The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-02-28

CUB G9eT lle ranges. Plenty OF good
grass, water and appetites are taking the.
old sisters and families through in good
shape. The boys would not give one per
cent to have any one insure them ninety
per cent of calves from their entire COW.
herds this spring. Caldwell Journal.
The grazing lands Of Dakota, Montana,
Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Eastern
Oregon and Idaho are estimated at 1900
100000 acres. The Northern Pacific rail
road is now opening up a region capable
Of supporting 5000, o,oeo cattle and 10000
600 sheep, which when it shall be fully
occupied, can export yearly 100000 cat.
tie, 1,5O0. 600 sheep and 10000, 900 pounds
Of wool Nor rthwest.
A Dallas, Tex, dispatch Of the 7th says
that information has been received here
to the effect that George B. Loving, Of
this State, who is now in England repre-
senting the Texas improvement Compa-
ny, has sold large amount of ranch
property situated in four adjoining coun-
ties, on Double Mountain fork of the Bra
EOS river, for s2,5 900. This is said to
be the largest live stock transaction ever
made. r. : 4. !.
1t takes eleven pounds Of milk to add
one pound Of live weight to calf, and
an OK that weighs 1900 pounds will con-
sumo twenty-five pounds Of hay in TWEEN
ty-four hours to keep from losing weight.
Il he is to fatten he must have just twice
that quanty, when he Will gain two
pounds day. This is one pound live
weight to eleven pounds Of good hay. To
obtain fifty cents hundred for his hay a
farmer must sell fat steers at $3.50 per
hundred pounds.-lN. W. L. S. Journal.
We received call last week from q
young Mexican residing at Moncloya,
Miguel Arguindegui, who is interested in
ranching in the state of Coahuila. He
reports a good season and says stock are
doing well. Speaking Of selling cattle OF
other stock under estray laws, he says
they are sold whenever it is found that
the brand has not been recorded and
no owner appears. At any time within
six months the money may be reclaimed,
but after that time it goes to the public
Brands should be recorded at the capital
of a state, whence they will be forwarded
to the different municipalities for genes-
al recording. - Texas L. S. Journal. @
The one thing our Northwestern cattle
growers seem to be '.little or in is the
placing Of strange cattle upon theiI
ranges late in the season, SO late That
they do not become familiar with theii
surroundings until the winter is upon
them. During the warm, pleasant days
OF tho late spring and early summer ami.
mails will at once go to work on the in.
yiting green sward, and very soon be.
come as if to the manor born. But late
in the season they have disposition to
wander in search Of other and perhaps
better ranges. They are restless and
nervous, and do not take on fat prepara
tory for pature's trial season. In order
to withstand the rigors Of our northern
climate, range animals need to be at
home. Dumb animals have nerves and
temperaments just as men have. They
don't want any cheap Boarding house,
experience. They want a regular home
table, at which they are masters of cere,
mony. LII order to acquire that con;
tented feeling, they mnst be on the rangs
in time to learn all the characteristics O
their surround ndings, Then they are con
tented and happy. Under such condition
viii they take on fat and develop rapidly
Il oar herd owners would get all thei
leattle on the range BY the middle Of Jul,
leach year the mortality of the rang
would be almost entirely overeenae, VII
ever hoard Of q native dying III thi
country from the Yicissitudes Of TIE eli
matep OF course. there Is an oecasioana
COW dies in the carly spring from the d
4 fects of calf-lroppin but the bulk of iii
losses are confined to .'Tawhides,s Z 81 lat
l arrivals ". Live Stock Journal. 4
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