Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-31
R0UND-UPS.
RumorS Of a Coming Deficiency in the
Cattle Supply Without Foundation.
There is No Reason why Texas Should not
Supply Her Own Bacon-It Can be
Cured Here as well as Anywhere.

Cured Here as well as Anywhere.
The average wool clip of Colorado in
L:4S89 viii be close on to seven pounds per
capita Of the fiocks-a half pound larger
| than ever before.
When the fleece from an average good
! sleeps back viii bring a dollar there
need be no complaining. At that rate
sheep are better than cattle and 100 per
cent. better than wheat.
Young Kuhen yesterday sold a car
load Of yearlings at 81 per head to party
named Brooks of MerkEe The same
parties SOLD four head of horses for livery
purposes to a Mr.. Culvin of Iowa Park
! for $3.50.
Col. w c. Young received a letter
from his ranch in CARA county yesterday
which stated that there had been heavy
rains in all that section of the country
Considerable damage had been done by
high water washing down ranch fences.
Cattle were in fine shape and grass grow
Ing spleudidly.
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recent rumors OF a coming deficiency in
the beef supply Of the country, they can
find reinsurance in this year 5 report of the
agricultural department on farm animals.
To put the statement in round numbers
there were % 900 600 in the United States
in 1860, 80 900 900 in 1880, and 80 900, -
0G0 in 1888, the year covered by the last
report.
Brains in breeding good stock are es-
sential; study well your stock, your
breeds and breeding; read up the stock
papers, get the boys interested in good
improved stock and they will be safe;
they will make good citizens and will win
success and prosperity. The draft horse
stands at the head for dignity, useful
ness and profit; head the boys that way
and their success is assured.
Mr.. David White, a large cattle
breeder of the Texas Panhandle, says ne
has used several breeds of cattle i'll
breeding the native Texans with, but has
found that the Galloways do better and
make better steers than any other. They
are rustlers, and will walk further for
water than any that he has used.
They do not hump up when the nOTther
strikes them, but Craze in the face of it.
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A large number Of cattle along the Ma
ton line have been dying the past two,
weeks of Texas fever. The disease is. res
ported to prevail all along the Territory
line from Arkansas City to Caney and
some Of our stOckmen have sustained
quite heavy losses. Two men, BieVins
and Butler, have been arrested near
Caney, for bringing southern cattle into
the state contrary to law. - Sedan Times.
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No man need look for any improve
ment in the price of cattle as long rs the
rush of their immature cattle to the East
ern markets continues, and as there is 10
prospect of the rush being stopped this
summer there is no prospect for better
prices. If the inferior cattle now being
forced OF the markets were held off, and
good, fat beeves were given a chance
prices would undoubtedly improve.
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The mule-footed hog Is a product of
the Indian territory. This hog has
solid hoofs like a mule or horse, but in
all other respects is similar to the domes-
tic hog. Now that Oklahoma is settled,
and rapid communication being opened
up with the Territory, patrons of restaur-
ants need not think they are eating a
mule 5 hOof, if, when they call for pig 5
feet, they receive something different
from the ordinary two-toed toothsome
dish.
The Hot Sulphur Springs Times, Col
orado, gives a gloomy account of the
cattle outlook in that section of the
state. 1t says, 1.-The grass Is very short
and the ranchmen are very blue. Hay
VIII be scarce, and therefore high IN
price. great many Tanchmen viii not
have enough hay to feed their own stock
next winter without buying. Where to
buy and where to get money with which
to buy Is q serious question with some. A
light winter is their only salvation. -
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Col. W. c. Young, in speaking of hog
raising in Texas, said to GAZETTE re-
porter Yesterday that there was no reason
on earth why it should not become one of
the leading industries of the state.
Hogs thrive as well and multiply
faster in Texas than in any state 1 know
of - said he, land they can be raised at
less cost. As to curing bacon in Texas
it is no trouble at all. For ten years.
made all my bacon, and had no trouble
in saving it. There are two processes by
which it can be cured here, and the meat
VIII be just as good as that shipped into
Texas from the North. One process is