The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-09-04

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It is estimated that there are now in.
Montana, including calves, upward ofa
million cattle, besides horses and sheep.
The Swan cattle company Of Wyoming
are now in the midst Of their beef har-
vest. The company is reported to have
10,0O0 head Of four-ycar-old steers.
Northern New Mexico cattIemen will,
make q test case OF the sheep protection
law and will carry it to the highest court
5if necessarily IN. N. Stock Grower.
Il Driscoll & Son! last week shipped from
Dickinson tifty-eight carloads Of fat cat
Meto Chicago. Their shipments from
there this season will amount to about
12 600 head. y
8 Last Friday two stock trains collided
at Columbia, Penn, and o dispatch from
Lancaster says the wreck took fire and
800 sheep and hogs were consumed, only:
30 being saved. n
Texas stbronchos" are being introduced
|in Asia. A short time ago a train Of
sixteen cars Of Texas horses, mares and
stations, left New Orleans, the destinar
tioni Of which was Constant ntinople.
Col. Gile, Of Ellsworth county, Kansas,
says she has thirtysix head Of half-breed
Short horn cattle, the product of one COW
within the last t:tweIYo years besides 20
head sold Or slaug Uttered. Kan. E. s.
Indicator. VS.
The Arab compels his horse to feed
from the ground, in order to maintain the
curve OF the backbone. Come to think of
| it this is the natural way Of feeding, and
is an agrument for low managers. IN. N.
Stock Grower.
-Four carloads Of unbrOken Colorado
bred horses will in q few days bs shipped
to, Europe. They are all half-breed Nor
mans, Of good size and style, and will be
landed in London and placed upon the
market [Col.- i. s. Record. $;
The cattle Shipment from here this
season have already amounted to 295 car
/! loads, or 6,0OO head, and 1t is stated by
the railroad officials that 4 great many
more carloads will be shipped before the
season is over. ckinson Press. 8
A gentleman who held the watch
on the boys tells us that John Far
ineton and his outfit. at the Quis-
Itaque { ranch, lately branded 400
calves in just 100 minutes, which is
Itolerably quick work Mobeetie, (Tex.)
Panhandle. N
For five years j have had o horse with
hoofs shelly and brittle. so that II was
difficult to keep shoes on him during the
dry weather Of July and August. In may
last I dressed his fleet with pine tar, and
now repeat 1t every week, and the hoofs
|are perfectly sound even ins mid sum
mer q. W. Dunning In the N. \.
Tribune
Young men of England have been I'd
fvised to come 70 America to engage ID
raising mutton for the Engl lish market
4 Itis predicted that the supply cannot
keep pace with the demand. Perhaps
the young men Of y America Win do well
Ito eonsider such advice as being worthy
their attention. Exchan nge. Sss
4 sIf the cattle owners carry out theil
resolu ution made early In the season
1eyery bull win lbe removed from the range
lin northern Colorado BY the frst Of No.
lyember. HID this been done Last year
Il two Or three hundred thousand dollasi
would have been saved In the death Iooses
and the bulls after being fed through
the winter. would have been worth one
| third more IN the spring Denver {gol.
IL. s. Record.
man named Brown, one of the trail
il Hands with j Texas herd, Was shot al,
4 killed On the head of the Frsnchman
lfsW days ago By : fellow w-berder. Th
II man rode up u the wagon and founl
Brown asleep under II, went up TO hin
II and took hts x.shootsr, then woke hin
slup and shot him; he then mounted
hofss and skipped The cause was al
Old gr1dge Brown was buried whsr,
! EEils was killed. IN n. NJ Y. 8. journal. 81
The Ijts Indians continue their depse
Edations In Utah and Colorado Thsy9ar
making times very tronblsseans for th
4 sIsettiers and stockmeR there lfhs latte
had quite d skirmish with them on III
dolores few days since, IA which on