Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-21
STOCK soUIBs.
Points and items About Kansas s.,o,,,

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Severy Journal C. f. Wilson has two
colts nine months old that weigh 1850
pounds.
Abilene Gazette: Distemper is prevail
ing to some extent among horses in this
vicinity.
Osborne Farmer E. R. Powell last
week sold Burke q Co. three hogs that
tipped the scales at 100.
"Care of Farm Stock was the tonic
principally discussed by the Bluemont
Farmers Club at recent meeting.
Keeney & Himrod, of Yates Center. re-
Gently shipped two carloads of fulfilled
cattle, which averaged / ,45l3 pounds.
Council Grove Cosmos: Black Leo
among the cattle seems to exist to a con-
siderable extent in the neighborhood ten
miles north of here.
Usage City Free Press: JIM Orr, of ivy.
says that his hogs are dying with the
cholera. He has already lost seventeen
and expects to lose fifteen more.
Holton Recorder: jeremiah Chubb. one
of our most energetic farmers, is feeding
sixty head Of fat cattle, about seventy-five
head OF stock cattle, and large number
of hogs.
Kingman Citizen: Horses are dying in
Barber county from a mysterious cause.
Loco doctors are administering antidotes
to large number that have fed upon
the deadly weed.
Manhattan Nationalist: A year ago the
Latter brothers gave $3.50 for a span Of
mares. One of the mares has just been
sold for $175, and her colt could be sold
for 5000 if they were willing to part with
Strong City Ittdependent: w. 81 Shaft.
living near Crawford Station, we learn.
has lost sixty-five head of hogs within
the past three weeks, with what some
suppose to be cholera, but what others
call pneumonia, or some disease of the
lungs.
Saline Journal: Mr.. Clark has import
ed two jacks from Spain-being respect
lively 10 and Is hands high-for his farm.
He will also ship for his farm from New
York, two carloads of fine mares. Mr..
Jonas Benfield has purchased a 81, 600
stallion.
Hutchinson Interior: Henry Hartford
sold a thoroughbred bull calf last Satur-
day for $50 cash in hand to Colorado stock
men at Centerville, Colo. Stock men are
finding out they can get better grade Of
stock in Reno county than they can by
sending East and paying two prices.
Sedgwick Palladium: J. @. HYDE. of
Sedgwick county, and H T. Lantis, of
Harvey county, returned from Missouri
with an imported Spanish Jack, JIMMY
and Jack colt, said colt sired by a Jack
49, hands high. Lantis bought very
fine Short-horn calf, weighing LOCO
pounds at twelve months old.
Norton Courier: On Monday last G. H.
Griffin delivered 119 head of steers to G.
w. Dockstader, grain dealer and stock
man of Cawker City. These cattle were
brought up on the range, having never
received any grain until very recently.
The cattle were weighed here, and
brought Mr.. Griffin the snug sum of some
thing over $4,000.
Oskaloosa Independent: Dave Smith of
Winchester shipped two carloads of cat
tie from McLouth yesterday-one fur
nished by A. D. Judy and the other by j.
G. w. Davis. The sixteen head of Davis
cattle averaged over 1,400 pounds, and
were very fat and nice. Five dollars and
fifty cents was paid for them.
El Dorado Republican! BY practicai
experiment. Measrs. Niles and Efssm have
demonstrated that well-to-do steer will
take on three pounds of flesh per day
during the first Of the winter; two pounds
per day in January; and that during
February and March an increase is posi-
BILE over the frst-named figures.
J. S. Codding, an experienced Kansas
Wool-grower lays down the following
platform for those who would succeed in
the same business "The Merino must
take precedence. Their known adapta-
bility to large focks, their wool-produc-
ing and hardness all combine to make
them popular. Better throw the carcass
away at four years old, than trust to any
other breed. Wool is the main point,
and mutton secondary. Select good
sheep for stock. Be your own Judge of
what you want. Don't pay long prices
for short sheep. Keep level heads, and
don't allow any of your breeders or ram
peddlers to impose on you. Start right
and feed regularly and well, get good
assistants; feed them well, pay and
treat them the same, and no depression
will keep you from success.
An old German. living near Mount
Vernon, Ind, goes out every day about
noon and takes a plunge In the river,
even if he has to cut a hole IN the ice.
The other day when the Thermometer
was away below zero he broke the ice
and went in as usual, but didn't stay
long. Having some distance to run on
the ice to where he left his clothes. he
was frozen so stiff when he got to them
that he couldn't get them on. His wife