Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-18
ROUND.UPS.
The POlled Angus Cattle One of the
Best Breeds for Texas Growers.
Interest in the Hog Question spreading-The
Benefits Arising from Feeding
Bran to Cattle.

The refrigerator scheme of which so much has
been said and written, appears to nave dled the
death and OF present there is little or no nope
that anything viii come of it in the near future.
The time viii come though when the prevailing
conditions viii force the operations OF reirlgera-
tors in Texas.
The Texas Stockman says that the hog boom
is still and that Texas VIII be great hog
state vet. At the same time it cautions farmers
not to Overstock. Oversize cEing IN hogs would
bring about the same results Jnat oVerStocklnS
in anything else would-a tendency TO ueP press
prices; but if farmers viii begin to cure thelr
OWE bacon and make their own lard, 1t Will pc
q long time before Texas is overstocked with
hogs.
Hogs are in demand in the Dallas market, and
they are scarce. Stock hogs, ltls,SaId, meet WIN
readily command cents. It is 70 doubt true
that hogs are scarce all over Texas, winch 1acI
may in great measure be attributed 10 the
large shipments to mexican markets. any ol!e
having q surplus of hogs can ind good markets
at any main shipping point.
The Fort Worth butcher market continues
quite dull. and the cattle offered are more than
sufficient for all demands. Butchers continue 10
pay 20 cents for cows, but do not want beer
steers. Sheep are selling at from to 234 cents;
Calves sell at from 81 so to 81, while, on account
of the weather, there is no demand for hogs Tor
butchering purposes, though there Is good oe-
mand for hogs for shipment.
No sheen breeder or wool grower, having any
experience viii attempt the Improvement OF his
flock with a cross-bred ram or q grade, no mat
ter how good an individual he may be. This has
been proven in every department of the breed
ing business, and is too well known 20 pc as
puted by any one cOnversant with the facts OF
experience. Fancy theories and ephemeral ef-
forts are plausible but not exact, ana Will NOT
be s6orne out when put to the test.-LRural
EsEorld.
WI. Jeffries of Cuero has become interestea
in hogs and wants to know If it Will do % titrn
hogs on sorghum when small, and number O
other things connected with the hog raising Dus.
| mess. He writes to the Stockman and SAYS
! - am one of these old fogy farmers WhqSlASs
| always had my smokehouse IN ST. Lol1ssgst ~
! is too far off I have concluded to raise more
! at home and buy less. l have Mas hogs
! with good prospects for twenty-five For thirty
/ more between this and fall, and am glad 10 say
most of my neighbOrs have caught the conta-
! gion. One year ago you might nave YislLeo
! twenty farmers without seeing three pigs, bu1
now three farmers out of four have from two &c
| ten hogs. l have half-breed Berkshire male,
| and can hardly keep him at home long enough tC
! serve my sows.'
! In arecent lecture before the Wisconsin dairy
| mem association. Professor Robertson OF On
tario agricultural college said: Last summer one
| of Canadian dalrymen, feeding engineer
| COWS upon fodder corn as tood supplemenGafA
! to scant pasture. furnished milk to a cheese fac
| torv In course of time he provided a supply o.
| bran, and by the end of the first week after III
! found he was credited with enough
| extra milk to pay for bran con
| sumed 1.-TWO and One-half pounds per COW pc
! ,.
profit for that week. The grass ofearly summe
| is also too watery and weak in nutriment for it
bulk to be fed alone to the greatest advantage
! a judicious allowance OF bran or gram Slmllar q
| those mentioned Will increase the milk suppl,
and fortify the cows system for the large
Il production during the midsummer, fall ant
4 winter.
| A heifer has no rings on her horns until she Il
two years of age, ana one IS adGed each yea
thereafter. You can therefore tell the age OF
cowwith tolerable accuracy by counting tn
1zisaes on her horns and adding two to the mum
EsbeT- The bull has no rings, as rule, until n
five wears old To tell his age after that pc
sfSri0d add five to the number of rings. The bes
,sp wav to tell the age is by the teeth, winch IS
n course the only way with pOled cattle VIVA
are called milk teeth gradually disappear /
Il front at the end of three years, the secon
pair of permanent teeth are well grown, at lou
| years the third PAIR, and at hVe the 1OurIh an
| last pair have appeared, and at this time IN
central pair are full size At seven years a oar
line caused by the wearing OF the teeth appear
on ali of them, and on the central pair circula
| mark At eight years this circular mark appear
I on all OF them, and at nine years the central PAL
begins to shrink and the third at eleven: Ate
this period the age can only be determined b
! the degree of Shrinkage generally. AT hftee
years the teeth are nearly all gone.
7 w. Holmes of Colorado City is an enthusi
| astic admirer of the POlled Angus breed {
cattle and in a short note to the Farm and RANG
! has the following to say OF what ne terms III
''black, woolly beauties.
after an experience of two years with sixty
n five POlled Angus bull calves ana Iwehcy-IoI
heifers am prepared to say that they I'LL til
! bin more completely than any cattle 1 eve
| handled in Texas or elsewhere. These calve
were shipped from Missouri in the early winte
and were taken direct to our ranch IN Crosn
county where they Jared as did the natives.
the end of the present time we have lost but tw
head from all causes. They were not sick dul
ing the time usual in accllmatlng, and u
deaths were attributable to loci
causes. They carry more flesh tina
anv cattle We have, are not terrified {
frGzen nv uorther, are kind and gentle
and a great part of their glory consists in the
being Without horns. After trying shorthorI
and other approved breeds do not think w
ever buy any cattle as breeders except the blaei
woody beauties
TO sTogK2KN
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