Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10
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Points and Items About Kansas stock

Points and Items About Kansas Stock
Peabody Gazette All kinds of stock in
this vicinity are doing finely, having.
passed through the Winter in good con-
dition.
Randolph Echo: Thomas Starcher sold
on last Thursday thirty-four head of cat
tie averaging in weight 1900 pounds.
Price six cents per 10.
Manhattan Republic. Our thoroughbred
men are getting rich at the rate of from
$1OO to $3.50 a day, this being harvest
time with the Shorthorns, Holsteins and
other families
Cedarville Review: Mr.. D. E. Smith,
who has large drove of sheep in the
northwest part of this county, informs us
that his sheep have wintered exceeding
ly well, and that the wool is of good
length, weight and quality.
Burden Enterprise: J. w. Cairns, living
six miles northwest of this city, is feed
ing 300 head of cattle at a cost of $50
week. He is not at all uneasy about the
cattle plague. One of his herd took foot
rot, but knowing the remedy he effected
a cure at once.
Ellis Headlight: In a herd of two or
three hundred head of steers belonging
to M. @. Burbank, of this place, we notice
a few head Of half-breed Polled-Angus
which look thrifty and strong, while the
balance of the herd show the effects of
the severe Winter.
Abilene Gazette: Seventeen car loads
of stock were shipped from Abilene on
last Saturday evening, and required a
special train. This is the largest ship
ment made from this point since the days
of the Texas cattle trade. Abilene and
Dickinson county are booming.
Sidney Cow6Oy: Cranston Bros, of the
Buffalo ranch, are fencing 100 acres of
the same for horse pasture. They now
have in charge fifty head of horses and
over 100 head of cattle. During the past
Winter they have lost six calves, two OF
which died with the blackleg, the others
cause unknown.
Oberlin Eye; Our advices are to the
effect that the foot and mouth dis
ease has appeared in the herd of Warren
Jennings, on the Prairie Dog, and he
has lost two head. 1t is also reported
in the herd of ]. l.. Worthington. Our
information is reliable. We see no rea-
son for any intense alarm.
Norton Courier: DIR. Little, a promi
nent sheep man of LenOra, called at oul
ONCE one day last week. lie has given
the subject of sheep raising in this coun.
ty intelligent and careful study, and il
convinced that it can be made profitable
business. His loss has been very light
during the past Winter, and his opinion
is that much of the loss from fOcks IL
this county has been occasioned by wan
!: of experience in those handling them.
' Oberlin Neoos: Mr.. J. c. Wilson, one
OF 0F Ill
5 township, was in town Monday anC
stated that there were no new cases o.
foot and mouth disease reported in this
|. neighborhood, and that there had beer
no deaths resulting from it since the
( visit of the Commissioners last week
= Also that the locality had been visited
: by veterinarian from Colorado, who
asserted that the malady affecting the
: cattle there was not the foot and month
disease.
Usage City Free Press: Mr.. W. P. Her
5 ring, the popular live stock agent of tn
A, T. & S. F. railroad, also one of tn
: most prominent stockmen in the State
has recently returned from an extendet
: trip through France, England and Scot
t land, where he has been visiting some G
the finest herds of those countries an
r. making selections to suit himrelf regard
s less of cost. Mr.. Herring's recent i'm
:. pOrtatiOn, combining purity of blood an
J. individual merit, is one of the mos
s valuable ever imported to this country
}. These cattle are now in quarantine q
! Baltimore and will be in Kansas the frs
a of May.