Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-03
STOCK soU1Bs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
Wolves are troublesome to sheep in
Lincoln county.
The Hartford Call saws there is no sion
of the cattle plague in that vicinity.
E: Bennett & Son, of Topeka, have a
car load OF Norman stations in Wichita
NJ. R. England, of Milan, has purchased
an Arabella Shorthorn calf of G. S. Eich-
holtz for 500.
W: S. Tucker, of Leon, has three-year-
old Angus bull that gained 260 pounds in
sixty days with ordinary treatment.
At the sale of Henry & Warner at Abb
lene, Cooper & Slough paid 1895, and
Newton q Sotham paid $3.50, each for
Hereford bull
Vermillion Nea0s Robert Armstrong
has about one hundred head Of the finest
fed steers on his farm near town that we
have seen for many day.
Proctor & Nevis, of Barber county, sold
their thoroughbred stallion Bengal to
some New Orleans men for $2.500-an
advance of more than fifty per cent over
cost.
Ellsworth Reporter: One day last week
Mr.. A. Phillips exhibited a bull calf in
front of our Office that was beauty. He
was Calved June 18th, 1888, ana weighs
$50 pounds.
Minneapolis Messenger. A hog raiser in
this county four. years ago started with
two soWs. During that time he has sold
$500 worth of hogs, and his stock of hogs
left is worth $3.50, all from the two sows.
Ell Dorado Republican i: J. & w. Baker
received 700 head of cattle for their
rancho last week and will receive 900
this week. They have splendid rancho
and are prepared to handle their cattle
in good shape.
Peabody Graphic: Mahlon Riggs, of
Fairplay, lost seven head of cattle and
one valuable horse and several hogs from
the effects of hydrophobia. He now
thinks the danger past, but declares that
he will never own another cur.
Salina Herald: D. Eagles sold to Bart
| lett q Jenkins this week, six hogs a year
old that aggregated twenty-seven hun,
dred and eighty pounds-average -four
hundred and sixty-three and one-third
How is that for Gypsum Creek
Ellis Headlight: Engineer Thompson
had fourteen head of very fine graded
ShOrthOrn COWS in the yards last week
He bought them of Hon. J. B. McAfee
Of Prospect farm, Topeka. Mr.. M. is
breeder of fine cattle and horses.
Joseph Furham, Wichita, now owns
Kansas Boy, the first pure bred Norman
raised in the State, He was sired by
Quimper 400, owned by Henry Avery o
Wakefield. Kansas Boy will do much t.
improve the horses of Sedgwick county.
; A. B. Matthews, of Kansas City, with
drew his cattle from public sale on &C
count of the low prices he was receiving
not, however, until Col. Muir had solo
thirty Galloway bulls at an average 0
$434.5O. DR.. Callahan, Of Topeka, wa
one of the lucky purchasers.
Medicine Lodge Cres8et: There is bu
little stock changing hands at presen
, which would seem to be an indication
, that the owners are we'll satisfied with
the way in which their stock have win
tered and propose to hold during tn
Summer.
/ Medicine Lodge CreSSet: Mr.. Kirkpat
rick, known all over this range as Kirk,
foreman of the Greever & Houghtol
: ranges in the Indian Territory, says tina
2 the cattle may be dying east OF them, bu
that none have died from the effects Q
the Winter so far on their range; that tn
COWS are fat and strong and the prospect
: for an extra large calf crop unusuall
, good.