Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-12
ROUND-UPS.
The Scrub Must Go, and there is Money
in High Grade Stock.
Cattle and Range in the West in Good Condi
ton General Lives ock News, Notes
and Personals.

4ueT6 Is not STOCK or dgTlCultuIni Po-
ner in the United States that has not
urged upon stockmen and farmers the
necessity of raising none but the best
cattle, and the nonsense of breeding
scrubs or low grades. Although much
has been SAID on the subject, II Is one
that will stand a heap of talk and never
wears out. Good cattle will do more to-
wards elevating prices than any other
one thing, and poor cattle will do more
TO depreciate them. Never yet has there
been seen in the history of this country
q time when there has been so great q
necessity for the feeder 10 handle well
bred cattle than the present, and at no
time has the feeder recognized the truth
of this more than he does now.
The transformation OF the vast
unfenced prairies of the West
into comparatively small pas
lures and titled arms; the recently
developed competition of South America
and Australia in the foreign markets
with the cheapest class of meats, and the
evident policy of the government of
opening the various Indian reserva-
tions for settlement, all point to
the plain fact that the day of the
"scrub'' is over or soon will be, and
that the time is about at hand when the
energies of the stOckmen OF the United
States must be directed towards the pro-
ductlon of the best meat producing
animals the world has yet seen. A
Chicago livestock man on this subject
says:
''The old time Texas long-horn has
almost disappeared from the markets
and is only represented by an occasional
specimen in a drove of steers from the
Southern coast counties along the MeXi-
eau gulf. As a rule the representative
steers from Central and Western Texas
and the Panhandle are the product of
well-bred Shorthorn Durham. Hereford,
PoIled Angus or Galloway bulls, from
the native Texas cows, and year by year
the "yellow backs' are becoming less,
and the proportion of reds and roans i'll
every drove becomes greater. Let the
good work go on. We nope to see the
day yet when it will not be said of any
steer when sent TO market ''he is not
good enough for dressed beef aud must
lie sold to the Gamers. We have
nothing to say against the canning sys-
TEN. That has really been great
blessing to the cattle owners of the
West and has enabled them to
market hundreds of thousands of cattle
an get something out of them, which,
though little, was so much pure gain as
without the 'canned meat outlet those
same cattle would not hive been worth
killIng. Still we take the ground that
the United States cau no longer afford to
raise cheap cattle. Land is becoming
too valuable, taxes have to be paid, the
great overland trails are no longer open
with the unlimited amount of tree range
all around. In short, cattle now cost
money TO raise and as the consumption
of canned meats is almost entirely in the
old world and Gamers here ere COM
PEELED to buy their cattle at prices that
will enable them to compete in the Euro
pean markets with the five-uollar-a-
head Gamer of South America, the
only solution of the problem is to raise
less cattle and make what are raised
"choice to prime. This can be done
only by breeding, and breeding INTEL
ligently. 1t is not our desire or inten-
ton to advance the claims of any par
ticular breed or pedigree. Those di-
rectIy interested can best do that; but
our columns will always be open to cor
respondents seeking light and to Others
DESTROYS of i'm parting Information to our
renders.