The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-10-30
RANCH AND RANGE.

Leesburg. Florida, gives two gallons o
milk daily.
Angora goats. raised in California, are
meeting with ready sale throughout the
range country.
The Marquis de Mores states that il
takes nine days for beef 10 ripen before
it ia in condition to cat.
One Of the latest sehemss is to raise cat.
tic for their furs. crossing Buffalo upon
Angus cows for this purpose.
Sheep are worth only fifteen cents
a head in Fayette county, Alabama, and
hogs are a drug at ten cents head.
Many Dakota farmers this year raised
flax for fuel, ton of fax being consid.
cred more valuable for heating purposes
than ton of soft coal.
1t is estimated that the Chicago market
will absorb this year of the range cattle
product 3o5, 900 head of Texan and go.
600 Northern cattle.
1t is officially stated that the diseased
cattle in the State of Virginia are affected
with Texas fever and not pleuro- pneu.
monia, as was at frs. reported.
The danes OF the most famous horses
in history have been level.headed, sens.
BILE mares. Vicious and untrainsble
mares do not produce prodigies.
Every dairyman should make it a rule
to rear the calves of only the best cows.
The offspring of average or poor COVE
should always be turned off for veal.
The standard measurement for hay is
as follows; PIG cubic feet for hay stacked
for six months, 3i3 cubic feet for hay
stacked thirty days, and 1924 cubic feet
fresh on the wagon.
1t is among the possibilities that Eng.
land will enact tariff legislation against
American cattle and beef. This would
be severe blow to the cattle Interests Of
the country.
The natural life of sheep is shorter than
that Of any other domestic animal. Five
or six years is the limit of practical use.
fitness, though valuable breeding ewes
may be kept one or two years longer by
careful treatment.
In Buenos Ayres, South America,
mares are never worked in harness. but
are kept solely for dairy purposes, and
are treated with kindness and care. This
is carrying the sentiment Of chiyalry to.
ward the gentler sex to an extreme re.
fnement.
The National Live Stock journal in.
sists that it does not pay to keep any
kind Of animal after they have stopped
growing, il being fattened for sale. Nor
does it pay to let them stop growing at
any period before they attained their full
Ex-Governor Routt says: ~ am told
that in the grand roundup of cattle of
the State not dead carcass Of Gallo
way or Polled Angus was found. They
are the hardy brutes for the western
country. I believe a Galloway would
q Buffalo in q long continued
storm. y Pueblo Stockman.
-
The Rev. Emory ]. Haynes preached a
sermon on the subject "Shall Join Fra. |
ternity!" in Boston on Sunday. It was
apropos Of the visit Of the Odd Fellows to
that city, and in it he spoke strong words |
in favor of college secret societies Of the
right sort. II pay debt Of gratitude this
day." he said. "Years ago, when lad,
came from the State OF Vernon. and
went 70 college, where had the conpan-
ionship Of some young men who admitted
me to their secret honors, and I pay honor
to them. They were my friends, and they
rebuked me when l did wrong and re.
joiced with me when did we'll. Then
they cared for me, and bent over me and
saved my life when l was sick. have .
great respect for these secret societies.
owe 81 much to the watchfulness and sym.
pathy Of that society as owe to the college
itself.-N. Y. Sun.
a Boston whiskey dealer bought cheap
coffin, put four-and-seven. eighths- gallon
key of rye whiskey inside, screwed plate
on the lid Of the coffin, on which were en-.
gravcd the name, age and birthplace Of
the alleged corpse, boxed the coffin as
usual and shipped it to town in Maine.
There an undertaken took charge of the
box, and drove ten miles into the country
before the coffin was opened and the liquor
removed.
Slr. j. +. Bonsal, New Bloomfield, Pa,
clerk Of the several courts Of Perry Co.,
Pa, was afflicted with rheumatism for