The Arizona champion., 1886-06-05
STOCK NOTES.

inspector as MT. Geo. Fisk .---El Paso Live Stock Journal, Who is the gen, tlemanI
 The Texas Pacific is again rushed with cattle business; 200 cars for the Aztec cattle company, and 2 1000 head of young stock cattle for the Indian reservations in Arizona are en route. amongst many other shippers. .-EI Paso Live Stock Journal.
 There are over a million acres of land subject to entry in the wall eys of the Salt and Gila rivers, beginning at the White Mountain Indian reserva- tion, on the Salt rIver, and the june tion of the San Pedro on the Gila, and extending west 10 the Colorado river.
 A trotting horse in Chatham, N. Y., is reputed to be an expert as rat catcher The other day his owner saw a dead rat in the manager, and when he fed his horse again he kept watch and soon saw rat slowly mak- ing his way to the manager. As soon as he began to eat his meal the horse laid back his ears and made dive for the rat, caught him in his teeth, gave hin one pinch and a shake, let him drop and calmly kep; on eating.- Cheyenne Live Stock Journal.
 Don Bugenio Yrisarri has returned from a months visit to Lincoln coun- ty. He states that in dist:ict not twenty miles square not less than 4o,- 900 sheep have died since January I. Lack of rain and short grass crop, with an occasional storm during ;he early lambing season, is responsible for this state of affairs. Here Is an, other plea for progress. Supposing the people of that locality had last fall sold forty thousand sheep and put the money into forty artesian wells, what a magnificent saving would hay, followed, not only for one year, bu. for all the time to come. New Mexi. can.
 The present spring rodeos are de- Ionstrating in striking manner the beneficial results of the law p1sSed by the last legislative assembly requiring every stocGman to provlde a gradsd q bull for every twenty-five cows owned by him. Owing to the provisions ol the law larger number of fine bulls were purchased by Arizona stockmen in 1883 than during any two years previous thereto, and from every sec ton of the territory the unanimous re port comes that the call crop is larger than ever before known. This fact in itself should be suffi cient argument for the rigid enforcement ot the law in question by every live stock asso- citation in the territory. Men too penurious to provide their own bulls, and who prefer to descend to the lev el of petty larcenlsts by taking advan tage of their more liberal and progress sive neighbors in such matters when. ever the opportunity presents itself, are entitled to no consideration at the hands of right thinking community, and the sooner they are eithet weedet out or forced by fine orimpriSonment or 10 comply strictly with the letter ot the law, the better for all concerned. -Hoof and Horn.
 In breeding up stock there is noth- ing more important thln care in the selection of bulls. The anim lls should not only have good reliable pedtgrees but should possess frs,-class indVi- dual characteristics. The blooi royal frequently gives an inferior scion. For that reason 1t IS the practice of some breeders to Casirate a CertLll number of calves, saving for breeding purposes only the superior .anlmlt" In purchasing, cattsemen should deal only with reliable breeders. There Is a class of dealers who make a practice of picking up inferior animals, the culls of herds, and pa'mlng them off on range cattlemen. The way to avoid this IS to deal only with firms 1t established reputation. There is great advantage also in buying year ling bulls. The characteristics in . yearling bull are sufficiently d 'mlnant to enable one to judge of ni, Qaaitie he is accllnated mJrc readily a.,u fully cne year more service can be got out of him than out of q tw '-year-