The Arizona champion., 1888-03-31
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
Stock Notes.

spring round ups.
 Lexington and Longfellow are the only thoroughbred stalllons that ever stood at $500 in America.
 Not one of the carcass awards at the last Chicago fat stock show went to an animal that took prize when alive.
 Fifty head of cattle in Kent coun- ty, Maryland, have been killed be. cause of the existence ofpleuro .pneu. monia in the herd.
 It has been more than quarter of a century since beef cattle have said as low in this country as in the average markets of 1881.
 s. C. Rogers, of Walnut creek, A. T., has just sheared about ton and half of 7,inch wool from his flock of Angora goats. lie will ship Il to New York.
 Horse dentistry is becoming quite a science, and many special InStru- ments have been invented for the leneGt of equine patients. Decayed teeth of horses are filled with gutta percha.
 Dexter is still at the Bonner stable New York City. He IS now thirty Nears old. He IS given walking exercise daily, but never harnessed, 1t is said. Thus he IS enjoying a "green old age."
 II there is a man. around your ranch who is continually yelling at the horses, give him leave of ab- aence for at least ten years. By that time he will have learned that yelling at horses ruins their disposition.
 A good nights rest goes long ways toward making horse able to do a good days work. All the stable comforts that can be afforded are certainly due the horses that are compelled to work hard all day.
 The old mare Green Mountain 2laid, now twenty-siX years old and in foal, has been valuable beast in her day. Her colts that have been sold have brought S24o,coo One of her colts-Electioneer by Hamil- ;Onian--Is valued at SIoo, 900.
 Over 500 head of horses, mules and mares were imported through the Laredo Tex. customhouse during the months of January and February. In addition to this. about I,2oo head of domestic horse stock was shipped from that point during the same time.
 Cattle raisers throughout Southern Texas are enthusiastic over the Iallening and economical qualities of the new fattening feed that has re- gently been introduced-prickly pear chopped up and mixed with cotton seed meal. 1t IS sad to be superior 10 corn or grain generally, at only one fourth the cost.
 The Cattle Trust of Denver has closed a contract with the French Government to supply the French army with I5o,ooo head of beeI cattle annually. The price is not trade pubic. Shipments will be made to Chicago as soon as possible, where, It Is understood, the stock will be slaughtered.
 According to the Phoenix Gazette, 2o, GOO head of beet cattle were car red out of Arizona during the year 1881 by the southern Pacific Rail. ', ad, nearly all of which went to California. The cattlemen of the territory, says the Gazette, have l,rn ennchrd from the Golden State ( Tast ysar upwards of 5000, 900, "ney paid Tor choice beef.
 The draft horse int, rest is increas. ing all over the country. lmporta, tr ms are i.creasing Icy yond all pre- Crdent, notwithstanding the higher luces all over Europe for draft lurses good enough for the American trade. The demand here calls for nore horses, and importations are creasing, and many new importers l..ye enterld lne field this year.
 At recent lawsuit in Texas thir tc,n expert cattle braudeTS swore tha Vhen cattle were branded in ths clark uf the moon' the brand will ,,ver get larger than the first i'm IfesSion, no matter how much tho animal may grow. hut If the brand ilg iron is applied in the "light o ihe moon" the scar will spread, and the lighter the moon the larger wn lr the spread.
 The Range Journal says that new Iatent hend ls on deck with paten io supers, de branding. If all thi genius clalms for his process is true le will ger.khe everlasting gratitude o all stockn en and make big fortune This time he claic.s to have invented dye that will change any coloreC air on creatarc to any desired tint without injunps the hnue beneath rpon one spphCatIol. In this man Ter rerfecly ioim,d letters can b' ermancmg dyed upon tue hair and raD-mg ,oois wliI be for scrap iron,