Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-22
STOCK sOUIBs.
Points and Items About Kansas

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
l Three thousand sheep passed through
Mcpherson recently, on their way t
Cloud county.
| The cholera has made sad havoc with
the hogs in Atchison county. The los
to the farmers has been heavy.
Take good care of your stock now. See
that it has plenty of feed, water anC
shelter, and you need have no fear as to
the result in the Spring.
Stock pasture will, in all probability
command higher rent the coming sea
son than it has heretofore, as the open
range is being rapidly enclosed.
Strong City Independent: More hogs
were shipped from this market the frs,
two days of this week than for two
weeks before. The advance in the hog
market is the cause of this.
tie running in stock fields. James Coun.
try-man, OF near Hanover, lost fine
three.year-old heifer the other day from
the effects of eating dry husks.
This is hard weather fol sheep. They
can stand anything better than damp
ness, and every man who keeps sheep in
this country should be well prepared to
house them in pen with a dry floor du-
ring sloppy, wet weather.
Pratt Center Press: 1t is reported here
that cattle are dying of some strange
malady northeast of this place, MIR. Mil
houser having lost several. Parties in
that neighborhood contemplate asking
the State Committee to investigate the
matter.
| On all sides we hear of COWS dropping
calves since the cold weather set in, and
of course the little ones perish. Would
| it not be we'll for stockmen to regulate
the time of calving by keeping their
bulls out of the heard, say until July LIST,
and thus prevent the loss Of both calves
and cows.
Junction City Union: Ingalsbe, re-
Gently boughta car load of cattle and one
of hogs from Boiler and McGinty, and q
car load each of hogs and cattle from NJ.
E. Clark He has shipped seven car
loads of hogs this week. The rise to
$3.50 has caused little stir in the hog
market.
Wa-Keeney World: On the 18th O
this month a new cattle pool was formed
in the southeast part of Grove county.
1t is called the Forester Pool. The
members of the pool are l. P. Olive, For
roster Bros, Joseph Gotier, kelliman
Bros. Joseph Middleby and f. Il. Motif
Secretary and Treasurer. The pool has
twenty miles of fence and 1000 cattle.
The recent severe cold weather has
caused much suffering among stock of
all kinds. Those of our stockmen who
have failed to provide feed and shelter
for their stock are not happy over the
prospect of an Over-supply of hides to
be put on the market in the Spring,
while those who have on hand plenti-
full supply of feed are rejoicing and bid
ding defiance to the Wintry blasts.
Thayer Headlight: A bad case of CLAN
ders is reported east of town. A team of
mules belonging to w. R. Metcalf, are in
terrible condition and should be killed
at once. The State Veterinary Surgeon
two counties to visit before he could get
here. Thore can be no doubt but what
it is CHAMBERS of the worst form. Human
beings have been known to catch the
disease
Olathe Republican: John Wolfe was
in town last Saturday and brought with
him a valuable horse. which he informed
us he was offered $3.50 for, hut refused it.
He went home that night and put the
horse in the stable with other horses as
was his custom. The next morning
when he went out to feed his stock he
discovered that the horse he had been
offered $3.50 for the day day previous
had been kicked on the leg, the limb be-
ing broken and shattered so badly that
he was compelled to kill him.
Marion Record: Mr.. A. G. Spencer, of
CatIin, has had some experience and is
mighty level-headed man, besides, and
he says it pays big to furnish shelter for
cattle. He Gays one ordinary animal will
sell for enough to pay for material to
house nine and that the saving in feed
and increase in flesh on the nine will
make up for the tenth, and then the
man has the satisfaction of knowing
that the poor dumb brutes are being
we'll cared for, which is a great consid-
Grafton to any one who has heart.
Hanover Democrat: We are informed
that some farmers who have lost hogs
are depositing them on the ice on the
Little Blue. This is wrong. Hogs dy-
ing with disease going over the coun-
try should be buried. To deposit them
in place like river, where they are IL
able to infect whole districts, is crimi-
nal offense under our State law, and the
sooner the matter is understood the bet
ter. 1t is the duty of every farmer to
prevent, as far as possible, by quarantin-
ing, and other proper restrictions, the
spread of any disease among stock.
Larned Optic: We hear that some of
our cattle men have sustained consider
able loss during the cold weather which
prevailed during the past two or three
weeks, but as the reports are generally
exaggerated in such cases we are not
disposed to make any statements until
the facts can be ascertained. There has
been more and cheaper feed in the coun-
try this season than ever before, and we
do not believe the losses will foot up
near so heavy this Winter as they did
last. Our stockmen are getting better
fixed every year to take care of their cat
tie, and in few years more, losses, ex-
cept on the range, will be the exception
instead of the rule.
Manhattan H,dustrialist: Recent weigh
ings Of experimental steers and pigs
forcibly reminds us that we have just
passed through period of intense cold.
Although these animals are fairly well
sheltered, tie gain in most cases is slight,
and in many cases entirely wanting.
We are each year more impressed with
the fact that the farmer of the future
who makes the most of everything on
the farm will see that the animals to be
fattened are SO far advanced during the