The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-25
CATTLE AND SHEEP NOTES OF INTEREST
TO ALL STOCKMEN.
Shipments of Cattle and Market Prices =
Big Prices Anticipated Next Year
Fort Worth Refrigerator.
FORT WORTH STOCK JOURNAL.

i'll fine shape in that part of the state.
?. G. Gallagher of Chama, Colo has
just received 700 head of steers from
Texas, and will run them in Utah.
The Swan Land and Cattle com
pany of Wyoming has branded 5000
calves this year, which is evidence
that there are yet some cattle in that
territory.
The best cornfed steers in the Union
stock yards, Denver, the past week,
only brought $3 per hundred, while
dry COWS went as low as $1.65. Grass
fattened sheep brought $3.50 per hun
dred. Hogs $4.15.
N. M. Tabor, a son of Senator Tabor
of Colorado, was in Amarillo last week
to buy 500 steers. Our information
does not extend to giving the price
paid.
Tom Andrews, of Andrews & Ora
ham, is out West on cattle deal. He
is also delivering to the Home Land
and Cattle company at Merkel, 500
yearlings, the price paid being about
1925.
Roby (Fisher county, Call: Tom
Trammell of Sweetwater was in town
yesterday to 1000 yearlings to be sold
to parties North. He gets $4,000 for
the herd, and they are well worth it.
Col. r. G. Head, of Denver, tells
the New Mexico Stock Grower that
cattle are looking splendid in Texas,
and he believes with those who an
tlcipate big prices for all kinds OF
steers next year, a belief based on the
most thorough knowledge of the sta
tistical position of cattle on the range
and in the corn belt of any man in
the country.
Cattle, if they are to be kept in
good flesh, must be protected against
northers. This may not be possible
for the ranchman with 10000 cattle to
care for, but it is easily practicable for
the stock farmer who has 500 or less
cattle to put On the market in early
spring.
Now, the way this is done in Ne
braska costs so little that it is not
worth while counting. A long row OF
stakes cut along the banks of the
nearest stream, is driven in the ground
at suitable spot, and wheat straw, fit
for little else, is piled up against these
stakes, thus affording not only q good
wind break but also giving the stock
something to MUNICH. AS some OF
these breaks are 500 or 600 yards long
and shelter hundreds of cattle. In
some parts of Texas, it is true, we
raise no wheat, and therefore wheat
straw is to be had, but the suggestion
is for the benefit of those counties
where wheat is raised, and it is chiefly
in these coun ties that stock farming
is carried on.
With a refrigerator at Fort Worth
in operation that will consume 200
beev5s a day, good market will be
provided all through the winter and
stockmen must supply this market
with Texas beeves. Cattle that 60
into winter in good older can be kept
fat by proper protection from MOI theirs
and with little feeding on cotton
seed, sorghum, Johnson grass or silage.
The economical methods Of other cat
tlemen must be adopted in Texas, if
we would reap the lull benefit OF the !
advantages that nature has given us.
COLORADO CLIPPER.
A. B. Robertson shipped four car
loads of steers to Chicago Sunday.
Rix Bros. bought 800 head of stock
sheep from Tom Power this week pay
ing 500 per head.
H. w. McKoy sold in Chicago last
week 4S steers, 1Ot5 pounds, $2.95; Al
steers, 1902 pounds, $2.95; IA steers,
9S3 pounds, $2.95; AZ steers, 99l
pounds, 1926.
The Llano Cattle compony sold in
Kansas City last week the following
cattle: 24O COWS, o95 pounds. 1925;
"a heifers, SIS pounds, 1925; % heif-
ers, SOB pounds, $2.15; Is steers, 90S
pounds, S2.l3.
]. S. Mccall has just completed a
tank on his ranch in Fisher county
that will afford him a certain water
supply in the dryest seasons. The dam
is 450 feet long, % feet high and 50
feet thick at the bottom, and now
holds body of water that will swim
horse mile up the draw.
NJ. 7. Hall & Co. have finished
fencing the large pasture they re-
Gently leased in Lynn and Lubbock
counties, and NJ. T. Hall says they
now have $4,000 acres of the best
grass land in Texas to lease for
pasturage. They have assured
plentiful sup ply OF water by putting
in two immense tanks, and the ranch
is well supplied with shelter.
SAN ANGELO STANDARD.
Thos. Brennad shipped two double
deck car loads of sheep to Chicago,
Tuesday.
Tom Powers bought 700 sheep from
Peter McCullen this week at 500 per
head.
s w. Moore, of Comanche, is in
town and wants pasturage Tor looo
steers.
TT, Goethel for several wears the