The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-12-03

y lslGeaDle Iaeg tila St0eltinellS are conn.,
consider horns as siselesa append
siiss
shipping and stabling cattle. AS 4. .bepis
producing breed, they are unsurpassed.
In London, England, they command two
cents a pound more than other beef. AS
q dairy breed. they excel many Of the /
prominent horned breeds. They give d
fair yield of very rich milk Rural and
StockmaIi. i, .s5 5.%'
Concerning the Range Cattle Indus
!: Il try.
In some portions Of the range country
a mistaken notion has prevailed in
regard toskting cheap southern cattle.
It was argued BY some that if tile price
Of young cattle in the south was depress-
ed the margin to the tlroyer or the pur-s
chaser from the north, who went south
to buy would be increased ia: the amount
Of the depression in the south. Results
have proven this q a%fallacy. The blockad-
ing of the drives the past season and the,
quarantine against Texas cattle from
below tie tliirty-fourth parallel caused a
shrinkage of over $5 per head on all
classes of Texas cattle, but in sympathy
with this decline yalnes have gone off
equally as much all along the line from
Texas to Montana. And this will always
be the rule There is a sympathetic con
nection between values 0f-any article of
traffic which is as. certain and true as
the magnetic needle. Commerce is
argus-eyed, and at once discovers the
means for restoring any temporarily dis
turbed equilibrium in trale or values.
Avery large per cent. Of the cattle on
the northern ranges have been graded
up from Texas COWS. In! 1881 there was
Ia large drive from Oregon and Washing
ton territory, and since that time good
many young cattle and some cows have,
l:been shipped in from Iowa, Minnesota,
| / , nlisses,ri and q few ties. These
grim, cattle from fie aas have not
shown rs ready adaptation to range life
as the western and Texas imports, and
the tendency is rather to- discourage tile
traffic in them. Raised on the pitcllfork,
50 to speak, they know nothing of self
dependence, and when the winter storm
strikes them they naturally look for
mans help, and fail to rustic sfo-s them.
selves. On the. contrary, the western
and southern cattle for generations have
had to make their own provision for wins
ter, and are always found rustling for
something to eat. But the southern cat
tlSare Of light weight, and as increased
weight means increased profits, northern
ranchmen have for years been buying
high grade bulls from the east and grad
ing up their herds. The native cattle to-
day on all the northern ranges are as
good or perhaps little better than half
breeds. Shorthorns and Herefords are
as d rule, the improved Breeds used, and
our three and folir-Year-old steers weigh
from 1,10O to 1900 pounds iii the Chi
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3. =, =. ,Ass : 1. ~, pipn.au.e a,llaal
large receipts, and the qnestion'is being
generally discussed among rancllmen as
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prasont Sfor,m tim ,aads ~ tha MI ~,
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