Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-01
STOCK sQUIBs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
There will be a sale of 100 Shorthorns
at Parsons, on May I'd and Sd.
A thoroughbred Merino lamb yielded
fourteen pounds Of wool near Burlington.
The wool growers around Asherville
will hold their annual shearing festival
in Asherville in May.
At public sale in Stafford, Chase coun-
ty, on June 18th, IS ShorthOrns, 400
grade cattle and 25 horses will be sold.
Sidney Cowboy: w. S. Beck has lost
yearling steer Of blackleg. This is queer
season Of the year for that disease.
Sidney Cowboy: Sheep in this locality
are now doing well. The new grass on
the range is furnishing them with an
abundance Of subsistence.
Oberlin Herald: Kaufman Bros, Of
Jackson, inform us that out of flock of
1900 head of sheep they only lost 50
head during the winter.
Sidney CooUbOy: The heel-fy is annoy
ing cattle these days, causing them to
take refuge in the streams, to be relieved
of the pest. Annoint the heels of cattle
with rancid grease.
in and around Downs are organizing a
stock company for the purpose of i'm
porting a cargo of thoroughbred horses
from France.
The Western Central Kansas Stock as
ISOLATION has standing offer of $500 re-
ward for stock thieves and 5000 for the
arrest of persons setting fire to grass on
the ranges, causing damage to any mem
Der.
Kinsley Mercury: Dr. J. G. futile has
received another lot of fine Galloway
stock. This shipment included six fine
| young bulls and four heifers. The bulls
ranged from fifteen months to three
years old, weighing from twelve to sew
enteen hundred pounds each.
J. S. White, a member of the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission, visited the
! herds of cattle in Clay county supposed
to be infectsd with blackleg, and learned
that two calves had died and alarmed
the people. He thinks the disease will
not spread, and that there was no neces-
sity for summoning the Commission.
Salina Herald: Mr.. B. S. Wilson's cat
tie, tifty-eight in number, averaged four
| teen hundred andsixteen pounds. These
fine steers brought him four thousand
three hundred and twelve dollars. He
has sold five hundred dollars worth of
hogs fattened behind these cattle, and
has a car load of hogs left. Who says it
don't pay to feed stock in Kansas.
Caldwell Journal: Reports from the
ranges are to the effect that cattle are
not as poor as stated some weeks ago.
Though cattle that were driven late have
Jared badly, range cattle are in fair to
good shape, and with the green grass
that is now growing they will begin to
lay on fat. Horses have not, as a rnle,
done well, where they have run on the
range. Stockmen, as a general thing
ale well satisfied with the manner in
which their stock has wintered.
The second annual sheep shearing OF
the Western Kansas Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION occurred at Wa-Keeney April
|. 18th. Among the feeces were first, three
rams belonging to T. W. Miller, shearing
} on an aggregate 283 pounds. The next
in point of weight were two rams be
longing to G. H. Gibbs, which sheared
respectively 81 and 244 pounds. Gibbs
had one eve lamb of thirteen months
growth which sheared 81 pounds, the
carcass weighing but 233 pounds. J. NJ
Ostrander's four rams sheared 994 pounds
Adams & Feet's fourth grade sheep aver
afied ten pounds of wool each. 1t is the
prevailing opinion of sheep men anC
visitors that the three Miller rams were
heavily "doped' to secure heavy weight
The sheep interests of Kansas are grow
/ tablished industries.