Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-29
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Points and Items About Kansas Stock.


Burlington Patriot: We learn S. J. Car
ter has sold his interest in the stock
rancho and cattle pool in the Indian Ter
ritory.
Gaylord Herald: Scott & Haskell
shipped the finest car load of hogs last
Wednesday ever shipped from this point,
so pronounced by good judges.
Clay Center Times Capt Ira A. Flood
bought some grade COWS this week from
L. H. Stewart, of Five Creeks, that are to
go to his Five Creeks stock farm.
Winfield Courier: H. E. Silliman has
stock farm of ], 100 acres on Grouse creek
surrounded with a barbed wire fence,
which he will soon stock with cattle aud
sheep.
Larned ChronOScope: J. B. Long came
through here a few days since with
twenty-one head of fine thoroughbred
cattle, to be added to the herd Of Long
Bros, of Ness county.
Linwood Leader All the stock lost in
Stranger township, Leavenworth county,
during the past year was from the bites
Of mad dogs, two mules, six horses and
twenty-seven head of cattle.
Clay Center FErebrand: John Johnson
bought colt short time ago for $3.50
and was offered $500 for him a few days
after. He is daisy and can make his
mile inside of three minutes.
Cedarvale (Chautauqua Co.. Star: Dur
bin & Son sold to Hewins & Co. 101 head
of beef steers averaging 1197 pounds, re-
Gently. This was one of the finest lot of
cattle fed near here this Spring.
Jetmore ReveiUe: Mr.. J. 2. Rider, of
the Smoky pool, purchased recently the
Frush cattle numbering some $50 head
| held by A. B. Gilbert. He will leave
them for the present in charge of Mr.,
Gilbert. &
Dodge City Times: The Bugbee & Mel
son herd of l 100 cattle passed Mobeetie,
Texas, recently, going north, and showed
folks in the suburbs how hearty steers
act when they first behold the scarecrow
contriVances of civilization.
Sabetha Herald Atchison. & Morgan.
cattle buyers from Rlattsburg, AIissonn,
bought from. the farmers in. this vicinity
and shipped recently, tWenty-thTee cars
of fat cattle Sixteen cars went to st.
Louisiana seven to Chicago, Y
Seneca Courier: Recently ftwentyvseven
cars Of fat cattle were shipped from this
place to eastern markets They were
principally picked up in small lots among
our farmers. IS. Daniels, of3Stewartsville,
Mo-, shipped thirteen cars and the bal
ance by a stock man from Atchison. ) =. +.
Marion Record: In obedience, to the
law and the order of the State Veterinary
Surgeon, Sheriff Thompson has recently
destroyed four horses affected with CLAN
ders for John Durksen and one for Mar
tin Classen, in this county,. VIM. Madden
had destroyed one animal similarly
afflicted, and Geo. Lambert four before
the arrival of the sheriff. Killing these
poor dumb brutes was the hardest Job
Mr.. Thompson was ever called 1pon to-
perform = -
Larned Optic: Mr.. S. D. Fitzgerald, the
big sheep man of the upper Pawnee, re-
ports sheep doing very well at present,
and says he has lost only about ten per
cent. of his lambs during Landing this
Spring. He carried his large herd
through the Winter with loss of only
seven or eight head, those dying with
grub in the head.
Marshall County Meas :: DIR. a. I. Will
son sheared his pair of three year old
imported CotswoId sheep, lately. The
buck sheared 49, pounds, and the eve
Il pounds OF clean wool, not dirt. This
was less than 3 years growth of wool,
and was as fine "a quality as we have
ever looked at. It measured from nine
to ten inches In length.
RossviIIe NeaUs: c. W. Higginbotham
has the smallest. calf we have ever seen.
1t was born Friday Of last week and
weighed just nineteen pounds. It is per
fectly formed AMI symmetrical and looks
more like q large rabbit than calf In
looking for something strange In nature
it is more of a curiosity to Us to see some
thing of this kind than to see a 450
pound fat woman in a circus. So q
Bazine Cor. CoagbOy: J. E. Farnsworth,
one of our far-sighted citizens, has quiet
~ gone back on cane for stock feed, and
this Spring will SOW millet About all OF
our practical men win fall into line. Mr..
Fsrnsworth has five acres of alfalfa that