Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-06
STOCK sQUIBs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
Pink-eye prevails among horses at En-
pOria.
Sheep are worth $3.50 per head in
Marion county.
Eight car loads of sheep were shipped
to market recently from Peabody.
A Stockmen's Convention will be held
at Caldwell in March.
Ellis Headlight: Several cases of losses
of young cattle by blackleg are reported
in this vicinity.
Severy Journal: DeFord and Drake
! butchered hog the other day that net
ted $40 pounds. How is this?
Peabody Graphic: Phil Hanna was the
loser of valuable hog weighing over 300
pounds. Congestion of the lungs.
West of Ellis reports say that twenty
per cent of the live stock unsheltered
have died from the effects of the late Sc
we're storm.
Norton Courier, Maple Grove item /:
! The last storm has been severe on sheep
that were. not well fed and sheltered.
John Conway lost seventy-five, and J..
Roosa lost quite number.
Jetmore Reueille: Mr.. Geo. G. Lover
| ing reported his sheep as doing we'll.
Mr.. Goff, of Cowland, commissioner from
the Sd district, reports his cattle as doing
well, with no losses worth speaking OF.
Mcpherson Independent: T. J. Matth-
eWs and son sold on Saturday $3.50 worth
of hogs, getting at the rate Of $3.50 per
| hundred, live weight. A few hundred
hogs would be good thing to have just
now.
Caldwell Journal. It pays to raise good
cattle, as was evidenced last week in one
of our local breeders receiving an offer of
| 81 800 for one of his year1ing heifers and
| $500 for two fYe-months calves. It is
needless to say that the offers were not
accepted.
Clay Center FGre-brand: The stock
| sale at E. Moons, in Riley county was
we'll attended. The total amount real
lied from the sale was 81, 800. Horses
averaged $I4O per head; COWS $45 per
head yearling steers and heifers, $22
per head.
It is estimated that ten per cent of
range stock in Western Kansas has been
lost since last July. Vague rumors are
| that heavy losses have occurred on the
Beaver and Canadian river but they are
unauthenticated. Stock is all thin in
flesh, and another storm would do great
injury.
Dodge City Globe: Bear in mind that
| Western Kansas Stock Growers Associa-
ton meets at this place April I'd, and
that very large attendance of stockmen
| from all over the country are expected.
There will be three days session, at
which much important business will be
transacted.
Keysville item in Larned ClsronOscope.
Monday and Tuesday, the 18th and
18th were the hardest days on stock we
have had this winter. Miller and Kings
ton each lost three head. These were
cattle that were shipped in from Iowa
the past year. Native stock are coming
through the winter in good shape.
Kinsley Graphic. We visited the
ranch of DR. j. O. Tutle on Tuesday last,
and viewed his fine display of Gallow cat
tie. They are doing fnly and are i'm
proving under his management. The
doctor is putting great confidence in the
GallOways, we feel strongly impressed
that his confidence is not misplaced.
Jetmore ReveiUe: Mr.. S. w. Grundy
reports losing valuable COW in a very
drinking at the creek she slipped and
fell in such a way as to instantly break
her neck. Bakehouse Bros, also lost
one of their best cows by her slipping
into hole and getting caught under the
ice.
Kansas City Indicator. Mr. w. W. Car
ney, of Great Bend, Kan, writes that he
has just lost five yearling steers in the
same way described by Mr.. Beckett in
the Indicator, of last week. They would
apparently be in. good health up to with
in five or six hours before dying and
| then become wild and act as though af-
f1icted with hydrophobia. He is anx-
ious to know the cause.
Ellis Headlight: A young heifer in w.
7. Perry's herd died Sunday. The car
cass was cut open and examined to find
out what was the. cause of the death of
the animal, and it was found that it had
swallowed pieces of wire by eating straw
which was cut by a wire binder, and
some of the pieces had penetrated the
heart. Perhaps if examinations were
made in all cases it would be found that
| biackIeg is not the cause of the death of
so many cattle as is commonly supposed.
Caldwell Journal: It is currently re-
ported that one brand of cattle below
the Cimarron will be short on the Spring
roundup almost so per cent. In numbers.
They we're driven late and were from
Southern ArkansaW The cattlemen on
i the Strip viii not sustain of over D per
I cent. at the outside, for this winter. The
/ reason of this is that most Of the Strip
i cattle are single-Wintered and the ranges
are not overstoeked. 0verstOcked ranges