Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-10
ROUND-UPS.
PART Of the Record of kZel Ames Made
Public by One Who Knows
Him.
some of the Results of Sorghum Feeding
Good Cattle Going from ArIzoHa'
The Denver Convention
The heelfiy is at hand.

The heelfy is at hand.
SO
R. Clark, prominent breeder OF fine
stock at Thorp Springs, is in Fort Worth.
a..
W. E. Halsell, q well known stockman
of Vinits, l. T., is in the city, with view
to business.
Several cattlemen of Karnes, Bee and
Wilson counties have been arrested
charged with harboring train robbers.
-.
Interest seems to oe increasing in the
Denver meeting on the part OF western
cattIemen, and 1t is safe to say that fully
300 cattlemen will go to Denver on the
special train.
The Street stable cars are coming into
general use quite rapidly on northern
roads. The ST. Paul Road has given an
order for $50 of them, and have already
taken q shipment on them from Kansas
ity to Chicago. The Rock Island Road
has also contracted for large number OF
kths cars.
Within the past three months more
beef cattle have been shipped from
Arizona than st any time Ct the same
duration in the history OF the territory
rhe prices have been satisfactory TO the
growers, who are beng congratulated
upon the good condi ion OF the cattle they
are marketing.
-.
John Weymiller OF UValde is making q
new experiment in Landing. He placed
900 ewes in a pasture without any attend
Hnip haffnr than nn6pT
the old system. He thinks, however, that
tfs would be still better If smaller numbers
we're put in the pasture at time. Small
pastures could be made and no stock
placed in them until LANDING time, when
they would be in good condition. Mr..
WeymilIer thinks MS plan will prove
success and if it does it will be & great
saving to sheepmen.
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W, S. Kelly has received returns from
his twenty head of sorghum-fed cattle
which sold in Chicago at 81 IS per leo
averaging 1881 pounds and netting about
S22. MI. Kelly says counting attention
feed, etc, he is out about So per head or
the Experiment. The fact that the cattle
werefnot stall fed and that the colo
weather during the three months he fec
. them was unusually prolonged and con-
, tinueus, combined with the fact that the,
J struck s. very low market, does not max
Mr. Ksl}y'sIventure fairicriterion OF Wha
\ can be done in the way Of feeding sor
= ghnm.-TSLn Angelo Standard.
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q LssA prominent stocKman OF Fort Wort
IFgsve q GAZETTE man something of the re
3 cord of DIR. Azal Ames Of Massachusetts
: who IS the controlling spirit OF the legis
s ative committee Of the Consolidated
Z Cattle Growers Association, and VIII
- claims to represent Montana. He Ia
: lost control Of the small cattle interest
; he once had, and has for sometime pas
: been working on public meas
= ures connected with the liv
= stock industry as an employe
; the cons olidated association. He
= known as sharp, shreWd fellow, an adj
: parlismentarisD, and schemer who gen
8 orally menipulates associations and NEE
- ipgs to further his own personal end
o TtxIs cattlemen who are Interested
@ Montana cattle hold that Ames is lsrgel
8 responsible for the quarantine proclama
s ton issued by the Governor OF Montana
: couple of years ago which FORBADE II
m entrance into that territory Of all Tex:
ell cattle, whether driven all the way
sh trail or shipped by rail. tt
II purpose of this action On the part OF II
nd Montana Territory authorities was
Mt keep all Texas cattle from Montana G
nd the pretext of disease in order to rail
:" the value of stock in that Territory.