Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-04
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Live sock News

The Concho Cattle Compa1 ls fencing
in 20O,o acre pasture.
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T. W. Roberts was down fromiCap.ain
Burnett's ranch yesterday.
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There are about %, 900 hesd of she ep
in the uncrgGnized county Of Schleicher.
S. Webb, ore OF the biggest csttlemen
Of West Tex.s, WAS in Fort Worth yestsr-
day.
It sppesrs the SsnJe Fe hiss not fur
nished sufficient eccomm odstions at San
Angelo for tie shipment CT stock.
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There have been 200 csrs OF cattle
shipped from Amarillo this week. This
is sbou: the largest shipment ever made
from any point n the Panhandle.
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Csptsin Burk Burne.r yesterday shipped
TO his ranch three car loads OF searlipg
steere, which lie had purchased from Z
NJ. D;ggett. He will hol1 them on his
ranch.
a thriving business is being dore in
Southwest Texas IN the sale Of flne rams
The sheepmsn have gone wild ever some
recent importstions, and are ouSiug them
up With an avidi!y thst shows they are
anxious I improve their hocks aDd have
only been awaiting the opportunity.
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a. S. Nicholson bought yesterday 1900
and year-old steers of Royal Ferris Of
Dailse. The cattle are in the lows
past4fe in Hockey county snd were
Dought for Clark Pun, WHO propose to
winter them In their pastare in Clay and
sarcher counties.
The meeting OF sGockmen and butchers
a. S.. Louis on November 90 is going to
be the isrgest thing Of the End ever held
il the Uaited States, says oGe On the
inside: a1d arrangements are being made
st this esrly day for the securing OF hotel
accommodation by some VINO are gciag
to attend.
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"Feeders in Norm Texss do not care to
buy West Texas stock for their pug
poses," said a dealer yesterday. "The
western cattle are altogether too fr;sky to
carry much flesh, and 10 feed them good
grain is like throwing it into a well, for
they run 1t of as fast a. they eat it.
There are instances where feeders have
stock held over from last yesE that could
not be iatIened."
A striking feature of ell the weekly
papers Of Texas now 10 Che advertise
lnents for feed for stock. Ia all parts Of
the state people are preparing to tsBe care
of their cattle through the coming winter,
g most significant cnange in the condition
Of things since ore year ago. AS COM
munitiss seldom move backward when
they move forward $50 to speak,, 1t can
De anticipated that Gext yesr there will
be q corresponding Increase in the num-
Der OF feeders.
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Screw worms are said to be more yiru-
lent than usual in Texas this year, owing
to there having been more rain than il
Ordinary years They thrive in damp, WEI
seasons. Tney are & extremely danger
Gus pest, attacking animals Wherever the
less. blotch Of blood appears upon the
hide, whether there ID 81 sbrasure of the
skin OF not. II they secure foothold on
the body OF sn snimal they will have L
istal sfsct within week unless prompt
~ checked: or, # they attack limb the
limo will be destroyed In few days,
CnlorCform is given as the cure.
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A wide-awske Fort Worth stockman
said yesterday that the attitude Of the
United ates government toward the
leasing OF the Cherokee strip was not in
accordance with the desires of Texas
s!Cckmen, who have for years past II sde
the strip an Cutlat for their surplus steers,
and WHO will be seriously affected II the
country is closed to them for that pur-
pose. He said that he did not thirk
the matter had been placed in it's true
light before the Washington authorities;
and that when i. was properly explained
that the country would DE o waste II It
were not leased TO the association; that
the glass which had bsen put to good
use in fatteniDg cattle would be left TO
rot or be consumed by fl:e; and thai
unbiased the Cherokees derived
40 benefit from It, the Or
der prohibiting its lease would
be revoked. The speaker thought thst If
the association would attend the meeting
of stockmen snd butchers st S.. Louis
they could secure on expression from that
body that would be of great service to
them in the obtaining OF what they want
The Hon. George 5 Williamson OF San
Antonio, the Texas agent Of the United
States Bureau Of Animal Industry, stop
ped c fl in Fort Worth yesterday on his
return from Chicago, where he has been
watching the experiments that have been
recently made in the yards there in rels-
ton to splepic fever. Mr.. Williamson
will shortly MAKE report to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture on the subject, snd
did not feel ct liberty in sdvsnce OF fling
his report 10 make any public ststement
in relation to the result Of his investigs-
lions. At the same time he assures Texas
cattlemen that the result CT the expert
ments will in noWise prove injurious to
their interest.
MIR. Williamson stated thss during his
absence north he had seen quite num-
Der Ct cattlamen and butchers and inst
they we're all unanimously in favor OF the
meeting to be held in st. Louis, Novem-