sl5@e20.
MICH Cows-With calves, 8s5@s60.
Hoes-Corn.fed, 4xc gross; timber fat
stock, 3@Sk. ..a
O. OO@Ss. 90. .o,o>s.oo. ..,.,
harness, s150@s20G livery harness, VoSSl7o
farm, S50@sl25; ponies, $25@S50 ..oa
100 sm all a30Qbc.