The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-10
THE GREAT RANGE.
AND DINTEREST.
ING CATTLE AND
HORSE NOTES.
DAILY DRIVES FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STOCK GROWING
COUNTRY.

Exports from New York last week in
6,460 quarters of beef.
Hume Bros. will put 1000 head of north
ern Texas cattle in their pasture this
spring. Tue cattle are now on the trail.--
Kansas Stock journal.
Although the grass crop promises to be
short, cattle will do well here this summer.
They are satter to-day than at this time
last year.-Mobeetie Panhandle.
The quarantine station near Boston has
received 1853 cattle from Europe since
January 1.
A Montana exchange says that the
latest news from the Musselshell states
that the calf crop is large, and most own
ers expect to brand larger number in
proportion to the size of their herds than
were branded last year.
The Northwest Stock journal editorial
ly speaking of the proclamation of the
governor of Montana, published in The
STATESMAN Sunday morning, ,quarantining
against Texas cattle, says it is well to
quarantine against some of the states
mentioned.
Dub Wu6u lOu RCb w l6Ado yOu DlJO Oh
very large sized chew We have ever
been radical ON this matter of splenic
fever because we know it is reality and
its losses to ranehmen along the trail ag-
gregate millions of dollars. The owner
of herd of cattle that by contact with
another herd will impart to them a fatal
disease has no right, legal or moral, to
move them on the trail, along the high
ways or over the public commons, and it
makes no difference whether the disease
impaired is pleuro- pneumonia, ,rinderpest,
or splenic fever. 1t is not material
whether the cattle giving off the disease
are themselves in dying condition, like
those affected with pleuro pneumonia, or
whether they are in robust health like
southern coast cattle are when they give
off splenic fever. Results govern, not
conditions.
While it is established, beyond question,
that splenic fever exists, and that it Is
given off by apparently healthy cattle to
others that have been raised in different
latitude and altitude, it is also as well es-
tablished that cattle driven from below
the seth degree of north latitude purge
themselves of all uncleanliness long be-
fore they could possibly reach the boun-
daries of Montana. Cattle driven all the
way from Texas to Montana will not i'm.
part to the local or native herds of that
territory splenic fever, and any law OIL
proclamation based on that idea will fall
There is no cause for such law, and
!, therefore it can not stand. Montana has
! the right to prohibit the Introduction Of
southern coast cattle-those within the in
fected district-by railway, be
cause it is an established fac
. that the cattle which are thus shipped
) will impart disease. Sanitary laws gov
erning domestic animals are a necessity
, in every state or community, but they
must be based on reason. If there wer'
no Texas cattle going to Montana the is
suance of such document would no
matter. But there are now on the trai
thousands of head of cattle from tina
=: state just as healthy as the proudest Mon
, tana steer that rustles for a living on th'
plains of that great country. If you
+ law or your proclamation under the law
was right, this individual hardship woul'
have to be borne, under the rule of tn
8 greatest good to the greatest number
! But it is not right, and the cattle will b
!, apt to 90 in because the law cannot b
e sustained.
Z This proclamation is certainly mis-
take. 1t should contain provision let
ting in trail cattle and those from mort
q and west of the fever line in Texas, o.
{ this side of which there are many cattle.