The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-04
OVER THE RANGE.
PERSONAL POINTS AND
NEWSY MUG
GETS.
DAILY ROUNDUP ny THE STATES
MANS TRAIL
MAN.

Those who have cattle now should hold
on to them.
The lambs will be worth saving this
spring every one of them.
The percentage of loss on the range has
been very small this winter.
j. G. Rice, of Tom Green county, re-
Gently sold 5000 sheep, with ranch outfit,
for $4,000.
There is very little trading going on in
cattle circles but just wait Till spring and
you'll see the fur fly.
A liberal policy in the sale and lease of
the state lands would not only do away
with free grass, but it would prove
most potent factor in the development
of Texas.
When it is desired to- have majority
of the brood pullets bred from old birds
and have them near the same age as pos
sible, young cockerals mated with pullets
generally produce greater proportion
of males.
Col. r. G.. Head, of Trinidad Col, a
cattleman of national reputation, was in
the city Tuesday on his way to Marta,
Texas, near which place he has lately be-
COulG llltEtSltu Ill Il anu I6Eu Ol
about 1000 cattle,
Oats and corn in equal parts, ground to-
gether and made into a dough by boiling
water, makes a first-class breakfast for
laying hens. Milk is, of course, better
than water For supper, give them whole
corn warmed in the oven.
The grand jury of Donley county has
found over seventy true bills against cat
tlemen for illegal fencing of state lands
Three of the cases against Charles Good
night, and two against Judge Brown have
case.
Secretary Dory Jones informs us that
south side cattle have drifted badly at the
mouth of Huerfano and along the Arkan-
sas, and, the river being closed, they can
not get water. Owners will do well to
look after them at once.-Review and
Standard
David DeGraff sold this week to j. n.
Holland, of Pueblo, his pasture of 1900
acres, located in this county, ten miles
east of Wigwam, in Chico Basin. The
Improvements were sold with the ranch,
the consideration being $S,500.-Colorado
Springs Gazette.
Think of it! Tuesday, January -, the
receipts of cattle at Chicago were 1896
head, or almost 5000 head more than ever
before received in one day. Ten years
ago this would have been agood run for a
whole week at the largest stock market in
the world -Drovers' journal.
j. B. Sherman, superintendent of the
Chicago stockyards, gives the gains on
two-year-old cattle, in sixty days feeding
The highest was 1876 pounds, tho only pure
shorthorn; the only pure Hereford, no.
the average of the 7, nearly all high grade
shorthorns, was 1887 pounds.
Feed little at time and often, is bet
ter than to throw out more than fowls will
eat at once. Many a case of indigestion
may be traced to heavy feed in the
morning and the next meal taken from
the leavings of breakfast trampled IN the
dirt by all the fowls.-Spirit of the Farm.
Says an authority: For horse which
carries tongue out of mouth. fit to the bit
plate oval, and about three inches long
by two inches wide. 1t is put over the
tongue and as the tongue cannot then be
put over the bit it cannot be put out at
the side and must be kept in its right
place.
There is nothing in the general appear
ance of the wool market unsatisfactory to
the western wool grower, who is econom-
ically managing his business. The condi-
tions are favorable all round, and he is in
no wise dependent on anything else but
the proper conduct of his business in the
year 1886
There is state land worth cents an
acre lease, and state land that is not worth
cents an acre lease. This seems hard
for the land board to understand, but if
the members live long enough and are
not retired from the position that they
have disgraced, they may yet learn that
all land is not alike, and that people who
know beans when the bag is open sell OF
lease land according to its value.
While we in Texas are figuring on ten
acres to a COW, correspondents of the
Prairie Farmer are telling how to keep
twelve COWS a year on ten acres. We
hardly expect to see such thing done in
Texas, but if we thought it would always
require ten acres to a COW, The Stockmar
would be for sale, and the editor on a
hunt for better country. Next week we
shall print one correspondents plan foI
keeping twelve COWS upon ten acres.
A special to the N. o. Times Democrat
from the Indian Territory says: Reports
from the ranges are to the effect that the
cold weather has been particularly severe
on the cattle interests, and in the Chero
kee nation, where the greater part of the
stock range is conferred, the loss is heavy
nearly every stockman loosing a number
of cattle. The Mcclellan cattle compan,
has lost many head of cattle, as have alsC
all the members of the Cherokee Liv'
Stock association.
Texas Stockman: The spring drive il
the question of paramount importance t,
Texas cattlemen, and should take prece
dence of all other questions at Austin
But while this is true, it will be well TO
the stockmen there assembled to lool
ahead to a time when trail will be on
of the question, and the drive, among tn
"reminiscences of the past. That sucl
time is not long time hence, is general.
admitted, and we should begin in time, Il
prepare for its coming.
Lasvegas, (N.M. Stock Grower: North
ern New Mexico is covered with snow
and the unusually cold weather of thu
past eight days, has been rough on rang