The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-08
LIVE STOCK NEWS.
Items of Interest to StOckmen, Gath.
 cred from Reliable Sources.

r. Herring, Of the Dominion Cattl
 company, has been down in Butle
 county, buying corn to feed two thousand steers this winter. Exchange: The produce of on'
 COW with helfer calf at her sid,
 will amount to 126 head in clever
 years, allowing every fourth year tt
 be a non-producing one for eacf female.
 Exchange: The shipment of frog
 en meat from Australia is a success
 only as to mutton. The difficulty
 is to get the meat frozen clear down
 to the bone, which is particularly
 hard to accomplish with beef.
 Globe Stock Journal: The run o1
 cattle from the north is not near SC large at this season of the year as 1t was at this time last season. Two good reasons may be attributed the decline in the market, and the diminished number of beef steers in that section.
 Fort Worth (Tex. Journal: MT. J. N. Porter, of Whitney, Texas, called in to see the Journal Thurs day. Mir. Porter is ranching near Dragoon's Summit, Arizona, and intends shipping about 600 more cattle from Whitney to his ranch in a short time. He reports the grass as being in fine condition in his re- zion
 Colorado Live Stock Record :. We are convinced, after talking with men from all parts of the grain and hay growing country, that Col orado farmers will feed half more steers for the shambles this winter than they did last. We have a dozen inquiries a day for feeders. Men are not quite ready to buy, but they wish to know where when they are ready.
 Dodge City (Kan.) Cowboy A gentleman in Arizona wanted to put lot of COW ponies from that Territory on the Dodge City mar ket, but he was advised not to bring them here. There is no de- mand here now for COW ponies. Good COW ponies, broke, which brought $60 two years ago, have been selling for $3O, and southern Texas breeding ponies have been sold as low as SIP. Only a few tailings are now left in this market. About 5000 head have been sold here this year.
 Las Cruces (N. M. Republican: A few weeks ago the history of a gang of horse thieves, whose head quarters were in small settlement near Fort Selden, was given in the Monday the authori- ties were so fortunate as to capture the ring-leader of the gang, Fran cisco Barela, having proof conclu- sive of the workings of the thieves in his possession; among other things, Barela had common blank book, in which he wrote bills of sale for the stolen stock, and when ever one was required he tore out a leaf. He was committed to jail in default of bail.
 New Mexico Stock Grower: The ' bad man" cowboy racket is play ed out. What is a cowboy that he should be allowed to make a public nuisance of himself? A cowboy is 8 herder of COWS, and as such he is and not for the purpose of making a bravo or assassin of himself. Cattlemen are getting very tired of the few of these fel- lows who still infest the country and give the business and the hon. est cowboys a hard name. It is about time that a few of these hard characters were discharged and not re-employed in the country. The more northern counties of Colfax and Mora, have splendid outfit of men. Not six-shooter or quar- relsome fellow in the lot. It is a duty which stockmen owe them selves to do away with this six shooter business and have it stop right here.