Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14
ROUND-UPS.
Items of Interest to Stockmen Regard
ing the Live Stock Industry.
Sales of Cattle in Different. Parts of the State
First Creamery-Dehorning Stock Cat
tle-COndition Of the Range.

tle-Condition or the Range.
Forty carloads of cattle were shipped
from Abilene last week, all TO Chicago
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Austin, Lampasas and Colorado are
neck and neck in the race for the first
creamery in Texas.
Will Hittson of West Texas, is prepar-
ing to ship lot of cattle from Abilene.
He has ordered thirty cars.
About $40 50@1l 90 for long two-year-
old steers is the price quoted at San An
tonic now, with few Offering at that.
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J. NJ. Brownson has sold to a Mr..
Skidmore $500 head of stock cattle off the
Mathis pasture, near Louise, which the
purchaser has driven to San Patricio
seeaaffy to be wintered.
H. W. Cresswell last week purchased
$50 head of three-year-ol from the
Cresswen Land and Cattle Company
They were branded at the stock pens at
Canadian, and were sent on to- the Day
ranch in the Indian Territory.
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The Powers estate of Colorado, Judge
Moore manager, have turned 5000 head
of cattle on Robert Moody's Panhandle
range. One thousand head were turned
loose three miles up Red Deer, 1000 ten
miles up the Canadian, and 1000 head
on Elk creek. They are branded box V.
A good deal of stock shipping has been
done from Colorado City during the past
week, the movement including beeves for
Chicago, steers for the Nation, feeders
for East Texas and horses for the East
ern states; nor does there appear any
sign of cessation of shipments, the rail-
road company now having orders for
hundreds of stock cars for that point.
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uro-pneumonia has broken out in the
vicinity of Munro, n. Y. When intelli-
gence of the outbreak was first bruited in
the neighborhood the local health officer
became so illustrated he did not know
whether to permit the meat of the ami
mails killed to be put on the market for
beef or not, and telegraphed to the state
health department for instructions. OF
course a negative was the reply.
If the weather continues through the
winter as it has set III the range stock Ing
terests of this country will suffer gEfasf4y
Stock are not rs fat as usual ut this sea-
son of the year and the rains which have
fallen the past two weeks will greatly in
jure the grass as well as draw the stock.
Those who have plenty of feed will find
good use for it, but those who have
neither feed nor money to buy with will
lose heavily - Lampasas Leader.
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John Scheve, one of the big cattlemen
of the Beatrice, Neb. country, has be-
gun the work of dehorning some 500 head
of stock cattle. After studying the ques-
ton over for Il long time, the gentleman
came to the conclusion that dehOrning is
a charitable act towards cattle, inasmuch
as it will effectually obviate lighting and
the occasional killing of il weak animal
by the horns of stronger one. The out
come of Mr.. Scheve's experiment is be-
ing observed with interest by the cattle
men of the surrounding country, who
will initiate his example il it prove a sue
cesSful venture.
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A fellow named Albert BrizeEdine was
before Kansas City recorder recently
charged with cruelty to animals, and in
the course of his trial it was elected that
Brizendine and others had cOncocted Il
diabolical scheme by which to make
horse trading profitable. When
someone undertook to sell them
horse that had always been noted
for his gentleness BriZendine or one of
his cOnfederates put some substance upon
his back that ate through the skin and
caused the poor brute to jump and kick
and bite and act in frenzied manner.
The usual result of the application of the
acid was that the owner, thinking it had
become insane, would dispose of it for
half price or less.
The age of sheep may be known by ex-
aiming the front teeth. They are eight
in number, and appear during the first
year; all are small i'll size. In the second
year the two middle ones fail out, and
two new ones take their places, which are
easily Distinguished by being of a larger
size. In the third year two other small
ones drop out, one from each side, and
are replaced by two larger ones, SO that
there are now four large ones in the mid
die and four pointed ones on the sides.
In the fourth year the large ones
are six in number, and only
two small ones remain, ONE at
each end of the ranges. In the fifth year
the remaining small ones are lostand all
the front teeth are large. In the sixth
year all begin to be worn and Tn the
seventh, sometimes sooner, some fal out
1t win be seen by the above that thefefis
no difficulty in telling the age of a sheep j
at least up to the seventh year. W.
NJ. B. Pulliam of San Angelo ,5xasd5eif;
Wednesday last 500 three and folk Year
old steers to r. A. Riddles, 9feeder of
Alvarado, Texas, for S23 per head.
They are to be delivered on the ears by
the 18th of this month. Nub bought
them a month ago for $40, so will clear
the nice little sum of $4,000 ON his specu-
lation. Twenty-three dollars for range
steers in moderate fix is about the best
figure they have broght in four years