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

Live Stock Journal. Who Is the gen. teman?
 The Texas Pacific is again rushed with cattle business; POO cars for the Aztec cattle company, and ? 1000 heaC of young stock cattle for the Indian reservations in Arizona are en route, amongst many other shippers. s.-El 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 Wbite Mountain Indian reserva- tion, on the Salt river, and the june tion of the San Pedro on the Glla, 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 a 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 him one pinch and a shake, let him drop and calmly kept on eating, - Cheyenne Live Stock Journal.
 Don Eugenio Yrisarri has returned from months visit to Lincoln coun- Il ty. He states that in district not twenty miles square not less than 40, = 900 sheep have died since January I. Lack of rain and short grass crop, with an occasional storm during the 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 magnificent saving would havt followed, not only for one year, bu; for all the time to come.-New Mexi- can.
 The present spring rode0s are de- monstrating in striking manner the beneficial results of the law p'sSed by the last legislative assembly requiring every stockman to provide graded bull for every twenty-five cows owned by him. Owing to the provisions o' the law larger number of fine bullS were purchased by Arizona stockmen in 1885 than during any two years previous thereto, and from every sec ton of the territory the unanimous re port comes that the cat crop is larger than ever before known. This fact in itself should be sufh :ient argument for the rigid enforcement Of 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 larcenists by taking advan- tage of their more liberal and progreS- 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 either weedei out or forced by fne orimpriSonment to comply strictly with the letter of the law, the better for all concerned, -Hoof and Horn.
 In breeding up stock there is noth ing more importdn. thta care in the selection of bulls. The animals Shoull not only have good reliable pedigrees but should possess firat-claSs ndlvl- dual characteristics. The blood royal frequently gives an inferior scion For that reason 1t Is the practice oi some breeuerS to Cas'rate Cer,u number ot calves, saving for bree ding purposes only the superior animals In purchasing, catliemeu should det only with reliable breeders. There Is a class of dealers who make aprdcuCt of picking up inferior animals, the culls of herds, and pamlns them of on range cattlemen. Tne way tC avoid this IS to deal only with firms pI established reputation. There IS great advantage also in buying year ling buds. The characteristics in
 yeArling bull are sufficiently d 'mlnan to enable oue to jad se of nj, qlaj'tic he is scchmateI more readily d., fully one year more service can b got out of him than out of tw )-year old. These are not the only advan tages which the purchase of yetring give. The buyers of yearlings really get the pick of the herds, while tn