Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
R0UND-UPS.
Money can Be Made in the Sheep Bust
nessn Man VIII Stick Close to 1t.
Keep Money at Home and Raise Your Own
Pork-Exports of Beef-Texas Horses
and How They Should be Handled.

Texas wool is dull in local markets at
present and some sales have been made
recently at low figures, but there is a
strong impression among woolmen that
by August prices viii improve mate
rally.
Four years ago Ike Gronski, who has
been in the sheep business for four
years in West Texas, sold out his stock
for SIG 600. He began business with
1000 head and since he first started he
has sold muttons TO the value of $1,000
and Sl2 100 worth of wool and has now
on hand % 200 pounds of wool. By
these figures will be seen what can be
done In the sheep business if a man will
stick to it closely.
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The Home land and cattle company of
whom the Neidringhaus Brothers of st.
Louis are the largest stockholders and
T. T. D. Andrews of Fort Worth is gen.
eral manager, have leased the Diamond
pasture, consisting of about 600, 900
acres in Gray and Carson counties,
for five years, at yearly rental of 5
cents an acre. There are already seven
wells and wind mills in the pasture, and
the owners will dig twenty-five more for
sion September l and place 20 ZOO cattle
in the pasture at once.
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According to the Cisco Roundup it
appears that Eastland county during the
year 1888 consumed GA ,064 pounds of
bacon, and lard to an amount that
swelIed the total cost of both to the sum
of SIS 600. All of this went to the
North, where the bacon and lard was
shipped from to Texas. During the year
of 1888 fine crop of corn was made for
which there was but little market de-
mand. The crop of the present year
will probably be much greater than last
and the price equally as low. The sur
plus Of corn will pay better put into hogs
than in any other way it can be used.
This county should sell hog meat instead
of buying it; and if farmers viii make
the effort the large sum of money they
contribute every year to Northern pack
cries will remain in their hands to help
make them independent of credit and
mortgages.
The Cincinnati Price Current claims
that beef exports from the country are
rapidly increasing and says: 'For the
month of May dressed beef exports were
uOT6 Iudu uOuDl6 IIlG amount ldSG year:
the total of fresh, sailed and canned beef
was % ,466 200 pounds against IA $40 900
pounds in May last year For seven
months from November l beef exports
aggregate I59 ,OI2 900 pounds, against
100 ,8l4 900 last year-an increase of
40, 1913 900 pounds. The average export
value of fresh beef for seven months was
SIS Il per 100 pounds against IS 81 last
year.
Exports of cured meats in NAV, in
Guiding bacon, hams and pork, were
Z .474 900 pounds in excess of correspond
ing time last year, an increase of nearly
% per cent. Lard exports were 10 per
cent. greater than last year.
For the month of May the total exports
of hog, beef and dairy products were
l07 $50 200 pounds, against 81 1897 900
pounds last year.
A number of stockmen were engaged
in a discussion in this city yesterday
the horse being the subject.
The best horses for particular work was
argued to be the Norman by one, while
another claimed that the Norman was
too heavy and could not hold out against
smaller animals. This party advocated
a cross of some good breed with the Nor
man.
Sin this state,'' said another, "the |
Texas horse is the best for our work. |
He can do more and stand more work in |
this climate than any breed of horses |
that has been brought here yet, pro-
vided he has been raised right. l have |
always contended that if Texas-raised |
horses were treated right when they
7s6Fe growing up and not turned |
out on the grass to shift for them
selves we would soor have as good |
horses here for general purpose as any
state. 1t is no wonder that horses sell as
low down as $40 when they never saw an
ear of corn in their lives. If you will
take a good Texas colt and begin feeding
him corn and oats, and plenty of it,
from the time nature intended him to eat
I, you can make a good sized and good
general horse Of him; but if you simply
ct him run on the range you are very
apt to have a scrub in size as well as
everything else. You will have to take
are of an animal if you expect to make e
anything out of him.