The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-23
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

A yearlIng that will weigh 700 pounds is
worth moro tnan two weighing 400 pounds
each.
1t is said that a Nevada ranchman, to
protect his cattle from the effects of biz.
yards, has painted them all with mixture
of tar, red clay and linseed oil.
1t is estimated that fully $4,000 head OF
beeves will be shipped from Collins,
Nueces county, this spring, if the Skid
more branch of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railway can be completed
to that point by April 10.
1t is announced that a convention of
agricultural and live stock interests will
be called at the Agricultural and Mechan.
icsl college of Texas, on March next, to
consult with the board of the new expert
ment station concerning the work of that
institution. 1t should be largely attended.
An experienced stockman remarked the
other day that no losses would occur this
winter in Southwest Texas except on over
| stocked pastures, and the loser would have
| no one to blame for it but himself. More
and more the tendency is toward less
and better cattle and better care-Texas
Live Stock Journal.
A sheepman of fifteen years of prac
tical experience in Texas says that wool
could be profitably raised in southwest
Texas at ten cents per pound were it not
that the wild animals killed the sheen
when turned loose in the pasture. The
saving in sheperds' hire and the improved
condition of loose breeding is from thirty
three to fifty per cent. He strongly favors
a liberal scalp law.
Mr.. A. j. Anderson, ranching
southwest of town, is expert
menting this winter feeding 100 three.
year-oid steers on cactus. Last week he
received through Jones a. Marshall feed
cutter with three knives arranged spec-
tally for cutting the prickly pear. The
knives cut it into bits as large as the end
of finger, thoroughly crushing it and
destroying the thorns. The cattle eat il
with avidity, and Mr.. Anderson says thew
now look as we'll as if corn fed He ev.
poets to have them up to 1,4OO pounds nv
April, when he will put them on the early
market.-ColOrado Clipper.
Commission men are going IN bs n
great deal more close in their dealings
with stockmen in the future, was the YER
dict of a party of cattlemen yesterday.
Ihey are not so much disposed to ad
VaLce money on the Representation of
men who have nothing to back their worc,
and II a man has not the actual securitv
Tor any advance he may ask, he can rest
assured that he will not be accommodated
ms Is one of the prominent points in
me general fact that cattle raising IN tn.
future Is going to be carried on with tho
precision and accuracy that cbarsct.rizo
other pursuits.-Fort Worth Gazette.
According to information r.ceived ~
the Texas and Pacific office the rains ne
the past few days extended no tur her
west than Big Springs, and the mercnrv
no where on the Rio Grande diyisi,n do
scended lower than 80 deg. above zsro
mere was some fear among cat,lem.n
'nat the storm had been accom- panied h-
sect and snow in the west, in which .ve,,,
mere must have been great suffering onS
some loss among the cattle which had no,
recovered from the shock of the bli1zarJs
IN January and the early part of IN. nr.se
eht month The information that tho
storm did not reach the western rsnmo
region will, therefore, be pleasant mems 81
stockmen.-Dallas News.
u a VIZ ter in the Burnet Bulletin sars.
As free grass is getting to be a thin &c