Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-24
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
,-s,su Goysrpmen.s Cannot Tex the
Stoos NJ Nom Ci,ig ens While Pass
ing Through the Nation.
,,a Horse 0ead-stoek Fared Well
r.. Psnhendle-alfslfa as Feed
where The Cattle Ocme From.


s. -. Kit Carter OF P.Io Pinto, OF the Kit
q ,.z,ar Cattle Company, one of the pioneer
-."ckmrn of T.x.s, was In Fort Worth
yss.erd'y'
Ui-o 9 t9o-yeat- Hambletonisn
Ion. brought from Indiana 10 Texas
St un,1t vesr ago By Col. III. A. Msupin Of
soyt worth, died yesterday of disease
Eooa,,hIirg locsi.w. TIE animal was
To- v,Iushle, probably worth over
sIsno He was sired by moletonian
q Hsro.
w,D.W. Davi E, the Ohio fine stock
s. - who has been in the city several
8 .sa.xs with bunch CT stock, yesterday
8 ',sn,sad of his last hoof, and now holds
s. Sir5self ready to return north. Mr.. John
. Hovie, the Fort Worth miliousire,
8 nnrch,sed four head Of high-grade
goIs,eiu heifers from this herd, which
- will take to Williamson county, where
- owns Rae ranch, we'll stoczed with
s. siooded ceple. Mr.. w. c. Rogers, an
q srterptisiOg Jack county breeder, bought
hioh-gr4da Holstein heifer and two
.egistered Hereford bulls.
-
AC,lo-sdo geutleu4u writing OF al
,.It., IN Colorado, says: "In stall-teed
4 ing steers laat year the comparative value
n .If.Ifa and clover hay was brought
on Four steers were fed one month on
al the clover hay they would est, and
she next month on misunderstanding so
FOR FIVE months. The steers consumed
4 e.ch from 1873 to 222 pounds more OF
clover hay per month than alfalfs, and in
M c,se was the per cent. of gain less in
me slfslfa months, but considerable
more. The alfalfa hay made pound
gsIG for very 1913 pounds fed-the clover
nav had one pound for every IL IA pounds
fed"
mWhen will this big rush of cattle to
The market end2 l see there are IL 0O0
head daily going on the Chicago market
now" was the remark made 10 8 party OF
stocBmen yesterday.
at doesn't make any difference" an
sRered one who knew; "these will not
interfere with the fat cattle when they are
PIT on the market in the spring"
"Well, but where are they all coming
lfom?"
"They are mostly cattle that have been
feeding, and whose feed has given out.
TheV are Just so many fat cattle taken
from competition with feeders in the
spring. Fat stock will bring good prices
IN the middle of February"
"a
Panhandle Int Estate: 'O,d-timers in
this 1unty inform US that up to this time
ne winter has been the hsrdest they have
ever known in the Parh,ndle, and the
at more chang abe We have had
5ut hEIIy rain, AID The sno wall has been
light, there not having been more than
thiIty-six hours at time that the grass
ass been covered up. The cold waves
nave been numerous, but of short dura-
ton The first week in this month was
he afsst weather for the time of year we
ever saw, but we have had two or three
DAYS since then that we sometimes hear
called 'holY terrors.' S ock have been
FED but very little, and considering the
weather have Jared exceptionally we'll.
Range cattle, with no feed st all other
than the grass from the prairies, are
looking Exc. ptionally well. There have
been exceptionally few losses reported
thus far, by both the range cattlemen and
stock farmers, and as the backbone OF
winter is thought to be broken, We have
but little fears about cattle going onto
The fresh grass in the spring in good
shape"
a decision recently rendered at Fort
Smith by Judge Parker of the United
States court should be known By every
non-citizen CT the Nation Interested IN
cattle therein. The e ct of the decision
Is that the Iudian governments cannot
Tax the stock of non-citizens while the
same are being driven through their coun-
try. Nor caE they, By law, let or hinder
she passage through their country the
stock OF any non-citlzeD, but says
the Indians should have reason
sole psy for the grass eaten by
such stock, without giving the Indians
any legal remeoy for enforcing such col
lectioDs. On this point he says: alt Is
The duty Of everyone who drives his stock
through the nation to do just what every
honest man would do-psy the Nation for
what be gets" Speaking of this decl-
sion the Iudian Journal says: "Judge
r8rker is certainly very verdsnt on the
conscientious scruples of csttlemen If he
thinks snv OF them would pay the Indians
one cent for grass eaten by their stock IS
long SIS this decision is in force. While
we do not mean TO say that cstuemeR are
dishonest, yet they, "a rule, don't pay
Tor GRASS unless comp lied TO-"