Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
STOCK sQUIBs.
Points and Items About Kansas Stock.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
executed an order to the Sheriff of Shaw
nee county, authorizing him to kill
horse belonging to D. Wyatt, which he
did at once.
Chetopa AdU1ne: Mr. A J. Lott sold
some wool to the DeJarnette Bros, a.
! few days ago. The wool from 50 rams
averaged II lbs. each, and that taken
| from 50yearlings OfmiXed stock averaged
10 lbs. each.
Peabody Gazette: We saw at the depot
a comely Berkshire SOW weighing 325
pounds, on her way to Washington
county, Kansas-One of the northern tier
of counties. She was from the ElmWood
heard and cost the buyer $50.
Sterling Gazette: E. D. Case sheared
his sheep last week. He had flock of
one hundred and fifty head. The wool
sheared from them weighed 1,700 lbs.
! They are the fine Merino sheep. One
ram three years old sheared % lbs. Six
one year old rams averaged Is lbs. per
| head.
Dodge City C0Ubou: Embryo cowboys
who started in last year on high prices,
with a corral and shepherd dog, a large
white hat with rattlesnake band, are of
| fering to sell the remainder or remnant
of their herds, claiming that the cattle
| business is not the thing they took it
to be.
Dodge City CoaObog There have been
few punches changing hands this Sum-
mer. Yearling steers selling for $21,
twos, $50. S. W. Missouri COWS and
calves, $50. Native yearling heifers $40,
twOs S26 to $50. Prices are not so strong
as last season, and in order to realize
parties are forced to concede at least 50
from last years figures.
Peabody Gazette: A large, thorough
bred Short-horn COW of the Arabella
family, raised near Peabody, has been
publicly pitted against any full-blood
Jersey in the State of Kansas as a mixer
and butter maker. The owner is waiting
for some Jersey breeder to take up the
glove. Whoever does will have to trot
out COW that will make twenty pounds
of butter per week.
Eldorado Times: "Duke of Richland'
is the name of a thoroughbred Short
horn calf, brought this week from Illinois
by Mr.. S. E. Horsey, of Richland. The
calf is perfect preventative of his fam
ily-a cubin body, small neck, small
muzze, (he can drink out of quart
measured, age seventeen months, weight
$40 pounds. Mr.. Horsey is justly proud
of his acquisition, and the blood of this
calf will make an improvement upon the
already well bred stock of Richland and
vicinity.
w. G. McCandless, Chase county,
writes the Kansas Farmer: Our shearing
was so satisfactory l subjon a little ac-
count of it. Our Cotswolds (45) averaged
158 lbs, running from II lbs. up to 233.
Capt. Smell, 3 year old clipped 233 lbs,
a IA months clip Chess Wilson, years.
212 lbs, Il months clip; Young Chess. 2
years 49, lbs, II months clip; Young
Smell, year Is lbs, IA months clip !;
Lady Kepple, years, 49, lbs, y
months clip; Snowflake years Is lbs,
y months clip; Young Queen, 1 year 2
months, Is lbs, IA months clip. These
sheep were shorn June 18th, 1884, and,
except the two three-year-old rams were
shorn between the 18th and 18th of June
last year.
Peabody Gazette: The best horse in the
State (as a roadster), Joe Young, is
owned in Marion county. The best
Short-horn bull in the State, imported
Grand Duke of Darlington, and the most
valuable Short-hOfn cow in the State,
imported Aconite, are owned in Marion
county. The best Berkshire, Shriven-
ham II, is owned in Marion county, and
the best Poland China in the State, Ere
linghuysen, is owned in Marion county.
And the best poultry yard in Kansas is
in Marion county, and owned by the
President of the Marion County Agri-
cultural Society. Now, if any man in the
State of Kansas has hardihood enough to
deny the above statement, let him waltz
up and give his name, if he wants to get
into trouble.