The Arizona champion., 1889-01-26
STOCK NOTES.
COudensed News. Items of IntrretS
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 Exports of beeves from New York during 1888 were 56,942. a ;ainst B, 40 in 1887 and 52, ,470 in 1886. Quarters of beef exported Ii. 1888 were 23O,9SO in 1886. There were 5,659 sheep exported again t 5,470 in 1887 and 3,6lO
 1886.
 The grass-fed rangers of Montana brought nearly as good prices in the cattle market last year as those which were corn-fed.
 Official estimates show a shortage in the wool crop of 40,O00, 900 ounds as compared with 1887, or a decrease in value of about Sl5, 5,000,7 000 to the farmers Of the country.
 A recent dispatch from Albu- -qaerque says: The distress among cattle and sheep is reported great, and hundreds are daily peiishing. The plains and mountains are cover ed with deep snow, and 1t is hard for the cattle to subsiSt. A drove of Antelope was found frozen to death in the mountains south of Albuquerque.
 Receipts for 1888 at the Kansas City stock yards were I,U5S, OS6 cattle; ZOOS, 984 hogs and 35l, ,020 sheep, showing a gain ever the previous year of 3S6,S62 cattle, a decrease of 414,278 hogs, and gain of Al, ,094 sheep.
 The winter has thus far been so open the great drift of cattle through the Colfax county ranges to the Canadian river and the Staked plains has not taken place. This Is fortunate for the cattlemen as the ranges are nowhere in such condi- tion as to admit of any greater number of cattle being fed on them than naturally belongs to them. Providence is still kind to the cat tlemen of the southwest as regards the conditions of water, feed and .-Stockgrower.
 Ninety-eight head of thorough bred horses were sold at Lexington, Ky, at December sales, for total of S3S, ,560.
 The latest from Jay. Eye-See is that the little whirlwind is out of danger, and that the injury he re ceived will not effect his speed.
 wonder if our readers have ever thought of the salary to be paid tine jockey Hamilton by Sunator Hearst. The coloreI lad will re- ceive for the seasons work almost double what his employer receives as United States Senator.-Breed- ing and Sportsman.
 For the purpose of securing a market for American trotters in England a very ingenious scheme has been proposed. It is to pre- sent the Price af Wales with an elegant team of trotters, and thus new fad into English style and create demand abroad for our trotting stock.
 The butchers at Canton, Dakota, are having a rate war and have reached a point where they are giving away meat. It's fun for the poor folks.
 Silver City Enterprise: From the outlying districts in every DOT tion of the county comes the grati- flying intelligence that stock has never looked so well in the history of the county as at the pre- sent time, and it is believed by our set tiers thet the worst of the Winter is over, and consequently stock of all kinds will come out in good con- ,ition in the Spring.
 Cattlemen tell us that grass is very short upon the range, but water is abundant, and cattle as a consequence, are hard to locate Had the late rains come little earlier in the season this would have been a wonderful grass Win ter, but as it is, catt'e will get through in fair condition an the moisture in the ground assures very ''arly spring feeding.-Headlight.
 England is said to have one COW to eight and-a-half persons; France one COW t0 three-and-a-third, and
 America one COW to one and two third persons. America is ahead Dn the COW.
 An interesting piece of horsefesh is on exhibit near San Fr"n i5co,
 ,eing shiny black mare imported by R. A. Cunningham from Austra-
 ia. The animal is without hair mon her body, and but for this feature would be very handsome.