The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-05-28

Word may also be sent to the Cow Boy
office. !. III 4 .s
&$ 1t is said that America last year
furnished about zone-third Of, all the
cattle and less than one-thirtieth Of
the sheep imported by Great Britain.
In. W. Live Stock Journal.
z Our Aurora correspo is. informed
that millet is a heavy producer. Just
how much could be produced would
depend, of course, upon the character of
the soil. It makes a superior fodder for
cattle if cut before it is ripe. The ground
should be plowed the ordinary depth for
this crop. Sow from sixteen to twenty
quarts to the acre. Sow the last of May.
fam. Stoekman.
The following are the latest cattle
quotations in the Chicago market:
Extra prime beeves. !. $5.75 q $50.
Choice to fancy shipping. $3.50 q $40
Good to choice shipping, $5.15 @ $50
Common to good shipping. $3.50 q 5.25.
Poor to medium steers, .-..$4.65 @.5JO0
Far to choice cows. ]. !. $3.50 @ .4.s5.
Inferior to medium cows. ,$2.5O@3.40.
Poor to choice bulls. {. $500 q 4.25.
stockers, $50. to 800. lbs, =. -$S.50@4s0.
Feeders, S75 to 1,150 lbs, =. .$4.45@485.
Milch cows,P head, =: .$25.0O@60.OO.
Good horses are bringing better prices
in all parts Of the country than they
have commanded since the war, and poor:
horses erenever so unsa1able as com
pared with the best as they are to-day.
A farmer who breeds a good mare to a,
good horse will have;a sure and profita-
BILE market for his colt. There can be
no profit in breeding to common stock.
Select the best stations, those that are
surest, and having size, form and action.
It will cost little more for the service,
but it will pay to breed to the best.-[R.
NJ. Husbandman. + :sss :sss..z 3s,.ssggs.,.. 4
The Continental and =Hash Knife cat
tie companies have recently made an
important sale of 1000 head of stock
cattle at $3.50 around to the Aztec Land
s. cattle Co. This purchase includes all
stock cattle belonging to these compa-
nies below the New Mexico line on Pecos
river excluding beeves and twos. The
Aztec company is composed of heavy
New York capitalists and is the largest
in the southwest. Their, investment
including one million asres of rail-
road land on the Atlantic and Pacific
road in Apache county, Arizona
already aggregates over s1.50O.O00 in
land and cattle. The cattle purchased
are of a high grade and make an excel
lent foundation for such largo outfit.
The St Paul Globe says, mo cattle
have been quarantined on the Montana
border. The Frye cattle were taken off
the cars by their owner to be branded
and grazed before being taken on their
range near Billings. 1t is to be hoped
that the Globe is not5so much of "ten-
derfoot" as it is trying to make itself out
to be. The fact is well known that these
cattle were turned loose on the prairie at
Sentinel Butte, Mont, where there are no
yards, mnch less branding chute, and
that the owner had neither horses or
men at hand to hold the cattle after they
were unloaded from tile cars. It might
be well for the Globe man to 'sge vest
and try to learn a little about handling
cattle before attempting to gloss over
some body's scullduggery.s s,
The adjutant-generM Of Texas, is in
receipt Of information that 5000 heed
of cattle, purchased in south Texas by
Abner, Taylor s. Co., and now enroute to
their Daltam county ranch, have been
stopped at Harold, Wichita county, by
the north Texas cattlemen and forbidden
to proceed further. Those having the
cattle in charge applied to a company Of
rangers, located near Harold for protec-
ton, alleging that armed men would
resist their passage through the country
The rangers telegraphed to the adjutant.
general for instructions to-day, and were
ordered to respond promptly to any cal
made upon them BY the civil authorities
to whom the men in charge Of the cattle
were referred for aid and assistance, I
4 they refused or failed, the government
4 will invoke the military Of the state
Bloodshed and trouble is anticipated
when the drive is attempted. IN. N
Stock Grower. rs
4 THE NEW TRAIL n
The question of 8 public trail through
the Texas Panhandle which has beer
agitating the minds of the ran nchmen TO
some time. has been solved to the salts
1 faetion Of southern cattlsmen, il not Il