Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-07-10
NOTES FOR THE STOCK RAISER.

The flies are more annoying e
stock this year than common, /:
the report from all sides.
The estimates are that from go. !,
600 TO 10000 head Of cattle vii
be driven from Texas this year.
The cattle in the region of the
Sac and Fox are said 10 be doing
well but none are yet ready for
shipment.
Some Of the southern Kansas pa.
pers are advocating a neck tie fes-
tival for the purpose of breaking
up the prOmiscuOus stock stealing.
There are 1900 horses on tho
Dodge City market, OF was a few
days ago, so II Is reported Three
OF four herds have left there. in tho
past week, and started back to theil
home.
Two head of young cattle be-
longing to Mr.. Howell, on Little
Cabin, have recently died, and the
cause is presumed to be black leg.
The disease Is not reported else
where.
Old Mexico has twenty million
head of cattle, and 4 hundred thou
sand of these viii BE- sent up 10
Colorado and a hund-ed thousand
10 Wyoming and Nev Mexico the
present year.
To clIrc lice on cattle. put a pint
Of air-dry Stacked line in 4 cotton
bag and dust the tattle with it.
Two applications a week or ten
days apart viii clean them off. A
pint of lime viii be enough for two
full grown animals.
In the Barber county roundup
no strays are being tsken along ex-
the owners are knswn. all un-
claimed stock being left on the
range on which II Is scmd. Nav
ericks are gObhled blythe first man
who can get his iroa IN them.
Caldwell Standard, 2nd:-In the
next four DAYS there will be four
special trains of abou twenty cars
each leave this city loaded with
cattle for Minneapolis, Minnesota.
They belong TO Mr.. Lseph Rosen-
baum, and consist Of learlings.
The raising Of mul,s, which is
declared in n,sOuthern Lansas to be
much more profitable than horses,
should receive favorable consider
alton throughout the Territory.
Many Of our surroundings are iden-
teal or superior ior the purpose to
theirs.
One man recently slipped twen-
ty-eight sacks of wo,l, weighing
over 500 pounds each from Cald-
well 10 Philadelphia. His sheep
high grade and fullblOod Meri-
nO-sheared a little Ovsr six pounds
each. The rams averaged a shade
over twenty-four pounls.
An agent of 4 heavy Texas cattle
company offers 20 un0ad almost
any number Of very sick yearlings
at this point for SIC pr head. or
twos at $50. Cows bred best in
Texas, but their off0ring grow
into beef much more rpidly in the
Territory. As a consequence IL
pays best to buy TexS yearlings
and rear them here.
El1red & Co.'S. ranchnen on salt
Fork in Barber County, turned
loose some DAYS ago and killed
Charles II. and Th0m9 X. Watts.
These parties had ben wilfully
cutting fences belonging 10 the
COW men, and when reconstructed
with opened FIRE. A coDner's jury
declared the acts justiiable, but
the county attorney at once filed
complaint and had fOurof the par
ties arrested.
Caldwell Joumal,Aruvne *
Ayers have sold and ddivered To
Mr.. Foss their bunch Of took cattle
now IN the FOss pasture, at $50
around The herd numbered about
800 hesd and were a ven fair stock |
Of cattle. They have ben held on
ikat range for the past tlree years.
There are probably fifIees thousand /
head Of stock cattle or ycIng steers |
n the market and on the trail 4
between here and Red Fork. They 1
viii not be sufficient to supply the 4
lemand, when that demand comes /
which viii be as soon as tie beevcs
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