Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-22
R0UND-UPS.
Rational Methods Of Feeding Applied to
Texas Cattlemen.

Work of the New Butchers and Cattle Growers
OrganlzatIon-An Interesting Case Set
tled-He Would Not Sell.
The Day Cattle Company of Runnels
county, shipped fifteen carloads of fat
beeves to Chicago last week.
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The country around Coleman is not be-
hind other parts of the state III the feed
ing of cattle. R. II. Overall, near Cole
man, is feeding 1000 head Of cattle on his
ranch this winter, and w. p. Stamphill
will also feed lot of corn into a bunch
of beeveS.
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Jose Rodrigues, who is in the employ
of the Oak Grove Cattle Company of New
Mexico, "'treed'' mountain lion last
week, and although he was not armed ,
he did not propose to leave the fierce
monster without fight. He tied his
pocket knife Oh to n pole with his hat
band, and stabbed the animal to death
1t measured over six feet from end of
tail to nose. 1t was surely brave deed
bordering on rccklessness. Many a man
would not have attacked such an animal
with q Winchester.
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A Fort Worth gentleman said that the
new national organization of cattle grow
ers and butchers was not letting the grass
grow under its feet by any means. The
work of rolling up the membership is
beng assiduously pushed by the officers,
and there is now III course of preparation
at the headquarters in Dallas Il circular
calling for funds to defray the necessary
expenses of such legislation as the organ
iZatiQn was formed to secure. A measure
for state inspection Of cattle on hoof be-
fore slaughter, is to be introduced i'll all
she state and territorial legislatures that
meet this winter.
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A case that has excited great interest
among the stockmen, involving Us it does
a large amount of money and being based
upon system of transactions in live
stock once in vogue all over the range
country, but now almost unknown, has
recently been decided in Cheyenne DR..
B. Dole sued Charles Hecht for S42 600,
and lost the case. The parties to the suit
were both cattlemen Hecht sold Dole
herd Of cattle i'll 1888, the book account
Of which showed 24O0 head. When Dole
1900, and brought suit for the difference.
The defense claimed that no misrepre-
sentation had been made and that the
book account method of selling cattle was
universally in use at the time of the
transaction.
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1t is now more than two years since the
once famous Cole 5 circus made its last
n :.
went to New Orleans, where the whole
concern was disbanded and sold out, part
of the outfit going here and the other
part there. Mr.. Cole had three dun ring
horses that he had owned for years, and
that were sold with the others without
Mr.: Coles knowledge He at once
bought them back, saying that he.ss6igd
never consent to have the horses Becomes
the property of anyone who would makesi
them work, and he had dcesded to pHS
them to painless death. Gle proposed
bleeding them to death, Sbut NJ B.
Leonard, Il liverymau, sufstesSed that
the use of chloroform would be .ssbettevsI
and less painful mode. This Vss finally
decided upon, and a reliablsaman pro-
cured, who was to fIuve performed the
operation.
They were all collected in the circus
tent. There was Cole, Leonard, the
riders and the clowns the ringmaSter, the
tumblerS and the leapers, and the three
pet duns. Calling the little mare by
name, he told her to kiss them all good
bye. The intelligent animal, stretching
forward her head, kissed each one. This
was more than they could stand, and the
sacrifice was put on. Cole had no place
TO take them to, SO Mir. Leonard promised
to find some one who would assume charge
of them, under II guarantee never to
york them, but to keep them in good
order until death should claim them for
the grave.
Those who are putting up cattle in this
part of Texas this winter for the spring
markets are giving great deal of atten-
ton to economy in feeding, beng inclined
to think that perhaps farmers i'll the north
who handle comparatively small num-
Der of steers are able to devote greater
pains to their few than can the Texas peo-
pie who carry through so many. There
are points of view from which the ques-
ton can be looked at by which it can be
seen that the advantage if any is on the
side of him who has the.small bunch.
Those who feed cattle in small way
are apt to commit errors which larger
feeders do not fall into from mere forces
of circumstances. With large number
of animals TO handle it is practically i'm
possible TO enter into all the nice details
of care for individuals and special prepa-
ration Of food which by many are supz4
posed to especially conduce to the eoS-
nomical, rapid production of grain, and
in consequence to largely increase the
profits of the feeder. Take housing of
cattle, for instance. The owner ofvt,l
small bunch of cattle feels obliged TO tie
each animal by itself in order TO get the
best gain and be able to control the food
supply. But is tying up fattening cattle
really economy after all? The operation
adds immensely to the labor bill, for the
manure must be laboriously removed sew
eral times day and large amount of
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