The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-05-07

that should be taken entirely out of the
hands of local authorities and placed in
that Of state and national officials. In
this way only can contagious diseases be
kept from spreading.
The following are the latest cattle
quotations in the Chicago market:
Choice to fancy shipping. $3.50 q 5.85.
Good to choice shipping. :. $500 q 5.45.
Common to good shipping. $3.50 q Sis.
Poor to medium steers. /. . ...s4.5O q 4.s5.
Fair to choice cows. (. :. $3.50 a 4.35.
Poor to choice bulls, . I. 1926 a 400.
-Four trotting horses have been recently
purchased in this country by a gentle
man from Vienna, Austria. and will be
taken home by him for the purpose of
starting stable,of this class Of horses.
A mile track has been established in
that city, and racing will be instituted
there during the coming summer upon
the American PLAN W. L. S. Jour
nal. .,ss: i. ;.5s n: VI. X
And now, to still further dispel the
illusion that Texas fever is only a scare,
gotten up by northwestern cattlemen to
to keep their ranges from being over
stocked, the stockgrowers north Of the
Texas Pacific in Texas have quarantined
against all cattle south OF the road.
This is; liable to lead to serious difficulty
among Texans, but the facto the quaran-
tine goes a long way toward proving
that there is such thing as Texas fever.
In any event, it more firmly establishes
the positions of the many states and
territories which have recently quaran-
tined against Texas cattle. |.fG
Cattle on the range are said to be in
tip-top condition for this season Of the
year, and large calf crop is anticipated.
However it is not to be understood that
they are beef fat, for that day has past.
or that there are not great many that
are quite thin; but what we mean by tip
top condition is that they are in good
living fix and thriving. Calves dropped
now will find their mothers strong, and
the range being good, will supply them
with plenty Of milk and the loss will be
nominal. True, calves dropped out of
season had tough time Of it, but it is
safe to calculate on raising 95 per cent
of those dropped since March 1st is, Of
course too early for calves to come. May
lst would be early enough if cattle men
could regulate this as handily as sheep
growers do. But this being an excep-
tional year the March crop Jared we'll.
And if the branding does not turn out
well, owners will know the reason why
and may conclude that the day of big
calf crops like many other good things
has passed and will return no more until
cattle men learn, like sheep men, to CON
troll the breeding season. Rocky Noun.
tain Husbandman. 3
The secretary of the Interior, according
to instructions Of the Montana associa-
tion, has been earnestly petitioned by the
president and secretary of the associa-
tion, to see that the Montana Indians
are properly cared for. Almost all the
difficulty ever had with the Indians was
due to the fact that the government
promised to provide for them and then,
through Indians agents, almost starved
them, forcing them in many instances to
eat their horses and dogs. In other
words, although the intention Of the
government was good, tho Indians have
experienced perfectly unreliable policy,
being promised things that were never
fulfilled. It is easy then to see how so
many. difficulties have arisen with the
Indians. Smarting under sense of
wrong, they have tried, in their own
way, to right it. We are not over
friendly to the Indians but we are more
an enemy to the policy the government
has adopted toward them and still more
an enemy to the lniserably Intellectual
way the government has of carrying out
its policy. By all means let us have a
change. Anything will be an Improve.
ment over the present system. % a
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