Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-28


70 the matter OF shade for their cattle. a COW
needs Protection from the hot rays of the sun as
much 2s man does, and particularly IS this the
case with milk cows. Should COW become pros
trated By the sun she IS ruined for the season,
and probably forever as mixer. Pastures for
8l!B cattle should contain good shade trees or
else suitable sheds TO protect the animals from
the sun.
The Western country, except a strip along
the Rio Grande river extending as far east as
Sierra BlanCO, has been visited with fine rains
and the range Is reported to be in splendid con-
dlJIon. the grass IS green and crisp and cat
tie are rapidly improving. By fall they viii
be good fat and in fine shape to pass through
the winter Notwithstanding the good shape
cattle are IN there IS but little doing in the
Vest IN the way Of sales, the trouble being that
all who wish TO trade are on the same side-the
selling side.
The International investment company of FL
Paso recently sold for clients OF theirs ranching
near Wagon Mound, y. N, 1900 head of
mixed sheep to be delivered at Springer, n. NJ,
on August and S. The prices paid were as
follows: Ewes, one to five years old, 81. 40 per
head; ye2rling wethers, $1.2O per head; lambs,
go cents per head. The contract calls for good
improved sheep raised in Northern New Mexico.
The buyer w. ". Gleason of Cheyenne,
Wy. =, manager and part owner Of the Warren
live stock company of Wyoming, of which the
present governor of that territory, the Hon. F.
T. Warren, IS president.
Afarmer named Hilton hired very inexperi-
enced boy to help him about the place. One
over in the pasture. The boy took about quart
OF salt and rubbed it over the calf. working it
into the hair. gang of colts in the pasture
scented the salt and got after the calf. They
licked the hair all off the calf's back and tried to
hex The hide OF, too. The farmer tried to catch
the CALI to wash it. but the creature thinking he
wanted to hex it. too kept out of his way. The
boy, calf and farmer all unhappy. The
colts are the only that got any fun out of it.
Savannah Republican.
While this has been prosperous year in Texas
so far class of people in the state have better
reason to feel good than the sheepmen. 1t was
only a few years ago that they were looked down
on by the big cattle kings as q kind of Jim
Crow crowd, and were not regarded as much.
Then the sheep industry was in its infancy and
the fOckmaSter was hardly counted. The cattle
barons were the high-amuck-a-m muck then.
They had money to throw at the birds; then cat
tie were up and the demand for them was great.
Now the reverse is just the case. Cattle
now down, and as well known cattleman
marked a few days ago: The more cattle a man
has the poorer he is. - With the sheepmen
things are lovely. Wool is up and the demand
for mutton sheep is rapidly increasing. The
hockmaster is rolling in prosperity, while the
cattleman is splashing around in tho consumme.
The interest in fine stock in South America is
rapidly growing, and already the fine stock
trade with that country has developed some
strength. During this year number of ship
mentS of fine cattle and horses have been made to
that country from England and the United
States, but the large majority has been made
from the former cOuntry-in fact, British stock
all means belong to the United States. Mr..
Freeman, who spent several years in this country
as an expert cattle buyer and importer of shire
horses, IS now engaged IN Sendlng large num-
berS of fine cattle and horses from England to
South America chiefly to BuenOs Ayres. South
America is surely awakening up, and is working
great Improvement in her stock. She has also
gone into the beef refrigerating business, and
may compete with this country before long.
The distiIlery feeders have not made much
money on their cattle this year. In fact some of
them have been losers up to date. The crop
Is said to be a little more than half marketed.
Peoria, Sterling and Terre H2ute the chief
points tributary to this market. Formerly
good many were fed in Chicago, but the sheds
have never been reflled since they were cleaned
out by ordinance over a year ago. The cattle
fattened on Stop are mostly so near the city that
they be ordered in on twelve to fifteen hours
notice. The slOp feeders have sold here this
summer at 50. 20. mainly at So 90a4 90. They
paid about s.. 5003.00 for 800 to 1850 pound
steers. The costs of feeding on SlOp are said to
average about 10 cents per steer per day. There
is one varying expense that is hard to count on,
namely, that of ''invaids, - as they call the cat
tie that do not do we'll These cattle sometimes
do well in time, but often have to be sold out for
little or nothing, and sometimes are dead loss.
It takes about SIX months TO make a steer fat
slOp.- Live Stock Indicator.
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The terms in-breeding and inter breeding
often used by writer's as SYNONYMOUS terms, but
thev really have quite a different signifcation
In breeding means the mating of animals which
are more or less closely related; while inter-
that have no relationship with each other. For
example, suppose a ShoTthcrn and Hereford are
bred together, the offspring possesses half the
blood of each Next, suppose the same of a Sus-
sex and Devon, then the offspring of these two
crosses bred together. This would be inter
breeding, their parents having no cOnsanguinity
of blood between them. 1t is safe
course TO pursue; and for the at
tainmen5 of special ends may at
times prove quite advantage to the cattle
breeder. Ln-breeding, or breeding -and-in, as
it Is more generally termed, is dangerous unless
to a person of great c Experience, and who is a
perfect judge of the projections and imperfec-
lions of animals; then il may be advantageous.
1t is frequently followed by the unskillful with
loss of size, thrift and constitution; and finally
by bar-enness. Fatal diseases are also to be
dreaded: for suppose one parent is touched with
a disease; in consequence then of its Consan-
gunity to the other. this will be likely to be in
teusified in the offspring; and if both parents
nave the same disease, it will probably be
doubled or qUadrupled in virulence. .s,5slS,
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