Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-16
R0UND.UPs.
The Methods of Kentucky Feeders Com
pared With Those in Vogue in Texas.
The Find fHorses in Demand-Cat.le Taken
from Colorado-Sale by the Carter
Cattle Company.


RADIO this season ,!aHd mat The shipments
will be larger than have ever beer made
before in Z single year. Thirty thousand
of these cattle, ard by far the largest and
best vii! come fromsthe western part of
the state, beyond the Continental divide.
The Colorado Cattle Growers Associa-
ton has been considering the adoption of
measures to prevent the drifting OF cattle
from northern ranges into the pastures5f
the Arkansas Valley, bat if steps will be
taken or not has not yet trans
pired. One thing is. certain, .1ss
cattlemen of the Valley DECLARE ssSek
will die if not kept on homie ranges or
fed
A couple Of gentlemen from Southern
Arizona, having with them Il number of
horses, stopped in Hansford last Wednes-
day. They reported overland travelling
very difficult on account of, the. scarcity
of feed and water They said that Hans
ford was the first place they had struck
on the trip where there was plenty of
grass, and that cattle are being driven
out of Arizona and New Mexico by the
thousands, as there is not feed enough
there to winter them.
A scheme is mentioned in colorado
which looks to the adoption of 81 method
of cattle selling that comnends itself to
cattlemen of this state. 1t is to have the
State Association of Cattiemen appoint
agents to 20 into the feeding sections,
hunt up purchasers for steers, and bring
about the sales in that way, instead of
having the raiser send his product to the
market, TO be probably shipped back to
the feeders ranch. A plan somewhat
similar worked this year in Colorado
proved entirely satisfactory and profits
able. ~
The Cartier Cattle Company, whi9hffas
been operating in Wyoming and Montana,
lately sold all their cattle interest in None
tana for the handsome price of S215 .glp,
and hereafter will operate in Wyoming.
Extensive ranges, with Il splenid ranch
near Fort Bridger, will be the future
homes of their herds. This is one of the
most successful cattle Companies in the
West, being theTesult of the labors of the
late Judge Cartier, who organized and
carried on the company till his death since
which its affairs haze been conducted by
the company owned chiefly by the Cart
ter family.
Comments on the horse market at st !.
Louis for last week says what is wanted
now is good hlocky, sound, well broke
horses for general business both here and
in the east, there being several buyers on
the market the last of the week that could
not get near as many of that kind as
they waIfed. As usual good work
teams, and carriage teams, and single
drivers are in good demand for any
reasonable number. The prices for the
average work horses are about the same
as the last month, but good, stylish stock
is from So to $40 better and active. There
are buyers here from the City of Mexico
wanting stylish, well matched teams.
Our traders should cultivate that market,
as il is likely to be Il good one now that n
much shorter and cheaper route is open
TO the city.
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An account of a battle to the death be-
tween horse and a huge rattleSnake in
Blount county, Ala, is related to the
Birmingham Age, by Hiram Blake, who
resides in the vicinity of the encounter.
The horse belonged to one of Mr.. Blake s
neighDorS, and was loose in Sthe pasture
through which ran a small stream of wa
ter. Along the banks of this stream
was dense undergrowtho small bushes,
intelspersed with patches OF rank grass.
The horse was feeding on the grass, and
getting near thick clump of bushes was
struck about the nose by an immense
rattiesnalIe. The horse threw his head
up ana wheeled suddenly around. The
fangs Of the snake were so firmly imDed-
ded in the animals flesh that several
vigorous shakes were required to throw
it off. The snake fell i'll an open space
and the horse. instead of running away,
plunged at the reptile with its fore feet.
Failing to strike the snake the first time :
the horse was again severely bitten on the
leg. Another plunge or two, and finally
the irOn-shOd hOOfs crushed the head of
the snake, after the horse had been bit
ten third time. The horse died i'll Il
few hours from the effects of the bites.
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Mr.. Charlton Alexander of Paris, de-
livered last week ga cattle to Moses
Kahn, agent for NJ. Goldsmith, exporter
of New York !. which averaged 1868
pounds. He received cents per pound
for IA, and > l., for 100 of them, and
they aggregated S54 900. The largest of
them will be exported to Glasgow Scot
land, and the balance to London. These
cattle were all beautiful reds and roans -
and were as smooth as show cattle-not Il
broken horned or defective steer in the
entire bunch They were said to have
been the prettiest cattle that ever left the
county Il Georgetown (Ky.) Times.
AT time like the present when cattle
men of Texas are departing from the old
loose range method of sending cattle
direct to market with the Scant fat that
could he picked up on the range, and are
entering upon the business of fattenin%
steers for beef, il behOoveS those inter
ested to compare the profits on well
fattened good animals aud careleSsly
fattened scrub bruteS. Such steer as
the ordinary North Texas feeder is put
ting up this winter will probably in the
spring weigh 200 pounds and will be worth
8 cents per pound-S3G for the steer. The
animals spoken of above brought
nearly 500 each, average. 1t is not
probable the Kentucky fed steer is given
more expensive diet than those put up in
Texas, and il is certain the climate of
Texas is a great deal better for FEEDING
stock in the winter than that of Ken
lucky Then tine secret of the great sue
cess of the Kentucky cattle-feeder must
be in his selection of stock upon which to
expend his feed. The system of the
Kentuckian could undoubtedly be copied
in Texas to advantage, and there is every
b,t -, Of file tn will