Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-20
ROUND.UPS.
1t Looks as If the Spring Supply of
Beeves Would Be Light.
A Shortage of Cattle-Disease in Wyoming-To
Winter in .Texas-Electric Fence-Beef
Values-Cattle Chatter.

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Winter in .Texas-Electric Fence-Beef
yalues-Cattle Chatter
The Moon ranch shipped 1850 fat cat
tie from Quanah to Chicago last week.
The itchfork ranch also sent out 40
| head from the same place.
Some Wyoming ranchmen made an ex-
perimental attempt at sorghum raising
last year, and having made a success of
it, next year the business will be ex-
teaSsd.
LA thirty mile stretch of electric fence
Een the Tx range between Amarillo and
EBugby Canon has Just been completed.
People up in that country expect Won
derful results from the experiment.
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NJ. E. Richardson of the Ell Captain
Cattle Company of New Mexico has sold
their three-blOck bunch of stock to John
Wisherd, who will winter them in the
Panhandle of Texas, probably near Hen
rietta.
W. c. Bishop, manager of the Liberty
Cattle Company, last week sold 200 head
of beeVes to A. w. Dunn, at S25. Mr..
Bishop has been endeavoring for some
time to have postoffice established at
his ranch and last week he had petition
to that end signed and forwarded to the
postoffice authorities
Miles City on. 7 ) Yellowstone Jour.
nal: The LO outfit have lost thirteen
head of horses by the at present incura-
BILE horse epidemic, and for that reason
the head of the territorial veterinary de-
partment has been called into requisition.
The disease is creating havoc among
many of the horse herds of Montana.
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Butchers are paying trif1e better
price for their needed stock than have
been ruling of late. Hogs will not bring
over Sc, but calves being rather scarce,
are worth from 4(95c, while steers sell at
81 and 81 .25, with Aery few good articles
being offered. Cows are bringing 81 IS
@1.75 per 100 pounds, an advance of
from 15c to 25c per 100.
V. B. Dickey of the L ranch is ship
ping in large number Of cattle from
Kleburg, Tex, to winter in his ample
pastures in Tom Green county. He had
shipped in l20 cars up to Monday, the
cars containing on an average twenty-five
head each, and he has twenty or thirty
cars more to arrive yet He will soon have
added over 1000 cattle to his range.
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The secretary of the Colorado Cattle
Growers Association has issued circular
TO the effect that: "Our annual meet
ping occurs January 8, 1889. 1t is desir-
able that we have rs large q representa-
ton of the cattle and horse men present
as possible, as important business will
be transacted. Don fail to be on hand
and bring with you every person that is
interested -
Believing that there are really fewer
cattle in the country than there was three
years ago, notwithstanding the largely in
creased shipments to market, we think
there is hope for the future of the indus
try. Prices on really good cattle have
been much better this year than last, and
the indications are that the same will
hold good for 1889. This is not a good
time to 20 out of the cattle growing busi- |
ness. On the contrary, it is good time
to stay with the old cows and the year
lings Northwestern Live Stock Journal. |
Many dealers believe that fully half q
SiO CtIbIc nav Z DtcH put Oh Inc |
Chicago market this year When to this |
is added the unusually large number of |
veals that have been slaughtered it is easy |
to believe that such a diminution in the |
number Of cattle in the country mas been |
effected as will soon be felt in market |
values of beeves. If the opinion of reli-
able people interested in the industry is
worth anything to cattle owners, they
are assured that that opinion is that a
great shortage of cattle will be apparent
in the near future.
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Such n statement as the following from
one of the most reliable journals of Wyo-
ming makes pleasant reading for Texas
stockmen who are preparing to put fat
beeyes on the early spring markets:
Corn is cheap and feeding steers are
cheap. Still the demand for feeders is
light and there does not seem to be many
cattle put on corn. 1t looks now as if the
supply of corn-fed steers next spring
would be comparatively light, ana in
n demand that will cause
good prices for this class of cattle. We
hope this latter may prove true,
because the men who have fed cattle
during the past two years have made no
money.
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For some time past there have been
rumors of a strange disease appearing
among the horses in Montana, and from
time to time this paper has published re-
ports, showing as far as could be learned,
the features of the malady. Whether or
not it is epidemic or dangerous outside
the immediate localities in which it is now
located can not be ascertained, as the
people where it exists know nothing of
the nature of it. Holloway, the terri
torial veterinary surgeon of Montana,
will not admit that an unusual malady
prevails there, and on being asked about
~ prevailing horse disease, said that he
knew of nothing but what could be found
more or less in every state and territory
in the Union. Severe forms of influenza
were present in many sections of the ter
ritory, and the mortality in some in
stances was considerable, but not more SO
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