The Arizona champion., 1888-03-24
w EEKLY CHAMPION.
Stock U0tSS.

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 Fifty carcasses of dressed beef are carried in one car 'agalnst sixteen head of live cattle. ....s
 Cattle alone represent one-fourth of the assessed value of taxable property in New Mexico.
 Four hundred cattle were killed by a railroad accident ninety miles from New York City last week. l
 A manufacturer who makes tools for dehorning cattle cannot produce them fast enough to meet the de mand.
 Don't run tie steers when you gather for the spring market, unless you intend entering them in the spring races.
 If there IS a vicious bull in your herd, take his horns off. It wont hurt him half so much as he may hurt you if you don't.
 Several carloads of Hereford and Shorthorn cattle have recently been shipI ed from, Illinois to South Amer ica, principally to Buenos Ayres.
 Now is the time to purchase good bulls. For good reasons eastern breeders are anxious 10 sell. The damage by the severe drouth virtually compels the sale. Y.
 From now on livestock will de. mand more care, for the winter con- Htipation has rendered them more liable to the eneryating purgingS of green grass and Springs warm days, Sacramento Mountain Cattle Co.,, of New Mexico, have sold ? 900 head of graded young stock to go to Montana. They were bought by Ryan Brothers, of Leavenworth Kansas. rnv'.r T
 In the year just past, there have died twenty, seven uotters with "a record of ,:so or under, five of these having lower than ago, three of s:Is and one that made a mile Tn s;I5 Ia.
 If youlwish,to tell the age of cattle byatheir horns remember that the heifer has no rings until two years old and:the bull none until fiy', o that the number of rings plus rep lesents the age oi, the heifer and plus the age oi the bull.
 -@-The annual meeting of the Inter- national Range association begins at Denver on, Wednesday, the 18th. Present sindicaions for q good at tendance are quite encouraging. A great deal of work IS being mapped out for the session and the meeting will be interesting.
 A gang ofcattle thieves from Kan . sas who have been operating near Paladora, in the Neutral Strip, CD, Countered an obstacle last Thursday night. Three night herders' were watching the cattle when the gang made raid upon the herd, and cut out a bunch and started off with them, when the herders gave chase, firing promisCuouSly in the dark. Next morning man wearing a false . beard, was found dead on the prairie together with a dead steer and horse, Served him rlght.-rerritorial Ad- ,YoCate. .-.-..---
 A sheep that will weigh when alive
 
 about a hundred and ten or twenty pounds Is the proper sheep to have on the farm, or in small floCks. To be the best adapted to the purpose of mutton and wool it should be a N.medium feeced anilnal--neither too fine BOT too coalse. It should carry from eight to ten pounds of good Combing wool. This sort of sheep may be had by crossing the best Shropshire bucks 10 be had on good sizeable American ewes, and then tecdiig the lamps well until fully grown and '' developed. Denver ' Field and Farm. ..-. "
 Tricky cattle dealers in Kings county, New York, have discovered a way 10 make money out of pleuro pneumonia. They bought up lot of poor COWS cheap and sent them to Jamaica and villages in Queens county, where they were placed among the herds of diseased cattle. When the Cattle Inspector came along, condemned and appraised these poor COWS, the price awarded would exceed the original cost, ten, ffteen, or perhaps twenty dollars. , They were making preparations to carry on the scheme on a larger scale when the game was discovered.
 Practical jokes are very often play ed on sheep station in Austra. Ina, especially on new chums. The most awkward horse is given to the new conner, and the result eagerly watched for. Perhaps the Austra- lian "buck jumper" is the most diff cult horse Tn the world 10 sit. He allows himself to be mounted quietly, and then puts his nose between his knees, arches hls back like cat, and usually unseatS his rider. They are sometimes taught to buck jump, and strangers are challenged to ride them. Some can even buck right out of the saddle without bursting the girths, aLd leave their rider behind on the ground. The black fellows in a
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