Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-22
ROUND-UPS.
The Reason that thu Price Of Cattle
Is Low 70 that tho Woods are
Full Of Them.
What Oan be Done with q Field of Alfalfa
Some Fine Steers Matured In
Tarrsnt County.

] knSraHt Souutys
] Captain Burk Burnett is back from bis
trip to Virginia, after an absence OF
about week.
Over 1000 head of Shanghai Pierce's
cattle were handled at Folks stockyards
yesterday, and there now remains of this
great shipment not over twelve or fifteen
carloads.
shipment was made last week
from near Fort Worth OF what is said to
have been the finest lot of steers ever
produced for the market in Texas. These
were thirty-sx head from the ranch of
Henry Walker OF Mansfield and
were sent to market by Messrs.
E. z. Brown, Chicago gentleman,
and j. G.. Richardson Of Fort Worth.
They were strictly corn-fed, weighed, at
Chicago. 1400 pounds in, bunch, and
brought 81 40.
Captain J. c. Richardson, the we'll
known live stock commission man O:
Fort Worth, has just returned from 8
trip to FL Paso, near where, at Davis
Mountain, he is negotiating for the pur-
chase of several hundred head Of steers
from G. T. Newman. These steers, said
the Captain yesterday, are the best he
ever saw in TeXls at this time of year
except strictly cora or cotton seed fed
stock. 1t Is his desire to bring them 10
Fort Worth and feed them up 8
tri1e at this point, but he fears
he will not be sble to obtain
through rate with feeding priSilege,an
to pay local rste On two shipments would
about eat up the profit on the transac-
ton.
An experienced stoCkman who has Just
returned from trip through Western
Texas says the condition Of stock and
range in thst country is better now than
he has ever known it before, though he
mas been in the state many years. The
rains have been go plentiful through
out the country that the grass,
green and fresh, is now high
enough for easy grazing, and the holes
are all filed with water enough to tide
cattle over any ordinary drouth. This
gentleman ssid that enough cattle were
being shipped out to remove fear of the
ranges being over grazed, and there is no
doubt that the stock interests Of the state
present an unusually encouraging aspect.
-.
The Denver Field and Farm says: Many
people are asking for an explanation why
beef cattle continue SO low. We conclude
there is no other reason for it than the
one found in the great problem of sup
ply and demand. Sheep are selling at
high prices simply because sheep are
scarce. Cattle are selling
at low prices simply because the woods |
are full OF them. And yet we will say
the best cattle have never gone low. 1t
Is the scrubs that hayel demoralized the
trade. We suffering mortals have been
compelled to eat more poor beef here in
Colorado in the past five years than We
shall be able to atone for in the next ten
to come. The consumer has been suffer
ing IS well as the producer. Turkey has
been cheaper than beef. 4
There was put on the Fort Worth
market yesterday the first Texas made al
falls, which WAS grown within mile and |
& half of the courthouse at Fort Worth.1
County Commissioner Holloway, upon
whose land the bay was made, said yes
terdey that he considered the gro wing of
this feed the most profitable use to which |
he could possibly put his land, and
that its cultivation throughout the
s ste would prove of the greatest
value to the farmers. "One point about
alfalfa not generally krown," said Mr..
Holloway, sis that hogs will eat it with
the greatest avidity, and fatten on it IS
quickly as on anything else you might use.
And you can raise more bacon off five
acres Of alfalfa than you could pay for
with cotton grown on i've tunes that
amount Of land"