Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14


Tuesday morning a blizzard came in
Erom the ROEth, bUt=quisBed down in the
afternoon. Wednesday was lovely day
and Yesterday, Thursday. was also pleas
ant. The sneW yet covers the ground,
but 1t VIII more than likely disappear
this week. The streams are generally
open now, and the cattle do not have to
travel far to get water. The report nom
the ranges where no feed is being used
are Of course gloomy. and especially
from districts where cattle were driven
In last year; but cattle that are being fed
viii pick up in flesh with the present
favorable weather if the feed only holds
out.
The Burden Enterprise man seems to
deal IN hogs as well as ideas, and pro
pounds a problem for our State swine
doctor: eve have lost half a dozen very
hne pigs and shOats of 75 to 100 pounds
IN the last ten days with a disease ike
quinsy; their threats swell and the circu-
laIOn stops and they die. Mr.. NAYS says
it is black tush. On examination I found
every one affected has extra tushes that
are black; had some of them knocked
out, and have not lost any more. What
does our State Veterinary Surgeon call
the disease? Quite a number have died
Of the same disease in this vicinity. Some
elm peelers have died"
Dodge City Colg5Og: The weather has
been mOderating all through the week
and the snow has nearly disappeared.
Stock viii now be given a rest. The
losses up to the present time have not
been unusually heavy. No losses have
occurred where feed, shelter and water
have been furnished. Many losses are
OcCasiOned by cattle falling over steep
banks Of creeks. The most critical sea-
son for COWS is yet to come. In many
places the grass will be EOCted by the
melting snow, destroying its nutriment
Cows are liable to enter into the Calvine.
period in too weak q condition. They
now need the best Of attention.
The same care in separating a drove of
swine and faVOring the weaker ones will
enable them to be kept at profit, while
without 1t a part Of the drove will be
found no longer in the spring than they
were In the fall; in fact, 1t is not we'll to
keep more than three or four pigs in one
pen, as their habit of crow ding together
when they lie down makes them too
warm if their sleeping place is as warm
as 1t should be; and if it is not, they
crowd and fight for the inside places,
and the weaker pig will suffer in the
quarrel for the bed as much as at the
trough for food.
Euworth Nslcs: The profits of the
sheep business are equal to any that
man can engage IN, but they require ex-
ira care and management when held in
large HOCks. An instance of the increase
in a flock of 200 ewes taken in 1888 to
keep on shares by A. A. Thompson Of
YOrdy. The loss during the following
winter was but 8, only 4 per cent. The
number of lambs added to the flock by
increase was 185. The loss up to this
date this winter has been but five head.
Our friend must not only have taken
good care Of them, but has extraordinary
good luck.
Independence Star and K1n8an: Expe-
rienced cattle men here estimate that the
losses Of range cattle cannot be less than
forty per cent, while the depreciation IN
value during the year takes of another
forty per cent. from those that are left.
We hope it isn't so bad as this, but dur
ing the past week, certainly, with a heavy
snow on the ground that did not drift at
at all, but thaWed a little at the surface
each day to freeze and form a crust at
night, it is hard to see upon what cattle
that couldn't be fed subsisted.
Dodge City LiUe Stock Journal: The
loss of many cattle this Winter ASSURANCE
as it may seem, was caused by falling
down creek banks. The cattle get very
cold, and in drifting come to a bluff
creek bank and either stager over or
are pushed over by those behind them,
if not injured by the fall they are too
cold to get up, and lay there and die for
want Of food or water, and freeze.
Coag5oy: There is a well populated bo-
vine graveyard on the Kirby ranch In
COmanche county, on the headquarters of
the Medicine. Mr.. Kirby placed thereon
last FAN 800 head eff through Texas cat
tie, Of one Of the latest drives. They
were in. poor condition when they ar
rived. The result is that there will be
more hides and bones to sell on that
ranch this year than beeves.
Arkansas City Traveller: Shippers of
sheep and hogs should make an effort
this Winter to compel the railroads Of
Kansas to furnish double decRed cars as
they do in Missouri and most other States.
Sheep men especially are crippled in ship
ping by having to pay full car rates on
single decks for sheep.
Atwood Citizen; While hundreds of
thousands of cattle are being lost along
the wire fences south and on the ranges
of Montana, Dakota and the north, com
paratively no loss is being sustained by
cattle men Of this country.