The Arizona champion., 1888-09-01
STOCK NOTES.
Condensed News Items of Interes
 to Stcckmen.

| Several horses in Los Angeles are afflicted with glanders.
 ,l Colonel Broad of Cham, received
 a shipment of Holstein cattle re-
 gently, and among them was a COW
 that cost S400 and has milk rec ord of eight gallons per day, and tips
 the beam at l,600.
 r Fourteen years ago the first
 creamery was started in Iowa. Now t, that state has 495 creameries, 56
 cheese factories and 1000, 900 cows
 and makes for expoot s5, 100000
 pounds of butter annually.
 Five horses were killed near Mo
 Keesport, Pa, by lightning striking
 a barb wire fence, along which the , horses stood. The point at which . the fence was struck was several
 hundred yards from where the
 horses stood,
 I Governor Ross says: Regarding the Territorial equalization board
 of New Mexico that the body will agree upon the following schedule of
 assessments; Sheep, Sl per head;
 cattle, Sl0. and chat land grants
 will be assessed at uniform value
 of Sl per acre.
 The Earth live stock of Apache
 county, Arizona, sold at Sheriff's sale at Los Lunas, were knocked down to Plicido Romero of Peralta;
 the sheep, about 3,60O head, selling at 50 cents each; 309 head of stock
 cattle at S5.50 per head and Is
 horses at an average of Sl2.25.
 Several cases of glantlers have appeared in South Butte this sum-
 mer. A. J. Spear was compelled to
 shoot nine head of horses and mules
 short time ago that were suffering
 from the disease. Great care should
 be taken to prevent any spread of the malady.-Sutter County Far
 mer.
 Dr. Chandler, territorial veteriu-
 ary surgeon, states that Texas , cattle cannot bs admitted to this territory until after the first of
 December. Any person intending
 to bring cattle to the Salt river
 valley from that state should post
 himself in this regard..-Phenix
 Arizonan.
 The character of the stock supply at the Chicago yards this week ha !; been such as to come nearer estab. fishing what the ruling prices really
 are, and has given what has really
 been the first approach toward a
 test of the cattle market On the whole the result of the week has not . been disappointing.
 .- Mir, E. J. Simpson, the popular !, manager for the Aztec Cattle Com t pany, recently drove 1000 head O d cattle from Weatherford, Texas, t' 'i Holbrook at Q cost of only 75 cent !. per head and with loss of only si, + animals in making the journey B. II doing this he saved nearly S5,OO' $ for his company.-Apacle Count. . Review.
 d The receipts of live stock at thu d Union Stock Yards, Chicago, for tn 'e first seven months of this year hay l. been, in round numbers. l.439. .00' E. cattle. 43,400 calves, 3,204, 4,70' 'f hogs, 7SS,000 sheep, and 32,60' n horses. These figures show an ir
 crease on the arrivals for the sam
 time last year of about 277,S00 cal
 tie, SOY calves, 460, 900 hogs, IF ,' 453 sheep, and S65 horse' 
 d Some one has estimated that tn d consumption of meat on an ocea ,o steamer is greater than the amour n. required in many small towr ,s One of the many transatlantic stean "a ship lines annually consumes nor m than two million pounds of meat, 0 r. some 4,600 sheep, 1900 lambs, an I nearly 2,500 oxen. Truly the SC " butcher is an important and bus pr parsonage.
 d In the depreciation of value y costs Texas fully S5,000, 900 t y, brand horses and mules This e, st pensive method is practiced to pro
 tect stock against thieves. Is ther
 not a cheaper means to secure thi
 protectionl This is serions que
 tion, worthy of the intelligent COT i- sideration of our oldest legislator D. Stock associations may well spen II some time in discussing this que' tion.-El Paso Tribune. le It is no less than astonishing t m see the immense number of horse
 passing eastward these days frol Id this region. Thirteen cars passe y, here on Tuesday and sixteen ca a. loads on Thursday, and scarcely g freight train passes any day but h' li- greater or less number of ca
 laden with horses bound for tl
 eastern markets. There must be 'ss' scarcity of horses somewhere in u J' eastern country, judging from u
 number of steeds speeding towal
 the rising sun,---Miies City (M. l
 Gsool- G.nxuar