Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21

I, las been estimated that l75 600 is not
over the number Of cattle thai viii b. fed
or roughed through the coming wiatar ID
Tex,s. Seventy thousand would have
covered them last winter. Tbs fact is
every stockmsn WHO has q bit az LAND
wherein he csn pl.ce bunch OF cattle
and feed them conveniently is doing it
now or hss already done Ii; and greas
many Of the Old timers, those With Wacm
the methods Of the range we're the ouly
methods Of Carrying on the
stockraisipg business, and who had al
ways Possessed 8 c0a,emp. for snything
lookir e to p,cyidicg for their cattle eX
cep. ns they might rustic their fodder, sre
becoming converts d 10 the idea that pre-
paratiops fer wlGtsr feeding IRE profit
sbIe. Mkt year there will not be ra5 CT
In T,x.s .cNcalg upon which the cult:v4-
ten Of fodder to $ greater or less extent
will bs s.tenpled; aud II tncse
experiments prove successful, Us
few doubt they will, i. Will
not be long before every range snimAl In
the sis'e will be Beyond the uncer!ain;ifs
Of lste faii gsins sud sarly spring graafPF.
When hat time comes the owes. maiket
quotations Will rot be known, 10 repre-
T. H. Jones, one OF the Weslth!est
cst.leDen OF Wil5srger county, came in
ou the D5nver route last evening On his
H.2 to the STATE fair. The only trading
in mig neighborhood, he reported, wss In
steers, snd even :nst ia very ligh', for
mos: Ct the steers In all that
country have gone into the hands
Of these who Will carry them
through the winter. Although 10
former years tnsrs hss never been
. single AMIN 81 fed through the winter in
Wil5srger county, Mr.. Jones estimates
ttet this winter there will be in the lmme
diste vicinity Of that CO uaty not less than
5000 or 5000 fistened or, at least, rough
fed this year. This stste Ct efsi:s Is in
duced by the large crops thss have been
msde this fall. Wheat has made twenty
four bushels per acre, snd cats
eighty bushels OF Mr.. Jones'
land, and the farmers THERE
abcuss have all INSIDE big crops OF sor-
ghum and other fodder, so that they are
prepared to care for many thousxni head
If cattle. Wilbarger coaaty is fsst set
ting up, aud land that las. spring WAS 8
burden at SIS ser acre, ci1no. now be
had 81 SAC.
We believe that buyers are justifed in
paying little more for ohoice feeders
than year age, for Two reasons: First,
the beeves ms1e from them Va are
speaking Of good cattle only must bring
decidedly better prices than have ruled
for long time prior to the last few
months Second, feed ia so abundant
and cheap that .t cannot be marketed In
apy WAY for az adsq 1ste Confederation
except In the form Ct fst stock. Feeders
st current quotetioDs, oush', II goot, be
worth the money. Nov tnsG the Texas
fever season Is eluots ove-, farmers can
soon invest with slfesg; bu. il We were
buying should be very conservative IN the
matter Of price National Siockmsn.
-.
The las. number OF sae Breeders CT.
zette says IN its bull notes: Among the
curlcsitiss Of the ysrds the past week was
Lee Bling, veritable Chinese cowboy.
He was In With trsin OF cattle from the
Alta Land and Cattle Company's range in
Colorado"
Thst vsrit.ble Chinese cowboy iB
curiosity indeed seems to be disputed by
no one; but the curious want to know II
the Celestial puncher wss not putting up