Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-05
ROUND-UPS.
4 Commission Agent Sees No Reason
Way Rise Sh0Rld Be Expected
in Beef Va!uess
About the Success of Fesding Cattle in
North Texas, and How Range Stock
Have FRrod This Winter.

The Texas StockmAn says one main
reason why satisfactory progress has not
been made in cattle improvement in Texas
is because great manyof the grade bulls
shipped TO Texas came here because they
were not fl for steers.
The railways entering Denver have
agreed to issne haIf-rste tickets to Visi-
tors coming to Denver during the Cattle
mems Convention and the ceremonies at
tendspg the opening of the Denver, Texas
sndaFort Worth Railroad.
Improved Stock Csrs-In few dsys
Adler & Co. will ship train load of
beeVeS north in Streets stable cars. They
are the first Of the kind brought to Texas.
They are arranged for feeding and water
ing while in transit without unloading,
Srd thus will save several hoUrs' time and
good many pounds of flesh, not 70 speak
Of their humane features. strong effort
will be made to have the Missouri Pacifi ::
adopt the Newell stock cars, which are
arranged for similar convenience. They
consist in an attachment to the regular
stock csr.- San Antonio Times.
Colonel L. D. Voak, live stock scent
Of the Missouri Pacidc system, hiss re-
turned to Fort Worth after attending q
joint meeting Of the central, the South
western and the Texas Traffic 2ssoc,a-
lions, which was recently held in Chicago.
At this meeting were considered matters
relating to rates on shipments of live
stock from Texas. The rates recently
~
its Houston meeting were ratified. A
proposition WIS before the meeting
TO fix rates on double-deck shipments of
sheep from Texas at $40 more than on
shipments Of cattle; and single. deck ship
ments at two-thirds of the rate on double
decks. This proposition was refused. TIE
roads cheerfuliy allowed the privilege of
unloading at Fort Worth TO sell st this
point.
Captain BuzArd of Buzsrd & Hilliard
says they hSVe 1850 head OF cattle in two
enclosures which have been fed since
December, and are already good beef
When first taken off the range they we're
fed thirty pounds of pear and one pound
of cotton-seed meal, and this wss grad
uslly increased to sixty pounds of pesr
and five pounds Of meal. On this the
cattle thrive and fAtten rapidly. At the
pen where the smaller number above re-
ferred to are being fed $4,000 pounds of
pear and $500 pounds of meal are con-
sumed daily. In these feeding operations
ona man to each ore hundred head is
required to prepare the feed and lock
after the stock. The cattle are getting
on so nicely that it is the intention TO
market them st an early dste, and 1t is
said that messrs. Buz4rd & HilliaTd are
so well Satisfied with their success thus
far that they will ship no more cattle d.
rect from the range, bus in the future
will put them all through the pricklY pear
ard cotton seed meal feeding process.
-.
Captain John c. Richardson, Fort
Worth agent of the Jas. II. Campbell &
Co. commission house, yesterday gave
to reporter the results Of his obserys-
ton Of the CONDITION OF the live stock in
dustry inETeXas. With regard to the range
cattle, he said as whole they had done
fairly well this yesr. In some sections
where there had been so much rain as to
destroy the nutriciousness of the grass
there had been some loss, while II more
favored places, the stock owners had
cause for congratulstion. The heavy
rains Of the season had been very disas-
trous to cattle, and in no part of the state
was this more evident than in the feeding
belt, where in many csses cattle had
been put up with view
to corn or cotton seed feeding
during bad weather, only, grszing to be
substituted when possible. OF course
only sufficient feed was procured to
carry the stock through the time they
could not Craze. AS the rains have pre-
vented grazing through greater portion
of the "inter than WAS expected the stock
of feed has been found short in many in
stances; ana when the idea presented
itself OF turning the cattle out on the
grass, 1t has been found that the grass
had rotted Captain Richardson did not
say there would be great loss, but the
cattle were not taking on flesh. The er-
perience would prove no encouragement
to the feeders, however, for the winter
had been al exceptionally wet one, and
such another WAS not likely to recur
sgSin in many years.
Captain Richardson does not feel that
confidence in an early rise in the beef
market that Is expressed in some quarters.
L SaHhSb oSS al sAAAS III Lue lutuIS Iu6S
csn reasonably be expected to pro-
duce rlse," he said. "The
Chicsgo market is Continuing to receive
dsily from 5000 to 5000 head Of cattle, and
j do not anticipate any relaxation in the
supply, to amount to anything, for some
time to come. During the next two
months there may be slight falling OF,
so as to produce little Stiffness in
values, but the quotations seem to be
firmly fixed betweeus$2 80 and 81 co."
"Whst kind of cattle are going on the
market nowf" inquired the reporter.
"They are very fair stock. They come
from all over the country, from Southern
Texas to the extreme north. No matter
where they are from, they are in fair con-
dition. sent up recently couple of
carloads of range cattle from Texas,
that we're in good shape. While the
market is supplied with such animals 1
see no reason to expect rise in values"