The Arizona champion., 1888-04-07
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
Stock Notes.

yert in bucking from your training don't blame him for it..
 Nearly 900 trotters have made records of better than 2:25. Sev- enty-six have just equaled that time.
 There are rso farms in the Blue- grass region of Kentucky devoted to breeding thoroughbredS and trotterS.
 The Denver people, raised Sro, 1000 with winch to entertain the National association, in that city on the 18th instant.
 The trotting congress voted toI abolish the use of the word "dis tanced" and substitute, therefore "ruled out.
 1t is claimed that the first sheep imported into the United States were fetched to Jamestown, Va, in IoI9 and to Massachusetts in I653'
 A Las Vegas Stock Grower man now at Kansas City, writes: Prices must go up this year. So say all oi the commission men and every Kan sas citizen interested in cattle.
 The annual meeting of the Nevada Live Stock A ,sociltlon was held al Winnemucca on March 2oth. Ike reports show the live stock business 10 be in a hJurishing condition. and the losses from winter causes light.
 The canadian government leases land to cattle men for terms not to exceed 2I years, to be annulled on ? years notice. No lease can be for over 100000 acres. Nearly 4,ooo, 900 acres are thus leased.
 A young woman iu Tipton county Tenn, displaysa remarkable power over horsrs srdother animals. It Is asserted that she can ride and drive at a moments notice horses and mules that no one else can handle.
 At farmers institute meeting at Bloomington, Hl., last week, MT. Iohn Evans, of El Paso, speaking on the subject, said that since October Ist he had dehorned 3,552 cattle. MT. Clifford of Mclean, sald he had dehorned over 1000.
 The latest fashion in cowboy jew elry, and which, by the way, IS an unusually neat and appropriate one, is the use of cattle brands as de- signs for sieve buttons, scarf pins, etc., in gold. and silver while even the precious stones are occasionally used.
 The St. Louis Fair Grounds asso- oiation will give special stake race Jupess, for the Democratic National convention, for all ages, for from SI.5oo to S2,ooo added money. Name of the race will be "Cleveland Stake "
 .Chere is a growing disposition among the stockmen of New Mexico to devote more attention to horse raising. Horse ranches in sufficient number, at least to supply the home demand, will be established here in time. No enterprise will yield more handsome returns. .-Raton Range.
 An exchange says that several cars of diseased cattle recently arrived in San Francisco from Kern county California A veterinarian asserts that the malady Is "caxls bone, a disease of the bone winch ultimately affects the flesh, and recommends that all the diseased animals be killed. -
 A man generally gets about what he pays for in thIs world. If he eConc n.izes in breeding the two for five" staIlions he gsts colts that will cost hIm SIS or SIoo to raise, and which will De worth $50 to SIS when they are raised. ~-'lnIs klnd of horse breeding IS what keeps many farmer poor, .f ! -
 A Dispatch from Akron, Ohio, sa,stGat Charles Smith, farmer near that place, has. a horse that is at- tracting hu ,dreds of visitors. The animal has q live snake or parasite. two inches long. in the aqueous humor of the eye, The horse IS rendered 50 nervous that 1t IS almost crazed at times. Veterinauans say the case IS a very rare ole, especially in this country.
 There has developed demand for two-year old steers amounting to 5000 head for Wyoming and Montana ranges. Offers have been made and refused on the bssis oi SI2 around for Panhandle cattle, and holders ask SIS for Panhandle raised tive, year ,oids. Buyers are now push tug towards New Mexico to see what they can see. It Is to De hoped that the Journal will not have to quote Texas range cattle on the basiS oi SI 2 around for Panhandle two year old steers.- Texas Live Stock Journal.