Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-02-12
STOCK sQU1Bs.
Points and Item. About Kansa sstock.

Points and Items About Kansa sstock.
Less stock, better quality, good shell
ter and plenty of Winter feed.
Slight losses have occurred among cat
tie on the Stage ranch, owned by Mr.
! Houston.
In Jewell county the weather has
been severe on stock. Hogs have suf
fered the most.
Cattle on the D. W. ranch, owned by
Drake & Warren, are doing well. No
losses reported.
The losses on the ranges on Bluff and
Bear cree ks have been confined princi-
pally to through Texas cattle.
Simpson .Sftinys: Our shippers COM
plain that 1t is almost impossible to OBJ
tain cars to ship their grain and stock in.
Advices from Stafford Gays there has
been no loss of stock in that community
to speak of yet this Winter. Feed is
plenty.
Sterling is gloating over the fact that
one of her butchers has on sale Polled
Angus beef, the first ever marketed in
that city.
The Ellis county board of Commission
ers has fixed the bouDties on wolves as
follows. Black wolves, S.; gray wolves,
So; coyotes, 81.
The Francklyn Land & Cattle COM
pany have sustained heavy losses. Many
of the Kentucky bulls placed on their
range last year are dying.
Hog cholera has died out in Ottawa
county. Not 80 many cattle are being
corn fed as last Winter, but shorthorns
are reported as doing fine.
Simpson SJtings: Mr.. James Robert
son, who lives just north of town, sold to
Kansas City parties, last Monday, thirty
six head of young cattle for $2,175.S5.
Cholera is raging among the hogs in
Harvey county and they are dying by
the hundreds. On the contrary, cattle
are are quite healthy and doing nicely.
Farmers living along the Dragon
creek in Usage county, have lost about
500 hogs this Winter from lung fever.
The Winter has been too cold for the
porkers.
Miller Bros, at Junction City slaught-
cred as that weighed, alive 500 pounds;
after being killed 20 hours her meat
weighed 4SG pounds-losing but 40
pounds. Everything was taken out of
her including heart and liver.
jamestown Kansan: An "honest far
mer," brought in load of hogs recently,
which he had doped with meal and
water till they couldn't move. 1t didn't
pay however, as they got sick and puked
up all they had eaten for 10, these many
days.
There has been some losses of both
horses and cattle in the vicinity of Le-
nora, most of which is the effect of no
shelter or feed through the late storms
The buffalo grass is good this season, but
for the last four weeks it has been cov-
cred most of the time with snow.
Wellington Press: We are told that
Geo. VIM, of Caldwell, formerly of
Wellington, bought 100 head of fine cat
tie last Fall and sent them into one of
the western counties to winter. Thirty
Of them died, and lately he sold the 9TH
ers at SIS a head and retired from the
cattle business.
John T. Sidnerer, foreman of the Wat
son & Foreman ranch in Comanche coun-
ty, says that the Winter has played the
very mischief with cattle on their range
The cattle were in good condition when
Winter approached, and there is no loco
there to use as scapegoat. Two-year-
old range steers have died by the score,
which is something unknown before.
Two hundred head are being corn-fed at
Sedgwick City, and they are all right
There are 5000 head on the Watson &
Foreman ranch.
A correspondent from Victoria writes
that cattle have had a terribly hard
time for the past five weeks. Some few
old cows have died, also many calves.
Where calves have dropped in the snow,
they have in many cases, been frozen to
death. Horses, when some hay has been
supplied, have, as usual, done pretty
well. Feed, of which there was an
abundance last Fall, will soon be all
used up. Complaints are general, that
cattle have lost flesh even when fed
grain and all the hay they could eat
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