The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-24

weekly to eastern points alone,
 while the shipments to California will not be much smaller. The
 greater portion of the cattle de-
 signed for eastern markets will, of
 course be marketed in Kansas City,
 although the reported establish
 ment of stock yards at Denver has
 created a disposition among ship
 pers to try their luck in that mar
 ket if they should receive eneour-
 agement to do so.
 Wilcox Stockman: Mir. J. D.
 Kinnear. one of our most progress
 sive stockmen, whose range is in
 the Milestone Mountains, writes
 June 9th: 1 bought pedigree Here
 ford bull a month. since for $500,
 and two yearling hei:ers of the
 same breed. So you see am not
 going to be left on the Herefords.
 I selected several of my best COWS
 that have young calves, and keep
 the calves in a corral, so the COWS
 come up every night. I then put
 my Hereford bull with them, and
 that way I get full use of him.
 mention this mode of corraling the calves to get the use of a bull be- cause it may be new, but simple, idea to many on an open range. Of course 1t is necessary to keep other bulls away from the vicinity. If the bull runs on the open range there is no way of selecting the best COWS to breed to him.
 Rocky Mountain Husbandman The range riders of the Shonkin roundup estimate that the district lost over 5000 cattle during the months of April and May from miring. The cattle were poor and when they got into the boggy places were not able to get out. The ex- treme poverty of the cattle on this range is due to large portion of the country being burned over last fall, and to the turning loose of 10000 Oregon cattle in the already we'll stocked district. Owing to this we may expect a comparatively small output of beef from the Shon- kin country this season. This is, we believe, the first time we have heard of loss from too much stock on a range. but it will become a fa- miliar story in the near future, and we miss it if 1t does not become the general cry from every district, and we may expect to hear of losses multiplying every year. Poor cat tie on the Shonkin means poor cat tie all over our range region in a few years, and consequently heavy losses. The wise grower seeing the of affairs, should lose no time ill hedging himself about so as to be safe when the era of dis tress shall arrive.
 St. Louis Republican: They say that quite a number of Americans and Europeans have bought Mexi- can lands and placed cattle on them. Among such purchases they men, ton Clay Mann, of Colorado City, who has bought 225,0O0 acres in Canon Degollado, Chihuahua, on which he has placed 5000 head of cattle, and the Highland Mexican Land and Live Stock Company,u limited, backed by Scotch capital, having purchased 480,0O0 acres, located partly in Chihuahua and partly in Durango, which they have stocked with 5000 head of cattle. The company is sinking wells with great success. Schneider & Tackee say that the government of Mexico las discovered that the range in he United States is about all taken md that American eattlemen and settlers must shortly have moro 'oom, and the Mexican congress las passed a colonization law, which it is believed will be the means of bringing large numbers ,f Americans into the country. For period of ten years after their new corners are exempt d from taxes except municipal. rom military service, from interior md importation duties upon sup. )lieS and upon aCriculturaI imnIa.