The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-20
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

MT IL. ". Oldrk, VI OdllhS, Will move D.
600 head of cattle from Dewitt county to
Presidio county.
Winfield Scott shipped 400 head of
cattle to his New Mexico ranch, via Van
Horay, last week.
Parties on Toyah creek and at Saragosa
are reported to have lost some saddle
horses from loco weed
j. w. Gibson and j. d. Huston turned
over 1000 head of cattle to the Continent
al Cattle company last week.
Joe Nations, of Pecos delivered 5000
head of cattle to the Littleield Cattle
company of New Mexico, last week.
Good young cattle are being advertised
for sale cheap in Texas, this spring. The
time to buy is when people want to SELL
Berry Gatewood of Ennis lately deliv
cred 5000 one and two year old steers to
the Continental Cattle Co., says there is a
good demand for young steers in the Pan
handle.
The continental Cattle company will
start herd north to Montana at once.
This company's herd comprises 2,2O0 head
of very fine graded cattle and is said to be
the finest on the Pecos.
Texas Live Stock Journal
The price of cattle centering on Fort
Worth, and from ranges in three or four
counties each way, can be quoted at 50 for
yearlings, $l4 for twos and $lS for threes,
steors; heifers fraction lower.
The Pecos river is on the rampage:
banks full at this point. II is feared that
Nc Whorter's bridge will be undermined
and carried away. Scores of dead cattle
are floating by.-Pecos Valley News.
Texas Stockman: The shearing sea-
son is in full blast, and the clip is com.
ing off to light and bright to be sacrificed,
and will not be sacrificed if the growers
and their agents do not go off half cock
ed.
The Montana Stock Grower saws the
days of the old time cowboy, who would
do nothing out of the saddle, are about
over; that the cowboy of the present or
future must not be too good to dig post
hole.
Owners of southern Texas herds ON the
move are in advance of their herds trying
to see what trouble, if any, they are likely
to have in getting through. Col r. G.
Head, and Col. III, M. Taylor are interest
ing themselves actively in efforts to secure
the passage of cattle, for which they are
entitled to much credit.
South America and other countries have
for several years been our competitors in
the production of beef and mutton for
foreign markets, but it is only lately that
| frozen meat from those countries has
come to our own shores. The time NAV
come when sheep owners may not be
the only class of stockmen directly in
terested in protection.
There have been many conflicting re-
ports as to the condition of cattle and
ranges in the Pecos valley country. The
fact that the cattlemen in the valley, both
in New Mexico and Texas have postponed
the spring round up on account of the
condition of the cattle being such that
in their opinion they would not stand
working, tells its own story.
What with bearing in the st. Louis and
Chicago markets and quarantining in
Kansas, the Texas cattle trade is having a
hard time. A telegraphic announcement
made to the governor of Kansas yester-
day, to the effect that four hundred head
OF Texas cattle had found their wav into
the state by rail, and had been sent on
foot into the interior, was made the occa-
sion for another pronunciaments of inn
mediate expulsion.
The (Ch1cago) Drover's journal correct
ly apprehends the future in tn. following: !:
Texas cattle and hogs and sheep at mar
ket twelve months in the year, would have
seemed very strange five years ago-yes,
only five years ago. Now Chicago has
them, in very small way, and in a very
few years we shall count upon fat Texas
stock all the year round, as much as we
now reckon upon fat stock from Kansas
and Nebraska every month in the year.
The manufacturers of butterine and
oleomargarine are having tough time of
it. Two hundred millions of pounds of
bogus butter are now annually made in
the United States, and the manufacturers
are clamoring for the right to sell it as
genuine butter. This destroys the bust
ness Ia which are involved the ownership
OF $l5,OOO,O00 worth of COWS and yearly
butter product worth $600,OO0,000. And
yet congress is hesitating about protect-
ing this vast interest. All of the foreign
markets are being blockaded against us.
The live cattle export trade is rather ac-
tive. Prices abroad are rather low, how
ever, and we seem to be sending rather
more cattle and dressed-beef, especially the
latter, than English consuming markets
can take at good prices. The early open
ing of navigation at Montreal does not
help matters any. Canadian exporters lost
a good deal of money last year. however,
and may not care to put their fingers in
the same fire SO freely this year. From
the best authority from abroad it would
seem that American cattle have little to
fear in competition from Canadian stock,
as the latter though admitted to interior
markets, are much poorer in quality.
A recent writer says: s'The branding
Of horses ahd cattle is another indefensi-
BILE cruelty. The burns are some times
very large and so deep that they never
heal. have seen cattle at the stock
yards whose brand-burns, though inflicted
a year and half before we're huge sores,
full of maggots and inflammation. Brand
ing with red-hot iron is fearful cruelty,
and though range cattle must necessarily
be marked in some manner, a substitute
for this inhuman burning is certainly to
be found. The Hide and Leather Associ-
alton has estimated that last years loss
ON hides on account of unnecessary and
over deep branding was $1650,O0O.