Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-04-25

/ w. J. Smith, Of Severy, shipped one
hundred head Of fine fat cattle from Sew
cry to st. Louis few days ago.
Frank Randall of Manhattan was SC
unfortunate as to. lose a thoroughbred
jersey calf last week. Had it lived i,
would have easily brought 500.
Peabody Gazette: Messrs. Rathbone
sold $50 head OF fat steers for S. so Del
100 lbs. the other day. w. H. Sutphiu
sold $50 head for good figure.
| Peabody Gazette: It cost the Short
Horn breeders in the recent combine
ton sale $3.50 to sell their 100 animals, OF
$3.50 per head. This shows that getting
up big sale is quite costly affair.
Peabody Gazette: DR.. Loose bought q
splendid Berkshire SOW at DR.. Lackeys
sale for $l5. The same night she gave
birth to seven beautiful pigs, making the
doctors Berkshires cost him less than So
head.
Oswego Republican,: w. w. Inglish.
who had span of horses stolen from
him some six years ago, was lucky to
recognize and claim them on the street
one day last week. They were among
lot of horses on their way West.
Cattlemen in southern Kansas are not
much concerned about the settlement
upon their ranges of grangers. The cat.
tlemen consider that the grangers will
be valued agents in the procurement Of
titles to the range.
Cattle On the Gorham range in Ford
county are in fair condition. Only q
few losses have occurred there up to the
present time. There are twelve thous.
and head of cattle on this range and
there are eighteen acres Of grazing land
to each head.
Ludwick Kramer of the the cattle firm
of Kramer & Sons. whose range is on
NO Mans Land" and who are holding
Is, 900 head of cattle, says that the cattle
losses on their range, from the warm
season OF last year to the warm and grass
producing season of the present, will not
exceed five per cent.
Some catllemen deny that there is such
an insect as heel fly. An experienced
range stackman has informed the Dodge
City Coa0boy that he had never found one,
although thousands of times he had
seen cattle rustling at the height of their
speed for the bogs to cool their fevered
feet. It is his theory that the annoy
ance to cattle by the oxidation from the
spines Of grubs, is the cause of the crazy
actions which is popularity attributed to
the heel fly.
The truth of the matter is that in wes-
tern Kansas, Texas, southern Colorado
and New Mexico cattle went through the
winter in unusually fine shape. The
weather was the worst ever known. in
frigidity temperature and prolongation
of severity, yet the good condition of the
range and the hardihood of the old rang
ers, enabled the cattle to successfully
buffet the icy blasts of the late terrible
winter. Where range cattle had an
abundance of sea room they got along
swimmingly. The late through Texas
cattle suffered severely upon the ap-
proach of the northers and many of
them woodbined, and the loco in some
localities causeed both horses and cattle
to yield to the inevitable, On the whole,
however, in the buffalo grass regions east
of the mountains, range live stock went
through the past winter in a manner sat
isfactory to the owners. In that portion
of the Indian territory, where the regu.
lar prairie or blue-stem grass covers the
plains, the cattle losses were heavy.
There is but little substance in prarie
grass in winter. The buffalo grass, when
properly cured, is quite as nutritious in
winter as when sporting hue of green.