Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-12-11
STOCK sQUIBs.
Points and Items About Kansas Stock


Osborne Farmer: A fine thoroughbred
Jersey red hog has been received by DR..
Harris, who also has good start in full
blood Poland China swine.
Gazette: The four thoroughbred bulls,
recently imported from England by Mr..
q. @. HOuten, are said to be the finest
ever brought to Dickinson county.
w. P. Higinbotham, near Manhattan,
is wintering $50 head of cattle, &c horses
and 250 hogs. He has 200 bulls and
heifers contracted for Spring delivery.
Osborne Farmer: The flock of sheep
belonging to Neiswanger Bros. has been
brought up from Russell county and To-
Gated on the Winfield township ranch.
Arkansas City Traveller: Blackshire &
Son traded the larger portion of their
herd of black cattle to- A. Hurst for his
farm in Sumner county, the considera-
ton being $500.
Leon Indicator: John C.. and James
w. Jones are full feeding ninety head of
steers on their 320acre Plum creek ranch
ard big bunch of hogs, besides $50
head of steers which they are roughing
through.
The livestock men of Lyon and ad-
joining counties met at the Coolidge re-
Gently, and organized Live Stock Mems
Association, to include Lyon, Wabaun-
see, Usage, Coffey, Greenwood and Chase
counties.
1t is said by cattlemen that there are a
larger number of stock being fed,
for beef, in the country than any
season before. There is no reason why
there should not be plenty of good beef,
and at reasonable prices.
Cheyenne Journal: One of the big
institutions of Sedgwick county not men
toned in the last State Agricultural Re-
port is the Jewett farm. It belongs at
the head of the stock farms of Kansas,
alongside two other farms in the State
in another industry, the Moser and Nc
Cracker fruit farms
Sterling Bulletin: Mr.. VIM. Fitzpatrick,
from Aurora, Ohio, an old Army COM
rade of Major Ricksecker, came in re-
Gently with two carloads Of stock, and
will proceed at once to fence his land,
one mile west of Sterling, and erect
a neat house thereon for the reception
of "the girl he left behind him."
The Randolph Echo learns that Theo-
dore Olson, living on Walnut creek,
within three days, has lost thirteen head
of cattle out of herd of seventy. There
seems to be some uncertainty as to the
cause of their death. From what we
hear, we Judge it has been feeding on
dry stalks without sufficient water.
Osborne Farmer: Stock throughout
the county should 60 through the Win
ter in frst-class shape. Not only is hay
and straw plenty, but corn, rye and fod-
der sufficient to outlast the longest
Kansas Winter, is on hand. Besides
this, tie old fallacy that stock need no
shelter has been exploded, and in most
cases farmers have tolerably warm
quarters for their animals. More barns
have gone up this Fall than have been
built, in the aggregate, since the settle
ment of the country, while graneries and
other necessary building erected within
the last few months have been almost
innumerable.
Caldwell Journal: This season 1885
cars of cattle and horses have been
shipped from our stock yards from the
Cherokee Strip ranges. The cars average
about % cattle to the car, and show q
total of 1856 head. The markets have
been so bad this season, or rather so I'M
certain, that many beeves have been
left on the range and will not reach mar
ket this year at all. The number of
cattle shipped shows an average of 54S
head from each of the 100 ranges on the
strip. But they do not represent more
than the produce of one-half of these
ranges, as many cattle were shipped
from other points from them. The ship
ments from the 100 Cherokee Strip
the range and show at least So, OOO, 900 as
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