Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-16
RANCH NOTES.
Steers Feed to Grow. Poverty Feed
 Makes Poverty Hogs.

Live stock is frisky after the rains. Sc are the stock men.
 Arizona cattle are assessed this year at S7.l5 a head, while in Montana stock cattle are assessed at S15 and steer cat tie at SIS.
 Omaha the first six months of 1890, re- ceived 3l0O0O cattle, 1000 and 74,OOO sheen. being an increase of S7 900 cattle and 10000 hogs, and a decrease of 5,oOO compared with the corresponding period last year.
 Arrivals of live stock at Kansas City for the first half of 1890 figures up about 64I .OOO cattle, 4,lO5,000 and 1000 sheep, or an increase of 12S, 900 cattle, 10 600 hogs and 115,OO0 sheep compared | with the first six months of 1889. Chicago Breeder'a Gazette says: Elk porters age again buying cattle quite l freely. During the week ended with ! Saturday last no less than 5lO car loads or about 5000 head, went into their hands for direct shipment alive. The range of prices paid was S3.S5 to S3.6O for bulls and stags, and S3.90 to s.75 for steers. in only one instance did they pay less than S4 for steers. The sale at 1 tl.SO
 Portland Oregonian says: Beef cattle still continues to come in from CaiIfor- nia by the train load. A. b. Deane, oi Nevada arrived here yesterday with q train load from 4. H. Johnson. To a reporter who asked how it was tha;, New | ada could send fat cattle here .. hen ii had as hard a winter in that state as VIC had in Oregon, Mir. Deane said: "1ht ] great5st numbes of the cattle being sent here from California and Nevada were bought in Southeastern Oregon ano Arizona and stall fed during the winter The winter was hard in Oregon, Wash ington. Idaho and Nerado, and the I stock cattle were badly killed off. The large steers lived through the winter and there will be plenty of beef for thl: season, but there are no young cattle to furnish supply for next year.
 The Reno Gazette says: "M. E ] Ward received a letter from E. w Crutcher, the most of whose stock rang ed in the northern part of Humboldt county, saying that the rodeos showed that he has lost fully fifty per cent oi his horses and 90 per cent of his cattle Should the above losses prove an aver age in that section it will amount t just about a clean up of the horned cat tie, fir the remnant will hardly pay t( look after.
 A noted Western cattle breeder says Breeders have passed the time wheI they aim to grow steers first and theI fatten them. They iced to grow and fatten all along the line.
 MUTTON.
 | Six hundred mutton sheep were ship ped from Round Valley (Cal) this week
 The Tulare Register says MT. Pau Newman shipped four car loads of ia wethers to San Francisco last week. Fla wethers are always good for coin anC some of our farmers are losing d gOot thing by not paying more attention t. sheep husbandry.
 Says the Butchers and Live Stocl Journal Don't let stock lose flesh during the winter. A steady growth is essen tial to profit.
 The Sheep Breeder says: We mus invent for the sheep in the United States new term; we must call 1t th' mortgage payer.
 Swift, the Chicago packer, has bough S3OO,000 worth of Texas sheep thi season.
 !, The Mountanian gives this as re cent days shearing: A crew of thirteel shearers at Clark Bros, & Co.'S sheareo , recently l45l sheep, finishing at tiv' o'clock. One man sheared 1S7 sheeI catching bis own sheep and trying th feeces. Three others got away with b each in the same length of time. The enormous wool industry iu Aus tralia, says the American CuitlvatoI has been largly stimulated by mortgag and finance companies as well as by th banks. An individual or iiIm desirin to raise sheep and grow wool iu any U the Australian countries can usuali secure capital, or at large advances O. his stock, by agreeing that the clip shaI be handled, forwarded and sold by eithe the banks.