Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-05

bHz nearly every
portion OF qua
temais. The regularly recurring rainy
season, LISTING from April to November.
with portion of each day of tropical
sunshine, keeps the pastures perennIally
green and fourIshing. During the So
called dry season, embraced within the
mouths Of November to March, inclusive,
night deHs ara 80 hesvy that the effect is
viriusuy the same, 50 fSr IS vegetation is
concerned, IS that of the rainy selson.
Hence, pastures on the mountsire, val
!eys and the leighborhoods of the Atlsn-
tic and Pacific COSTS are good a. ell Pc
RODS OF the year, although on the latter
they 1Ie richer and more luXurIsnt.
Cattle raising is, therefore, 3 profitable
employment, and 1t is surprising that It
is not more generally undertaken as an
exclusive business. II connection With
coffee and sugar plantations, beef and
PORK raising, IS well as that OF mules and
horses for transportation purposes, be-
come necessary a0j 1ncts, ard the sale Of
surplus stock is q7ite commonly in
dulged, out i. does rot seem to be en-.
tered Into as q distinc. business opera
ton.
In the case of hogs, there is sn extra
ordinary prcfE when raised with the view
OF producing lard, which sells Just low in
this market OF % cents per pound, aud
for which there Is great dem2nd fer
home consumption. There Is no trouble
in raising them, and good breed, such
Gs is known in the Uaited Ssstes as the
"grsss breed" and whose principal food
is the zacate OF the country, will sell for
$50 each when eighteen months old, and
S25 at two years old.
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Last week at Chicago s. NJ. Smith, rep
resenting himself as Gn sgsn. OF Wills &
Orion s.ockmen of New Mexico, WIS., ar
rested TO-DAY while receiving scores OF
personal applications in answer to sdyer-
tisement for young men who wished en-
ployment as cowboys on the plains at s45
per month. Smith had exkcted 81 from
each would-be cowboy IS "evidence Of
good faith" OF the young sspirsnts for
prairie honors. Some Of them took pzins
10 ascertain whether Smith had really, as
promised, arranged with the Santa Fe
Railroad for the transportation OF q regi-
ment OF applicants. The Santa Fe cffi.
Gals had MOI knowledge whatever OF
Smith. Fifty Of the cowboys chased
Smith and his csptoTs through the streets
10 police headquarters, threatening to
string him up to limppost.
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Az experiment in crossing sheep for
the purpose OF producing wool and mat-
ton is uoted by q Southern exchange Gs
followe:
What success wool and mutton sheep
Of the merino-cotswold type may meet
with in Texas remains to be demonstrst-
ed. The Las Morss Ranch Company, six
miles south OF Mepsrdville, Mensrd
county, his over 10000 sheep Of thst
type, under the management OF Nj.
Runge. They need to be shorn only once
q yesr, and the clip this season WAS 3d.
000 pounds, the wool being worth cents
per pound more than the average twelve
months wool OF Texas. These sheep
can only be herded in bands OF about 500
or hall as msny SIS sheep of the kind usu
ally kept in the state.
-.
Ten or twelve Of the cEttlemen snd |
butchers Of Yums, A. T., have addressed /
q letter to the Hon. Mark A. Smith asking |
him to use his efforts and have the treas |
ury department rescind the order reqnir- !
ing the territorial veterinary surgeon to |
inspect eli cattle admitted g. that port. |
They claim there are no cattle on the |
range from where they draw their supply, |
except those which have been exported
from the United States, and that they sre |
perfectly healthy. They claim thst the |
order not only forces the people 20 est |
poor beef, but s6vartises their cattle to |
the world as anthrsXiously, eplepicslly |
and otherwise generally infectiousl7 dan
gerous.
The rains whlch nave fallen In tle |
western part Of the state recently have !
swollen the streams and Affected the |
cattle so thst the lstter are not in IS good !
condition for marketing as they had oeen |
been previously, and as consequence |
shipments in beet are not heavy now,
though there seems little decrease in the |
movement of feeders from the !
breeding sections to the feeding places IN |
the country around Fors Worth. The
foods in some places prevent the cattle !
from being driven to the railroads. Il is
not now though. that any destruction to |
glass will follow the continued rains in |
the west.
Southern Arizona appears to Offer good |
inducements to good spsYer. The Erie,
the San Rafael and the HuschucR cattle |
companies are intending to have q large |
number of heiters operated upon, and |
thers is nothing TO show that other COM
psnies sre not of the same inclination J
The range there is very short this year |
ana the stockmen have been brought face |
TO face with the difficulties to be eXpec!ed |
st any time from overcrowding.
White Sulphur Springs On. T Hus-
b sndm.n: According to the reports in
o II exchanges the snowfall was deeper
Ia Southern Montsns than in the north
err counties. The depth at Billings was
ABOUT five Inches and at Dillon about ten
inches. At White Sulphur Springs the
depth did not exceed one and half in
ches, while st B sntop, 100 miles further
north, we believe 1t hardly covered the
ground.
In Wyoming Territory there is large
log mating and running with gray
wolf. They seem TO be hard pair to
iraw to. They are Masking things inter-
ss,ing for tae cslves. Not long since
hey entered 6n irc,osure and in one
light killed three calves and seriously
crippled fourth.
Fifteen thousand New Mexico steers
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