The Arizona champion., 1888-07-28
STOCK NOTES.
SELECTED NEWS OF INLERETT TO
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 The grass ip Eastern Montana this year is the best eyer known.
 The number of cattle driven from Texas, Nebraska and other points into Montana this year is estimated at l7,000.
 The Miles City Stock-Growers' Journal claims that there will be more calves branded in Montana this year in proportion to the num- Der of cows on the range than has occurred in any past season.
 During a recent hailstorm op the Powder river in Montana hailstones the size of a baseball fell. Cattle were seriously bruised from the pelt- ing. Summer rains and hailstorms are growing more frequent in Mon tana,
 The shipments of live cattle from Chicago east have steadily decreased for number of years, while the shipments of dressed beef have in creased from S9, ,000 pounds in 1882 to l80,000 tons in 1887. The ship ments of dressed beef are now three times those of live cattle,
 The condition of Southern Colo rado this summer is said to be worse than it was ten years ago, then a great season of drouth. Whole communities, dependent upon small streams and springs of water, are beginning to suffer for want of the usual supply. No winter food for cattle is in sight, and in the mount ains forest fires are aided by the ex. treme dryness.
 The Chicago Times prints a car rier pigeon dispatch from its Texas buffalo hunting expedition. Sue cess has been attained, and fifteen live, full-grown buffalo, with seven calves, the last herd roaming on the large continent, are now on their way to ranch at Garden City, Kas. There they will be crossed with thoroughbred domestic cows. Those in charge of the experiment. say the result will be to revolutionize the breeding of range cattle.
 The largest horse farm in the world lies thirteen miles northeast of Cheyenne, Wyo., where the own CTS of the Post Percheron ranch have invested Sl, l,225,O00 in l20,. 900 acres of land and improve ments and stock thereon. It takes over 200 miles of barb-wire fence to inclose this land, and the ser vices of sixty-fve men are reJuir.d to take care of the 5000 head of horses now on the ranch. Many of the horses are of the best thorough bred stock.
 The tiniest horse in New York is graceful little quadruped name1 Yen Hoe, which recently arrived in this country from China. The little aaimal stands just thirty-five inches high and weighs only seventy pounds. Experts say he is four years old and fully grown. One peculiarity about him Is that he has but four teeth in either jaw; otherwise hs is a per feet miniature of an ordinary Amer ican horse. This horse is about the size of the fossil horse found by Professor Condon in the Columbia river basin some years ago. Ihi; fossil, which Is tha only fossil horse that has been found on the Ameri- can continent, Is now in the museum of the university at Eugene City, Or. However much people may dis agree as to the past cause or causes of the low prices of beef stock and the depression of the cattle market of the country generally, there is and can he but one opinion as to the condition of the range cattle. With n few scattering exceptions the ranges have more grass and water than they have had in years and the cattle are getting so fla, that they are misery to themselves. For several years past the cattlemen have had to complain of a want O! grass and water and of poor prices The abundant rains this season hay, simplitlei the matter very much fo them and they now only have t. kick at the prices, and just at pres ent there can be no reasonable kicl coming even on She outlook for | fair future market.