Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-28
STOCK sQUIBs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
Horse thieves are reported to be very
numerous in the Southeastern part of
the State.
Frankfort Bee: Mr. A. E. Hight had a
fine cow bitten by mad dog about three
weeks ago. Sunday the bovine was tax
en- i'll with hydrophobia, and died ere
night had drawn its mantle over the sad
scene.
Medicine Lodge Inder: A gentleman
who has bunch Of extra fine high grade
three-year-old steers in Comanche coun-
ty was this week offered $50 around for
them on the range. 1t pays to put good
blood into them.
Peabody Gazette: The Shorthorn breed
ers of Kansas and Missouri are turning
their bull calves into steers, as a steer
brings more than bull and is not one
quarter as hard to keep. We opine Short
horn bulls will be high and scarce next
Spring.
Council Grove Cosmos: We learn that
the Texas fever has got into some of the
herds in our vicinity. w. ]. McGeorge
lost seven head of fine steers this week
and several others report losses. The
cattle men are leaving nothing undone
to check its course and we hope the
worst is over.
Medicine Lodge Inder: Yearling heif-
ers are away below steers this season.
One stockman this week said he sold a
lot of good neifers for ST. so, whereas had
they been steers they would have
brought at least $1,000 He thinks it will
be well enough to spay she cattle for
awhile, until the surplus of this class can
be worked of.
Windfeld Courier: Two years ago last
March, Mr.. N. Copeland, of Beaver,
bought a SOW at J. W. Brownings sale.
Last Winter she sold $40 dollars worth
of hogs. Tuesday he sold 500 worth, and
he has thirty-seven head valued at $500,
left. During this time he has used all
the meat he wanted for the family. The
SOW purchased ofMr. Browning in March
49, is the only hog he has bought in Kan
sas, and the above results represents two
years and four months increase. $40 is
the amount of profit.
Emporia Neus: The new team of sor-
rels lately purchased by the city have
received careful and diligent training at
son. At the simple tap of the gong on
the hose. cart, the horses leave their
stalls and take their places beside the
tongue of the cart and all is ready in a
"jiffy" to pull out to fire. The sorrels
60 to their positions, too, and stop there,
even when the doors in front of them
are wide open.
Manhattan Republic: 1t is generally
thought that s., 275 is large price to pay
for q COW, and some were inclined to
think that C. M. Clifford & Son were car
Eied away with Short-horn enthusiasm
to pay this sum for Flat Creek Mary
COW at the Hamilton sale, but they have
received an offer from an Eastern party
for the COW that would leave them good
profit. The offer, however, was not &C.
cepted. Think of paying more for a COW
than for a good farm of 160 acres! Yet
there is money made in raising calves
from such high priced COWS.
Peabody Gazette: Just at daybreak a
short time ago, we saw gentleman lead
ing nice young red bull through town.
We inquired whence he came, whittier
he went and what he had. We found
he had walked all the way from Abilene,
leading the bull, and had travelled the
whole way in the night, and that he was
in charge of an imported Cruikshank
bull for the Elmwood herd. The ami
mails name is Brampton's Pride, and
came, we are informed, from the great
herd of Amos Cruikshank, Sittyton, Alb
erdeenshire, Scotland.