The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-17
WHOLE NUMBER 75

,
 there are from 100000 to 1 100000
 representing $50,OOO,OOO to $60,- 100000 invested. People not di-
 rectly interested in cattle (and there
 are few of them in Eeastern Mon-
 tana will tell you that these fig
 ures should be multiplied by at least two; others that they are
 largely exaggerated. There are a
 large number of companies whose i capital stock is over $1 100000, and
 at least one where these figures
 should be multiplied by ten. It is
 likewise difficult to ascertain wheth- CT the ranges are sufficiently stock ed or not Cattlemen say they are,
 that if the pasturage is to be pre-
 served, no more cattle should be
 imported, and the breeding of them lessened. Merchants, on the con-
 trary, contradict this, and say that the ranges will support good many
 more cattle than are now on the ranges.
 St. Louis Journal of Agriculture:
 Fashion seems to be omnipOtent in stock breeding as well as in many
 other things done for business or pleasure by the people. And in reference to breeding, as we'll as in the other things, it seems not to be founded on reason and good judg- ment. Of course 1t is all we'll and good for the breeder to grow that kind of stock that will be the most profitable to him, but, like fashion in everything else, a change is liable to take place at any time, and a breeder runs his business strictly on the demands of fashion is likely to ''get left" One of the curious, unreasonable and inexpli- cable dictators of fashion is the exaltation of red in Shorthorn over the other colors. We believe that this high estimate prevails to a greater extent in this country than in the home of the Shorthorns across the ocean. For instance, in the report of sale recently made in London, we find that the average price paid for ten reds of all ages was $181 while fifteen roans brought $254 average; and seven red and white $2S8. Now we admit that the small number sold does not ad- init of a final conclusion as to the opinions of English breeders on the matter of color, but 1t is a strong suggestion that hair and color are made to give way to other points. On the whole it must be conceded that the fancy for red in this coun- try is something not founded on solid merit and must pass away.
 San Angelo Enterprise The fes- tive cowboy has been quite hume rous around the bulyvards this week, but like the baron, lis glory has departed. The heels of his boots are as high as of yore, but when he sits "straddle-legged" on the corner of a monte table now he "blows in" a quarter where former ly he staked note, and though he still damns the sheepman, he no longer rolls his profanity under his tongue like a sweet morsel, but wears the look which indicates but too plainly that the barbed wire fence and the ''man with hoe" have done him up. Farewell, fes- tive cuss, and as you "pull your freight" toward the setting sun, you may find in the land of the Mon- tezumas, long-eared mavericks and dark-eyed senoritas to console you for your enforced repatriation, and may you never be forced to herd sheep, edit newspaper or rob stages, as some of the rest of us have to do to make an honest liv- ing! What though in your palmy days you were trife ''handy with your pop" and had a deep-seated aversion to eating your own beef, you were ever gentle with childr n and treated women with chiyaI- rous courtesy worthy a knight of the middle ages; quickly lured by the song of a siren and an eaSv