The Arizona champion. [volume] (Peach Springs, Mohave County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-06
STOCK NOTES.

W stoSa"th.
A cross COW should be disposed of
as soon as possible, lest the herd be
permanently Injured.
Comparatively few fine cattle are
now being imported. Our home
stock of fine cattle are not TO be
surpassed.
There are, according to the Indi-
ana bureau of statistics, 100000
more beef animals than dairy COWS
in tie state.
IL is said ON good authority that
Texas cattlemen are in so much bes-
Ter financial condition than year
,go that they do not have to sacri-
ice their cattle at any price,
a horse up in Michigan has
changed hands SO often that every
stranger comes around he opens his
mouth TO have his teeth examined,
so that bis age may be arrived at.
The Home land and Cattle Co.
recently bought 5000 steers in
Denver from Denver parties. They
will reach their range in the eastern
part of this county in the latter
part Of this month.--katon Range
The salvation Of Western Texas
lies under the ground, says the San
Antonio Express, Artesian wells
can be secuted pretty much any
where. When every ranchman
owns one or more the stock pro-
blem will be solved, 4
Seventy-one thousand, one bun,
dred and sixteen cattle were receiv-
ed in the Chicago market last week.
This is the boss record, South
western shippers should not be too
anxious about getting their steers
into eastern markets nowadays.
In the Rural World the prediction
is made that within two years beef
cattle will bring from % to 30 per
cent. more than they are bringing
to-day, high as they are. There
never was a time better than now
to invest in young cattle of improved
breeds.
Live stock shipments over the
P Il A. @. from this sections still
continue, six a'loads leaving
Baugharts this week destined for
the California market. Prices
range about two cents on an average,
delivered at the railroad station. -
Hoof and Horn,
Cavalry horses for neighboring
posts are still coming in. One lot
arrived last Sunday night and an
other lot Wednesday nj hit. They
are all exceptionally fine animals,
compared with those formerly re-
ceived for similar purposes Viii
cox StocSman.
The Bureau of animal Industry
now has the sum OF 100000 to
spend, and the commissioner of az
ricultur. has had his salary raised
from s 1000 to $4,000, We shall
probably know fully as much about
hog cholera and Texas fever one
year hence as we do now,
81 have been in in the cattle
businesr several years." said gen
tleman last Sunday afternoon, "but
that is new wrinkle to me-" and
he pointed 70 Mexican who had
taken turn around the horn of his
saddle with cows tail and was
complaceltly shaking her into a
corral TO be batchered. st.
Johns Review.
Referring TO the plan of yarding
the Texas cattle separately, the
Texas Live Stock Journal says: "AIl
this is correct and proper so far as it
goes, but experiments should be
continued until it is ascertained itf
all Texas castls can communicate
splenic fever. One test is just as
necessary as another"
An exchange tells of peculiar
weed growing along the foothills in
Utah whose ordor att cks sheep
that come within a few yards of it
and causes them to sneeze and tum-
BILE abaat until the blood gushes
from their nostrils and tboir neck
UecomaS bioken in the general gym
ma tic exercise. IL attacks only
sheep aud horses, cattle and human
beings can handle it with impunity.
Mr.. Steel, in his paper on "Wild
Horses" says that the origin Of the
wild horses is traced through trsdi-
ton to Central Asia as the aborigi.
nal abode of the horses, while our
mustang and bucking bronco are de-
cendents Of domesticated animals
introduced from Europe. He gives
the date Of 1887 as the landing Of
The first horse in America at Buenos
Ays's.
Tie Phoebe Record says: Some