Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-26
Notes and Personnls.


A. W. Hudson. q prominent cattle
man of Colorado City, was i'll the city
yesterday.
c. F. Estell has sold to W. F. Fuller
one yearling Holstein bull, the price paid
being 500.
1t is the best plan in sheep husDandry
to breed that kind of sheep that will give
the best mutton.
The hog has lifted more mortgages
than he has gates, and more than all the
Gotten ever raised.
J. r. Shannon of this county has sold
TO Mr.. Catheron twenty head of I'M
branded yearling colts at SI3 so per head
and thirty head of stock cattle at good
prices.
Col. George H. Dodson has at Polk's
stockyards a carload of blooded cattle
and number of thoroughbred Poland
China hogs, which were shipped here
from Tennessee.
From all sections of the country comes
the news that large delegations of cattle
men will attend the Fort Worth meeting
next month. They will all be welcome
and well treated.
4 few roots added to the daily ration
of your fatteninE sheep will cause them
to eat more hay and grain and make you
profit both on the roots and the extra
amount Of hay and grain CONSUMED.
The winter season may be regarded as
over, and the range has been left by it
in fine condition. There may be few
squalIy days in March, but they vii! not
be severe enough to hurt either the cattle
or the grass.
Ben Hackett on Monday bought one
carload of fat hogs from J. L. Covey of
this county paying 81 80 per 100 pounds,
and on yesterday bought carload from
J. w. Mediu OF Roanoke for s. 80 per
100 pounds.
To tell the true value of a roadster,
use him in the mud; a heavy road will
test the endurance OF a horse as well as
anywhere. 1t is no trick for some horses
to make good time over smooth, hard
roads, that will give out when driven
through mud.
MIR. Phillip Hale, for SO long con-
nected with the Fort Worth Live Stock
Journal, is now i'll ST. Louis, engaged in
the pu blicatiou Of a first class livestock
daily paper, the National Live Stock Re-
porter. It gives complete cattle market
reports, and is splendid record of live
stock transactions in st. Louis.
Gov. Warren has issued q proclama-
ton revoking all other guarantees here
tofore made. and establishing the dead
line for Southern cattle. All Southern
cattle entering Wyoming will be required
to unload at Cheyenne for inspection.
This inspection will be pade without cost
to shippers.
The good prices which sheep are now
bringing will tempt those who have old
ewes which should be disposed of to retain
them for breeding purposes. Sheep pro-
duce less wool and an inferior quality
after four years old, and the decline in
value continues in breeding ewes to SIX
or seven years. Bucks mature later by
from one to two years. The wise flock
owner culls out the weak ones and keeps
q selected flock in full vigor, as these best
repay food and care.
Two well-known Powder river valley.
Oregon, stockmen stated recently to q
representative of the Baker City Demo-
crat, that out of fifteen hundred to two
thousand head of cattle owned by them,
their losses would not exceed twenty head,
and they did not anticipate that their
losses throughout the entire winter would
exceed that amount. They positively
declare all statements of their losses are
simply rumors not entitled to belief.
Less than 10 per cent. of the receipts
of live cattle at the Chicago stockyards
during 1890 would grade 'good to
choicel'' Here is a text for a sermon
six columns long on the advantages of
raising well-bred cattle instead of
'Fscrubs,' - but we forbear. If people
will raise three-cent cattle instead of
fve-cent cattle they have no license to
kick at the Big Four or anybody else
when they can only get three cents when
they come to market. AS one sows so
let HIM reap Breeders Gazette.