The Arizona champion., 1888-08-04


 ferior male; better not breed at all | if you can't do it to a good male, | for it is losing business to have or keep anything but improved stock. |
 Denver Field and Farm: About one hundred carloads of Texas cattle | per day have been passing through Denver en route to the Northwest. This has been going on for thirty days and will continue for not less than thirty more. Those that are passing along at the present time are in very fair condition, much better than have been the lowing herds in prior years,
 Says the Miles City (Montana) Stock Growers Journal: A very large amount of stock has already begun to flow eastward along the Northern Pacific Railroad, from all points west of here. Fat steers from Oregon and Washington, and some from Montana, have already gone forward, while horses and sheep are passing eastward in large num- bers.
 San Angeleno Standard: Dehorn- ing cattle has been far from a wise 
 move. On the Lipen ranch 80 head of steers were dehorned last year, and these cattle are this year in poorer fix than the others, while immediately after the operation they went down very much in flesh, MilcE cows dehorned, it was noticed, gave less and less milk each day. After two or three years, however, there is no appreciable decline in either flesh or production.
 Some men seem to think that all that is necessary is to procnre the service of a fullblooded stallion in order to get good colts, no matter what the mare may be--cayuse or any other slouch. This is great error; the short road to success in raising frst-class young horses is to breed from good mares as well as good stallions, If cayuse mares are bred to it will require a good many Crosses" before any valuable colts are procured. The cayuse blood is a "stayer" and the best way to "down it" is not to use it in the production of horses.
 The cattlemen of New Mexico, says an exchange, could do an ex- ceeding service and probably be the means of experiencing many COW thief and horse rustler, if they would establish a detective service on the Texas-Arizona trail leading by An telope Springs in Valencia county Scarcely day passes but one or more hard characters are seen going over this trail, and usually with stock not their own. Many man that is wanted in Texas for crimes committed would be ''taken in" if a right-minded officer should be sta toned on the trail at or in tho vicin- ity of the aforementioned place, and much of the horse stealing now going on would be checked.
 They are hard up for stock water down in Florida. The Fort Meyer Press explains the situation as fol lows: Since the year 1876 water has not been so scarce on the cattle ranges as at the present time. In the indiscriminate killing of alliga- tors one great source of supply of water has been obliterated from the cattle country, because when the gators held a water hole they always kept the mud pushed up the banks, and when even hundreds of cattle would come to the gator wallows to drink, and by crowding and pushing are sure to fill it up, Mir. Alligator and family would soon repair the damage by digging and pushing back the mud. Now the cattle stand around these old wallows, which are almost entirely dried up, waiting patiently for rains.
 Referring to pair of horns from a Texas steer that are in tho office of the State Immigration Bureau, and valued it is said at S200, the following comments are made in the Austin Statesman: Twenty years ago such horns, with the beef at tached, alive and kicking, were as common as pig tracks, and with the beef attached were valued at only $l6 to SIS. Indeed, twenty and twenty-five years ago the prairies were alive with four and 5-year- old beeves, fiat and sassy" that were proud possessors of horns which to-day, polished and fixed up, would be worth $200. Chairs made from long horns sell at from $l00 to S250, owing to the size and finish A few more years, with the. grading up of cattle, the long horns will have passed away forever, They