, 1884-03-28


The Denver Times says: ''The next
legislature of Colorado will be called upon
to enact cattle quarantine laws for this
state. Wyoming is considerably ahead of
her southern neighbor in this respect.
She has a salaried inspector with author
ity to slaughter diseased cattle, an indem-
nifty fund, etc"
In some parts of Rhode Island the
farmers have their hogs skinned when
killed for home consumption, instead of
scalding them. Parties there make a reg
ular business of killing and dressing hogs
in that way, and allow about 81 each for
the skins and, as the farmer usually does
not care to eat the rind of the pork, they
are satisfied TO sell it for that price. The
skin is ~populary supposed to be used in
saddle making.
Mr.. George Bartholomew, the circus
man, will have a great attraction to pre-
sent to the Eastern raee-tracks the pres
ent year. 1t will be a tandem ~trotting
team, consisting of an OK, an elk and a
camel. The three will draw a chariot
weighing 1000 pounds, and will be backed
to trot a mile in three minutes and a half
or better. The OK is of the Texas breed,
and was raised at Deer Trail, Colorado.
The elk was secured in Wyoming and the
camel was bred in Arizona.
There are so many breeds of sheep"
says an old flock master, and so much
said in favor of each, that some men may
delay, not knowing which to take; and
others may be led to believe that some
one breed is the one, and neglect u good
opportunity to purchase some other.
But if a farmer will select from any flock
he can find, a few wide-breasted, broad
backed, d~eep-bodied, not too longlegged
sheep, and put a Southdown ram with
them, he will not make a very great
mistake
The next boom will be with the sheep,
predicts the Lire Stock Record. While
the wool interest has been depressed for
the past few years, the flock owners have
been quietly improving their focks, until
to-day it will 0 be over-estimating to
place the fine thoroughbred Merinos of
the State at one hundred and fifty thous-
and head, while there are at least three
hundred thousand half and th~ree-quarter
breeds, and a half million that are from a
quarter to an eigth, The common native
sheep are but few, and those few mostly
in the southern counties.
A very remarkable circumstance has
occurred out on the ranch of the Akron
Cattle Company, of New Mexico. 10
seph Fuss, foreman of the ranch, a few
days ago purchased a COW and a calf from
a Mexican who lived in the mountains.
When they were delivered, he discovered
that the supposed calf was not an infant
lie bovine, but a black-tailed fawn, which
followed the COW around and drew sub
sistance from her udder as if she were its
mother. The COW mothers the fawn and
makes as much ado over it as if she were
its natural mother, instead its being an
adopted nursellng,
The report of Commissioner Loring,
of the Department of Agriculture, for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, esti-
mates the number of cattle at 40, SAT, 302
head, valued at 81, JOG, us, 7O3 of hor-
ses and mules, 1908, 500, valued at 1894,
949, 1896 of hogs and sheep, "a, 727, $40,
valued at 1896, 203, S45, or a total value of
cattle, horses, mules, sheep and hogs of
50, ACT, SOS, 924. In 1850, with a popula-
ton of $4,000, coo, our total domestic an
imals were estimated at $40. 0OO, 900. In
1880, with a population of $4,000, 900,
they were estimated at l,S2O, 900, 900.
This demonstrates that while population
increased something more than 100 per
cent, in thirty years, the domestic animal
increase was nearly $50 per cent. for the
same period,