Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-05
ROUND-UPS.
Valuable Points and Suggestions on
Liberal Cattle and Hog Feeding.
The Increased Demand for Mutton in the
United states-A Deadly Cattle Dis ~
ease in Colorado

A Dakota sheep grower says there is
no standpoint from which sheep culture
can be viewed in which it is not more
profitable than any other stock.
Charlie Coppinger, for long time
member of the firm of Hatcher, Woods &
Coppinger, has severed his connection
Herewith on account of his health and
will go TO Colorado for SIX month to re-
cuperate.
Properly managed, good brood SOW
can be made one of the most profitable
animals on the farm. Two good filters
of pigs can easily be secured, and with
good feed and care some increase at least
can be observed in a short time.
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Speaking of live stock shows 81. G.
Adams, q commission man of Chicago,
says that they are the biggest thing to be
had for the section in which they are lo-83
Gated, and they advertise a section OF
territory all over the country as well as
anything else can. Besides this they put
farmers and stockmen to work improv-
ing their cattle, and in the end the bene-
fits are almost lncalculable.
The appetite for mutton is growing in
| the United States, and it is rapidly get
! ting fastidious, too. More and better
mutton is now demanded in nearly all
markets, and the demand will be more
urgent next year than it is this, will keep
| on growing, i'll fact, for years to come.
! The more good mutton put upon the mar
ket the more rapid will be the growth OF
1 appetite and demand for it. Mutton is
now and probably will always be the
most profitable meat to grow, at least
until bristles and hair are worth as much
| per pound as wool.
The farmers of Texas have no earthly
excuse this year for importing their meat
and lard, as has been the case hereto
| fore Last year it cost less than 10 cents
| bushel to raise corn in Central Texas,
and the present prospects indicate that
the crop will cost less than cents per
| bushel this year. At this figure 1t Is
| possible to even feed cattle on corn, and
make it profitable, while to feed it to
hogs would prove very profitable bust
| ness 1t is estimated that the farmers OF
McLennan and adjoining counties pay at
| least half a million dollars annually TO
the North for bacon and lard that could
be made at home with little trouble, and
| a great amount of hog and hominy
|
some mortgage Il Trade Review
80
Last Monday while a bunch of Texas
steer cattle of the longhorn variety were
being unloaded at Kansas City a four
year-old with horns that measured four
feet across from tip TO tip, took into his
head to give his limbs little exercise.
He dashed through the principal street IN
the city, believing as he went, with two
COWBOYS following on their ponys close at
his heels endeavoring to lasso him. The
crowds of people on the street divided IN
front of the gentleman from Texas IKE
the waters of the Red sea under Moses
rod. and his bovine majesty had clear
run until he turned a corner, where he
ran into a number of people, knocking
them down but inficting no serious in
iuries. After long chase the animal
ran into lot of old iron boilers and was
captured.
From several portions of Colorado we
have received complaints during the past
two weeks of small bands of cattle dying
suddenly and mysteriousiy from some
kind of poison weed, so-called, found
growing in the mountains. These COM
plants are from Gunnison, Montrose, Ell
Paso. Douglas and Jefferson counties.
We have sent for specimens of the fatal
woodland will have it analysed. In
eFsnhfson county the damage has been
Eff1e greatest. The fatality is more
s marked lust after rain has fallen.
Death ensues within five minutes after
symptoms are discovered, and the only
relief thus far introduced is in bleeding
at the ears and tail, which shows that
the circulation of the blood is defective
} Some stockmen think that the poison
: weed is a small blue flower re-
} sembling the wild larkspur. 9th
ers believe it is a poisonous vine
of the ivy variety. One gentle
} man in Gunnison writes us that
he has an idea the trouble is caused by
the cattle eating incidentally red ants
D which are very poisonous Others men
| ton the wild parsnip. we fancy IL Is a
! parasitical formation on the plant which
E does the mlsceief, but of course cannot
determine until the true samples are
sent. In the meantime the bureau OF
E animal industry and the state authorities
a ought to get to work and devise means
whereby the trouble may be abated. II
e certainly demands attention - Field and
Farm. =
r The following from the Omaha Her
aid will apply to Texas as well as 1t viii
to Nebraska:
can experienced veteran farmer OF
Iowa, L. s. Coffir, says that it is de-
plorable fact that while we live in tilf
great corn belt not one farmer g
twenty gets half the benefit of his corr
erop. What is true in Iowa is doubls
81 true in Nebraska Many are killing thu
I'll goose that LAID the golden egg by SELL
ing their corn, and at such prices thai
there is no profit in it. These certainly
4, do not get half the value OF their crop
: and in addition are depicting the sol
rapidly toward the point where the ele-
ments of the soil are exhausted.
Neither do our farmers who fatten cat
tie usually get more than half value, 70,
in many instances there are few If an!
hogs running with the cattle to utiliz