The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-13
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

There are now 175 patents on file a
Washington for making artificial butter
There may be money in the bogus com
pounds.
We note good deal in the paper
about combining against Chicago dressed
beef" The way to do it is to dress bee
at any other points throughout the conn
try.
Home markets for home cattle, SHOULD
be the motto of Texas stock-raisers. Far
away Australia slaughters her cattle, anC
ships the dressed meat to England. L
Texas less enterprising.
THE farmer sells his corn for 80 cent?
per bushel the distiller manufactures i
into II quarts of whiskey, which at Il
cents drink, costs the consumer abou
$4,000" The Texas Farmer says so, anC
Shaw ought to know.
The Apaches are loose again, and leave
murder and outrage in their wake. The
people of the frontier could settle the In
dian question. Why wait longer on the
government? o, for one month of JACK
Hays or Ben McCulloch.
As still as it has been kept, large mum
Der of cattle have been sold in North Tex
as, and it would be reasonable to expect
that the sellers are, or will be on the mar.
ket for southern Texas cattle with which
to stock up. This fact may account for
the late move to keep through trail cattle
out of the Panhandle.
There is food for practical thought in
the following, from The Texas Stock
man:
1t seems too bad that some good fat
grass cattle were not sent to open the
season. In large measure the first cat
tie that come set the fashion, and if they
sell very low, the next that come, even if
much better, are not likely to sell as well
as if the first cattle had not struck such a
low key at the opening of the season.
Col. Sid. Cunningham, Texas agent of
the Bureau of Animal Industry, is going
to know for himself:
II am going down." said the colonel,
"tO live in the pastures. | shall sleep with
the southwestern steer if he will let me.
intend to look at him behind, before and
all around If he has got in him any Sc
cret death, which he carries north and let's
out on the instalmentplan, want to find
it out, and what do find out 1 will let the
government know.
Regarding the cattle trail bill and its
feasibility. the assistant secretary of the
Interior, Hon. Henry l.. Muldrow, says:
believe that some legislation for the
purpose contemplated is greatly needed,
and the proposed route is as unobiecton-
able as any that could be established.
Where there are so many mouths to feed
and so much poverty in many parts of
the country demanding food at the cheap
est rates that can be obtained, am of
the opinion that these considerations
should attract the attention of congress.
Tho bill under consideration is a measure
calculated not only to facilitate commerce
in the interests of the people of Texas,
but also as helping to give the people of
all parts of the country food at moderate
prices. believe the bill should be mass
ed.
Southwestern Live Stock Journal
Several thosand corn-fed Texas cattle
have lately been marketed. They have
sold at$4.30M5.10 for 800 to 115O-lb steers
and $2.4502.55 for bulls. Texas hogs
have also been received in large numbers
and have sold all the way from $3.50 up
to $3.50, mainly at $4@4.25. In fact Tex
as hogs have sold right along with Illinois
and Iowa hogs. This is quite contrast
with the way they sold five years ago.
1t is an old saw that "the hair of the dog
Is good for the bite" but modern science
is about to establish that the hair is not
only cure but preventive. Inocula-
lion against smallpox has long been held
A preventive of the disease; veterinary |
surgeons are following up the clue, and |
Ire now about to demonstrate that the |
same ante treatment is also effective |
against the spread of pleuro- pneumonia
lmong cattle. The day seems to be close
1t hand when the neighborhood veterina-
ian will be as much necessity as the
amily physician.
The Northwestern Live Stock Journal
S dead opposed to the raising of the quar-
milne against the east by the governor
If Colorado This is what it has to say:
The action of Governor Eaton in rails
ng the quarantine against the east will
ost Colorado million dollars during the
present season in the loss of trade even
hould she escape having her herds in
ected Gentlemen, can you afford this?
With your quarantine abandoned not a
oof of Colorado cattle will be permitted |
o leave the state. Had you not better re-
cind your action?