Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-17
R0UND-UPS.
No Necessity for America Importing
Cattle or Horses from Europe.
Hog Raising in Texas is Profitable Where the
Best Beef Goes, and the Kind Texans
Eat-Texas as Horse Country.

Hog Raising in Texas is Profitable Where the
Best Beef Goes, and the Kind Texans
Eat-Texas as Horse Country.
The market is very well supplied with
| good native horses and brood mares, and
they command fair prices
= The cattle market locally, like it is
elsewhere, is remarkably dull, no sales
being made other than few COWS
to butchers.
Col. d. R. FAINT, one of the leadin g
cattle raisers in the southeHA, part of the
state, was among the visiting, cattlemen
in the city yesterday. =
The cattle trade between Texas and
Mexico is quietly but rapidly growings
and it bids fair to develop INTO large
proportions. Texas is also Stripping.
| large numbers of hogs to Mexico, aIlH
this will no doubt lead to more attention
being paid to swine breeding here.
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The importation of horses and cattle
| from Europe to the United States is an
unnecessary luxury. America to-day is
| horses in the world, and it is about time
that the fad of importation should cease.
1t is blood that commands the money,
and that is what America has. There are
| now more inferior registered cattle in
Europe than ever before, and these are
| sold to Americans on the strength of their
registration and not on account of their
| good qualities. The tables should be
turned and America should sell to Eu-
rope blooded cattle.
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II will be but few years, said
well known horseman to a GAZETTE re-
porter yesterday, 'untiI Texas will be
as much noted for her horses as she is for
her cattle herds to-day. Horsemen in
this state are giving more attention to
improving the breeds of their horse stock
than ever before, and the result is alreadyF
beginning to be seen. 1t is not an un-
common thing to hear of bunch of ma
tive Texas horses beng sold as high as
$40, while only few years ago it was a
rare thing to hear of more than S25 being
paid. Our horses are commanding better
prices in the North than they formerly
did. l mean good horses, not the scrub
stock, and they can stand the Northern
climate much better than the Northern
horse can stand our climate; in fact it
agrees with them -
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Since the law requiring hogs to be con-
fined went into effect in Texas the BUSH
ness of hog raising has materially de-
clined, but there are still q number of
farmers who not only raise enough to
supply themselves with bacon and lard,
but also raise enough to ship to outside
markets. These farmers have made
money in this business, and will con-
tinue to do so, and proftting by the ex-
ample set number of others are con-
templating engaging in hog raising on
large scale. There is no country on
earth better adapted to this industry
than Texas is. The animals thrive, be-
ing almost exempt from cholera. and
they can be fattened and got ready for
market as cheap if not cheaper than in
any of the Northern states. Mexico ofzs
fers a fine market for fat hogs, and TeSsfs
should reap the benefit Of it. The bRrk-
shire and Jersey red do better in &fsas'
climate than an other breeds. azssss
"We live in the best stock raising
country in America - said a cattleman
to a GAZETTE reporter yesterday, ''and
there is just as good beef cattle raised and
fattened here as you can find anywhere,
but it is a lamentable truth that mighty
little first-class beef is sold over the
block in our markets. Your butchers,
as general thing buy cows, while the
beef steers go North and East.
Why is that the case?" asked the re-
porter.
''Local butchers watch their chances
and buy cows as 81 90 and 81 .75per hun
dred, while no man, unless he has stolen
the animal, would sell fat steer for
anything like that price. The result is
that people right in the heart of the cat
tie country are paying for inferior beef
just as much as people in New York and
Chicago are for frst-class cuts ana
joints. -
SAN ANGELO FAIR.