The Arizona champion., 1888-07-21
WEEKLY CHAMPION
STOCK NOTES.
News of interest 10 cattiemen
 Taken From Exchanges.

aused the low price of beef.
 A New York man has just paid ;4o, for a yearling colt; sIoo or the colt and the balance for lis pedig, zee. Hartford Post,
 A Texas idea; Improved cars, ow freights, cattle exchange, s35 beeyes and protection to American hides, are some things hat would give the cattle business ! big boost.
 A blind horse belonging to an Ohio farmer was sold last winter 10 a man 7S miles away. Recently ne turned up at the old stand in good spirits, having been two weeks on the road, but having come along as safely as if he had wo good eyes.
 Three hundred COWS, with suck n calves, the property of William Slaughter, of American Valley, oasssd through St. Johns last Mon. lay, 'en route for Holbrook, from which point the calves are to be iriven back to Slaughter's range, Apache Review.
 J. K. King, of the Peabody herd of Shorthern horn cattle, Mar. hall, Mo, says that one of his eows now running on grass weighs 900 pounds. She is regular breeder and in every respect all tight, an exceptionally good ami nal in an exceedingly good herd of cattle. "
 The merry cowboys are now at !he spring round up. As usual sveryI outfit is supplied with grand upright piano, and in addi. lion John Hill has a quartette ot vocslists to sing lullabys to the msek-eyed boyines of the prairies. There is nothing so soothing to the bullockS as music. c.-Springer Slockman.
 In 1881 Chicago slaughtered upwards of two ard one half mil lion cattle at a net profit of sa.oo per head, thus maksDg total pro- fit of S5,ooo, 900. Arizona and New Mexico furnished 2so, 1000 of these cattle with proftSof s4oo,- 900, and the Chicago cattlemen say that while the Arizona beeves are not large, they make the most saleable meat sold in the western markets, The native grasses of the territory making the meat re- markedly sweet and palatable.- Phenix Gazette.
 The time to sell wool is not when all men sell 1t, but when all men want it. That time is just before the new clip comes in. Old corn, old wheat, old wool, nine teen, years out of twenty, despite all the Yastage of vermin and shrinkage of time, will fetch five 10 ten per cent more than they will when new. It takes courage to hold crops, but courage makes ten per cent, while the faint-heart' ed sells for "what he can get."- Wool Grower.
 One of the boys from the wild ranges was in on the Fourth and got pretty happy in the contem, plation of this glorious country and its Independence anniversary, He jumped up high, cracked his spurs together, said he himself was great American strawberry, could wIpe the prairie with any who even attempted to make a mouth at the Fourth of July, ''because, ' he said, "l'm from Bitter Creek, up where it isn't more than four, teen inches wide, hear me'-Stock Grower. -''.
 A. C. Haliwell says. One or two of the big dressed beef concerns watch the shipments of live cattle like a cat watches Q mouse. When. ever a new man appears n the field they never stop till they get him located. Of course they can have but one object in view, viz: To put dressed beef alonside of his cattle and take his trade. We have always advocated the superiority of the dressed beef system over live cattle shipping, but there ought to be more men in the new industry, as there is no need o allowing that to be a monopoly any more than anything else.
 A HoMEslcK HoRsE.-A genu inc case of equine homesickness il reported from Kimball, Nebraska Some six weeks ago Louis Richard sold lot of horses to J. O. York and among the number was a blacl that had been owned by him half dozen years. No sooner had tn horse changed stables than he be gan 10 grow sick, refused all food snd was thoroughly ill; but whe allowed to go free he scampere' back to his old stable apparentl as we'll as ever. The horse IS no' in the pasture and is gaining l
 flesh, yet he has not regained a
 that he lost. t.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
 An enthusiastic cattleman froi
 Texas, while passing through L;
 Vegas this week, made prediction
 concerning fudge Thurman in tf