Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
ROUND.UPS.
What Farmer Can Do with Twenty
Five Cows and Fifty Acres.
No Danger of Raising Too MANY Good Horses.
Oats the Best Food for Fattening Hogs.
Advantage of Good Breeding Shown.

Buenos Ayres seems determined to
have the best trotters and race horses
IN the world. They have plenty of
money and are prepared to spend it.
Prince Wilkes ought to prove a Levia-
than amongst the trotters, as should
Goldseeker, if he can be bought. Among
the thoroughbred, they have offered
$50 600 for him already and will prob
ably obtain him.
The advantage of good breeding in cat
tie was demonstrated at Engle recently
a lot of high grade Durham long year
Ilngs sold at the same figures per head as
long twos of inferior blood 1t is diff
cult to understand why some range men
still use scrub bulls when it is a well
known fact that there is not one day in
any market in the world when the pro-
geny of good sire is not worth from 50
to $40 per head more than that of
scrub.
In some sections the cry has been
raised that too many horses may be
raised. There are too many inferior
horses raised now, and such viii be the
case until the scrub sires and worthless
dams become extinct. There are lot
of stations kept for breeding purposes
that it would be public benefit to kill
There is no danger of raising too many
good horses in this country Good horses
and lots of them are just what the people
want
Capt. S.. 3. Burnett is in from the 6666
ranch and rs just received returns from
fifteen cara ads oS three and four-year-
old steers sK3Jssd to the Chicago market.
The cattle avefaged 11O9 pounds, and
were sold for, SO. % He has also re-
ceived returns from lot of she cattle
that brought good figures These ship
ments were all, one-quarter and half
breeds, and the returns convinced the
captain more than ever that there is
money in grading up.
Capt. II. II. Campbell, superintendent
of the Matador cattle company, was in
the city yesterday and to GAZETTE re-
porter gave a fattering account of the
condition of the company cattle
Never before, said he, "were cattle
in better fix than they are now The
grass on the range has been given new
impetus by recent rains and it is just as
good as it can be. We are shipping cat
tie North right along and are doing fairly
well in the markets. We have no great
grounds of complaint
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Is it possible that the stockmen IN and
about Fort Worth, knowing the great
good that would result from a Live and
Fat Stock show, are going to do moth
ing in the way of getting up one during
the coming fall? There is no cattleman
who has expressed himself on the sub
ject who has not given it as his opinion
that such an exhibition would be the |
best thing for the stock interests of |
this section that could be inaugurated |
Yet no one seems to be willing to take |
hold of the matter and push it along.
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Experiments IN feeding stock have led |
TO better appreciation of the value of |
oats as food for all kinds of live stock. |
Two years ago, men who made a business
of breeding and feeding hogs, would |
have ridiculed the man who asserted that |
oats are better grain to feed stock hogs |
than corn, and yet it is proven beyond |
doubt that oats are not only better food !
than corn for any purpose except putting |
on the final touches in fattening, but |
that exclusive corn diet is the cause of |
disease and lack of constitution in the /
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The oat crop will grow IN the good opins
ion of farmers and stockmen as knowl- |
edge is extended and careful experiment
shows thu real value OF the grain as food, |
especially for young and growing stock.
A farmer with twenty-five cows and |
fifty acres of land can make more food
than the COWS can possibly eat in twelve
months without any pasture, by soiling
them on green crops. He can make for
age enough for winter and to sell without
a meadow. He can make his own pork
and pork to sell from Spanish peanuts and
sweet potatoes and COW peas, and from
the dairy. He can have cheap chickens
and eggs through field crops and the
dairy. By keeping his cows in small
pens with plenty of litter under them the
year round, except the time needed to
go to water and for exercise, he can
make manure enough to keep his land
rich, and both the farm and the farmer
will become richer instead of poorer
With from two to four breeding mares to
do his work with pillow and cart and har-
row and other implements, if he is a
good manager, a good economist, an in
dustrious man, and is a good detective
lstEd has good pair of eyes which he
uses constantly to good advantage, he
should pay all expenses, taxes and doc
tors pills, ETC.. and lay up $1,000 year
from farm and dairy. He can COM
mence on poor land and do it in a few
years, but he must have means to stock
his farm and start right Nacogdoches
Chronicle.
Cattle Shipments.
Special to the Gazette.
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