The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-10
STOCK SouIBs.
Points and Items About sxan... s,o.,

Points and Items About kansas Stock.
/ .. w. Kirby. of Dickinson county, is
grazing 100 head of cattle
Three hundred head of Michigan hog
have arrived At Burlingame 10 be win
! The Western Land and Cattle Com.
pa3y have 10000 head of cattle Ia Chase
county.
J. P. Powell, of Leon, recently fattenea
q COW to 1885 pounds IN two monrhs'
feeding.
Samuel Brownsun is feeding nipe4y-
three head of steers near TORONTO, Wood
son county.
w. c. Rathburn, OF McPheTs IN county.
has recently received car load of me
imported horses.
Horses as well as cattle eat loco
weed and several have been killed by SD
doing recently, in Kansas.
Jesse Evans, of Lonston, has received
car load OF cattle. valued al si8Us0,
direct from Scotland.
Wilson county Citizen: j r. MooFe.
living east Of Fredonia, is feeciag
eighty steers for the market.
The Agricultural College Farm re.
Gently shipped 8 pair OF Berkshire gifts
to Cofeyville and jersey bull calf TO
Wabaunsee.
Usage City Free Press: Henry ia
coby of Reading says it pays to raise
last week that clipped the beam" AT $50
pounds.
Junction City Union: Thursday Of
this week John Z. Wright shipped 10
AADhaisau . Thoroughbred Holsltin bull
and i've Jersey calves. John has royal
herd 70 draw from.
Troy Chief: John ". Eston of Wolf
River tpUnsalp, last week sold Q hog
twsoty months old that weighed $50
pcunda. The lot OF hogs sold at the same
lime averaged As pounds.
Council Grove Cosmos: ISasc W.
Phillips. OF Moss Springs, Davis county.
recently sold % Wall Is Bradshaw, 81
PeFkerville, load OF Poland China hogs
eight months old, averaging SS97 20 !
pounds each. 500
Usage City Free Press: At the last
meeting of the Usage County Stock ]
GroWers' Association, We aoiice that
the horse question was discussed and
. move is about 10 be made in the direc-
ton of improving the stock of horses as
we'll ss cattle and hogs.
lie Roy Reporter: Mr.. Roswell Nor.
ton the other day killed pig little
over MAE months old which weighed |
394 pounds. Il was cross between the
Poland China and Berkshire. Mr Nor
ton has several more of the same litier. |
which are now much heavier than the
one killed.
Newton Republican: Complsints have
reached as that disease, generally sup
posed to be cholera, has broken out |
among the hogs IN this county. II Is
believed the disease WAS brought here |
by the shipment of Missouri hogs iRto
the county by car lots, many of which
have already died.
Sumner County Press: Thursday OF
last week, John GilchrisJ, Of Belle
Plane township, sold one hundred
cows TO Jim Holiday Tor 81, 200. They
wire thoroughbred and high grade short
horDs a0d aD extraordinarily fHe lot of
cows. Mr.. Holiday had d large stock
farm before this purchase.
Leon Indicator: Thomas j. Lindsay,
OF Hickory creek, has marketed during
the year 1888, 30 head OF cattle snd 81
head of hogs from bis farm. The cattle
brousht him nearly SIT per head, or the
sum OF 45.7S5 So. and the hoSs sold foI
e7G4.12; total of &G,5WSo NJ. L. says
he has $3 COO worth Of stock left on the
place.
Durlingame Chronicle; Hiram W ard
tells Us that he has sold In the neighbor.
hood of $500 worth of thoroughbred
shorthorns this summer from his herd,
which he breeds. He Gays raising fine
stock pays good deal better than rails
ing inferior animsls, and the demand is
constantly increasing for this class of
stock.
T,vp
loss of swine has occurred in this vicln-
ity recently. At least 800 head have
been lost from cholera, or some disease
resembling It. Grant Bros. bought some
ten or twelve hundred head IN Missouri,
and sold them 10 the farmers in this sec
ton and the losses occurred among them.
No losses are reported among hogs
raised in this part of the state.
Col. ProutY, editor OF the Kansas Cow
boy closes a long article about the stock
interests of the North Fork OF the Wal.
nut, as follows: "The country between
Sidney and Cotton wood, q distance OF
over twenty miles, is broken and we'll
supplied with living streams. II lie nat
ural stock country. With the exception
of the valley of the Walnut, between
Sidney and Rush county, there are. tset.
ter and more improvements on the
ranches ON the north and Middle forks
of the Walnut than any we have seea
elsewhere In tho aaockman's counfy. In
several places new houses are being
erected, and some of the ranehmen are
surrounding and supplying themselves
net only WITH comforts. but the iuxuFies
als6 ef ltfs-- Only one thing is wanted
to make the surroundings Of these
ranches complete, and that fs shade
trees without these the ncnes of the
ranehneo will always appear ioaely !.
BY iFFigaeEpg from wells with windmill
p1mps, trees and shFUbbery cAa BE-
grown with ease. or course these will
follow with the further DEVELOPMENT of
the country and the additional acquire
nnen4 II aRaalth