Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-26
STOCK sQUIBs.

STOCK sQUIBs.
There is no hog cholera in Ford cori,z
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Ell Dorado Republican,: MI. George
Parker raised q calf which at two years
and one month old weighed 400 pounds
after having been shipped to Kansas
City.
Stock In Reno county are in most ex-
cellent condition. Cattle have been
troubled with no diseases whatever. and
only occasionly have hogs been carried
off by cholers.
The state veterinary surgeon was call
ed to Wichita the other day to investi-
gate the two cases of glanders which
were reported there. He advised that
they both be killed as they were endan-
gering other animals in the vicinity.
Ell Dorado Republican,: Hog cholera.
or some other disease, is getting away
with number of hogs in this vicinity
consequently cattlemen are hesitating
about feeding t. is winter. One of the
sources of cattle feeding is in hogs. If
no cattle are fed We do not know what
will be done with the corn crop.
Ell Dorado Republicans: When the hog
cholera once gets fair hold no remedy
yet discovered will cure the hog. Thou
sands of dollars in rewards have been
offered for cures by different states and
individuals but as yet nothing has been
found that will arrest the disease after it
becomes well developed.
Garden City lrigator: Cattlemen tell
us that the late rains have set the grass
on the range to growing and that there is
not now sufficient time before frost for it
to cure. It follows that the coming win
ter will be hard one on cattle, and that
there will be big demand for feed. No
one should fail to put up every ton with
in their reach. It will bring good
price.
Independence Star: Among the many
farmers who have suffered by the rava-
ges of hog cholera during the past few
weeks is Mr.. J. M. Altaffer who has lost
$500 worth-three fourths of his entire
drove. He thinks that we should look
to preventive laws to stamp out the dis
ease, which only develops here when
diseased animals are brought in from
other states.
Wichita Eagle: Mr.. L. G. Whittier re-.
Gently purchased a celebrated mustang
stallion, little slim in flesh, but he
thought soon to remedy that defect by
pouring lots OF grain into him, but in
this he failed. The horse would eat
nothing but what was green, 80 he re-
manned as thin as ever. At length he
put pair of green spectacles on the no.
BILE brute, and now he eats corn with
avidity.
Bennington Journal: A strange disease
is affecting the cattle on the range north
west of town The cattle seem to become
weak -eyed and finally become totally
blind. Mr.. Green League says the disease
may be seen in various stages among the
cattle of the farmers near him. Some
blind; others blind of one eye; and others
ust going blind. Mr.. League has written
to the state veterinary surgeon to come
and look into the matter.
Edwards county Justly boasts of hav-
ing raised all the pork this year that they
will need until next fall, with number
of cars besides to ship to market. They
have plenty of beef for their own use
and some to spare, and the corn they
will fatten this live stock with, they
raised themselves, besides enough other
farm products to make them pretty in
dependent, and the county altogether
prosperous.
Dodge City Cowboy DR.. A. A. Hol
combe, state veterinary surgeon, who
has been visiting the Y L pasture, on
the Cherokee strip, in company with
Peter Harding, to inspect cattle reported
to be sick with Texas fever, returned to
Dodge City last Tuesday. He verifies
that the fever is there aid that some
cattle have died from the disease. He
made diagnosis of one case which was
supposed to be Texar fevea, and satisfied
himself that his supposition was cor
rect.
Dodge City Cowboy It will pay every
stockman to be merciful to his stock. It
is inhuman as well as disastrous, to have
more stock than can be provided for in
all respects, through the rigorous winter
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an abundance of water in the winter.
More stock die in winter for the want of
water than from any other cause. The
consumption of dry hay produces thirst.
1t would be a good thing if stock could
have excess to water three or four times
a day. On most all of our small ranches,
water can be obtained by digging.
Where it is practicable there should be
wells in corrals where stock are fed.
Water can be lifted by wind mill pumps
and discharged into tanks whenever
wanted. Watertanks prevents the kill
ing of stock by falling over banks of
streams OF getting riveted in the ice by
freezing.
Atchison Globe: The greatest evil that
has befallen the farmers this year is the
hog cholera. The ravages of this disease
are not chronicled in official reports, nor
mentioned in the newspapers, but in