The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-07
CATTLE CHATTER.
PERSONAL POINTS AND
NEwSY NUGGETS.
DAILY ROUNDUP By THE STATES
MAN TRAIL MAN.

1
Doc Grounds has purchased the Clay
ton & Cooksey herd located in Pecos
county.
Through Texas cattle at Chicago are
quoted, COWS $3.50 to $3.50, steers $3.50
to $3.50.
The Kentucky Cattle company have
scattered rock salt over their Crosby
county range
Stock cattle may be bought very low at
present and the wonder is that more peo-
pie do not buy them.
Mr.. Merton, of Colorado City, recently
purchased 400 head of dry COWS in Pre-
sidio county, at $15.
Messrs. Childress & Harris have sold
third interest in the horse shoe brand To-
Gated in Tom Greene county.
Col L. II. Mathis, of Rockport, recently
made purchase in Kentucky, of fifty
three head of fine Hereford bulls.
A great many fine bulls, mostly of the
Hereford and Polled Angus breeds, are
being sold in Northwest Texas.
VIM. Votaw is spaying 100 heifers as an
experiment. If satisfied with it will en-
large on the experiment another season.
The Silver Uity Enterprise says that
Oldham g. Roberts have outgeneraled the
stock association in getting their cattle
into New Mexico.
The cattle shipped from Runnels county
by the Odom-Luckett Land and Live Stock
company to the range in Arizona reached
their destination safely.
If a yearling steer weighed over 1900
pounds at the Chicago fat stock show, Ga
fact) cannot Texas two-year-olds be made
to weigh thousand pounds?
The West Texan reports the purchase
from Deweese Bros. and G. ii. Gage, of
several hundred cows, by Captain Buzard's
company, the Zavalla Land and Cattle
company.
; 1t is reported that Mr.. II. Seelingson, of
Galveston, has lately made large impor-
tation from Canada, of thoroughbred
shorthorn and Holstein bulls for his ranch
near Corpus Christi.
The tendency of stockmen generally, to
neglect the female cattle and go their pile
on steers is another thing that should not
be lost sight of in forecasts of the future
/ beef market Stockman.
d. R. FAINT, the big south Texas ranch
ero, says there are cases on record in the
lower country, of cows breeding twice a
year. Colonel Head is right about Texas
!, being "breeding ground"
There should be some refrigerator talk
q at the coming meeting of the Texas Live
I Stock association. Indeed it might mo-
be amiss if something should be done as
well as said.-San Antonio Stockman.
The famous Galloway steer, Jumbo,
weighing $500 pounds will be on exhibit
ton at the Denver International range
convention, and will be slaughtered fol
;. the banquet to be held on that occasion
7 The New Mexico Stock Grower holds
# out the hope that the Denver convention
: will favor trail for Texas cattle, whil
the Denver Live Stock Record thinks tn
., question of trail will not be considered
r. Hon. G. M. Rogers, of Austin, promi
I nent stockman, purchased of Mr.. Hick
/ son, of Fort Worth, twenty head of young
q Herefords, yearings next spring, which
4 he will ship to his ranch near Kyle. H,
y gave $40 apiece for them, and they arr
J. said to be beauties. He also bought on,
v very fine jack.
The northwestern rangemen at the com
e ing Denver convention could not do ;
better thing for themselves than to trea
- fairly Texas cattle interests. We ma,
, take occasion, in our next to tell then
q why such a course would be to their in
4 terest as well as to the interest of Texas
San Antonio Stockman.
y" DAKOTA AND TEXAS.
e The .rrepressible Col. Pat DOMAIN, o.
It Dakota, says of that incipient member o.
y the great American sisterhood:
e Dakota is the sole remaining quarter
section of Paradise in this western world
o 1t is no uncommon thing for a whole Da
5. kota family to sit on one end of q potat,
is while the other is roasting in the fire. w
l. hatch our own wild geese, of such dimen
sions that eastern and southern tenderfee
is are liable to mistake them for winge
t.. Hippopotami on lakes of never freezing
Y rose water and cologne. We wall up TO
W wells the holes from which we pull, witt
steam derricks and 1900 horsepower en-
% gines, our radishes and beets, and max
% COW sheds and circus tents of our turnil
rinds. We put rockers under empty PEI
If pods and use them for cradles.
Whereupon the "poet lariat" of tn
/ Stockman fires back at Col. Pat. as fol
lows
& whole "watered section of heaven
And don't you forget the fact please,
Is Texas the queen of the southwest,
With its sunshine and lovely Gulf breeze.
II II tenderfoot fresh from Dakota
\ In Texas should e'er cast his lot,
~ Sam Jones could never convince him
That there is much better spot.
We raise goats that look like white rabbits,
And with fleece of the purest silk
They sell for five hundred dollars,
And give forty gallons OF milk.
y Oar cattle have horns so tremendous
" That they reach from Santone to IT. Worth,
And we raise EN- mighty sight faster,
;, Than they freeze 'em TO death in the north
Then there is that grass we call johnson,
The crop? Well, most hate TO say,
But there's not room enough in Dokota,
TO stack tenth part of the hay.
Our babies are too big for cradles,
When to the first squat they give vent;
And the way they do come, well no matter,
We count safe on hundred per cent.
We can discount Dakota on "taters"
j. And they grow not few in a hill:
Our beats are Of mammoth proportions,
And all oar fat Offices fill.
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