The Arizona champion. [volume] (Peach Springs, Mohave County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-27
STOCK NOTES.
Condensed News, Items Of Interes
To Stockmen.

. | 10 StOckmen.
Last months shipments of cattl
were the largest in over five years
and in fact about the largest OF
record.
Reports from Colorado and New
; Mexico are to the effect that tn,
ranges in those parts are alread,
bare, and the cattlemen are moving
out as rapidly as;possible
The range country has shor
calf crop to report as result of thu
branding for 1888. The cause ma,
be summed up as short feed scarcity
of bulls and scattered herds.
| Anexchange says it is estimated
that not less than 10000, cattle
will be fed in the Boise valley the
coming winter. The feed will be
red clover and alfalfa mixed.
The Texas Stockman and Farmer
offers as special premiums for the
best pen of five grass beeves at the
San Antonio fair, $50 saddle, and
for the best pen of ten grass NUT
tons, $75 registered Merino ram.
The brood mare Dollie, that
produced the PAGER Fuller, record
2:l3a, died at 9. F. Emery's farm,
near Cleveland, last week She
was by Niagara Chief, but none of
her colts except Fuller ever amount
ed to anything.
The officers of the American
Turf Congress, which comprises all
the principal western racing asso-
Citations, have changed the place of
meeting this fall from New Orleans
to New York City. The date OF
meeting is Nov, IA.
A Ludington (Mich.) paper says
there is a likelihood that the mar
ket for horses to go into the woods
will not be as brisk this autumn as
usual owing TO lighter logging op-
srations. Prices for Percheron
md Clydesdale horses range from
1850 to 5000 span weighing from
$500 to $500.
A butcher in Liverpool England,
was recently summoned before a
magistrate on the charge of selling
aorsehesh for beef. He was fined
SOS, not for selling the horsehesh
but because it was unsound. The
magistrate said that he knew of
n thing to prevent butcher from
selling such meat, provided it were
,ood and sound.
Stockmen who have any facts
they desire to Lag before the sena-
borial investigating committee that
its in st. Louis in November,
should send the names and address
Is of their Witnesses to Senator
Vest Washington, D, c., before
The first of November next. All
The facts are what the people
want.
II. S. Tom, Of Wilson county,
vas in town this week and SAYS
that yearlings at IS are as saints in
his section, because the grass is too
,ood to let it go to waste for want
Fpf stock to eat it. In a recent
shipment to New Orleans some two
year-old steers Of his netted him
'ver SIG per head. "You bet,
iChey must have been Joe Dandies."
Texas Live Stock Journal,
Ell Paso (Tex.) Tribune: Two
,arloads of burros were shipped
last week from Amarillo, Texas, to
Little Rock, Ark. The burro in
lustry is young in the Panhandle,
but it is said to be assuming pro
portions of Importance. There are
many uses in eastern and northern
parts to which the burro can be
put to better advantage than any
Iother ANIMAL and il is to such bur
no raisers are catering.
Las Vegas IN. NJ Stock Grower:
Over a considerable portion of the
grazing districts Of New, Mexico,
the rainfall this year has been much
less than the average, and as
consequence many ranchmen will
enter upon the winter with "short
grass" and q. prospect of poor feed
and limited supply for the CON-
ing winter. For this reason droves
Of cattle from this territory will be
sent to Kansas for the winter.
The live stock parade at the fair
to-day was certainly a credit to the
territory. Almost every popular
breed of, cattle in pure blood, were
represented, while the horses ranged |
from the thorough and standard
bred of this country to the draught |
stock from oil parts of the world. |
The animals were all in fine condi.
ton, and the Arizona progeny of
those brought from the eastern
stables and celebrated stock farms
were equal in every particular to
their siyes.i The eqgable climate |
rpd the unequaled pastures of the |
Salt River valley present every ad-
vantage for the.propogation of fine
live stock, and the showing made at |
.his early day is convincing that
ibis indust y will be. 81 greatest
Importance in future years. Our
people have sta, ted well, and their
efforts are proving successful be-