The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-02
ONWARD, UPWARD.
Coming "OId-Time" Cattle Bus
mess Considered a Certainty.
C0WMEN TALK IT AND FEEL IT.
Fort Worth Market-The Exceptional
Advantages offered Small Stock
Farmers-Sales OF Texans in
Other Markets.
Short Talks-Personal.

Mr.. J. D. Stevens Of Sturgis, S. D., is
stopping in the cattle center for few days.
His visit to Texas is for the purpose Of
looking around, with view of purchasing
some Texas feeders. mir. Stevens expresses
himself as very much encouraged with the
present outlook for revival OF the odd
time cattle business" In speaking of cat
tie in his country, he says they are gener-
ally in good condition, having passed
through the winter in good trim, with few
exceptions. Where the ranges were over
crowded they did not fare so well. He is
pleased with Fort Worth and says he likes
Mr.. T. T. D. Andrews, manager of the
Home land and cattle company in this city,
bought o. Mr.. L. D. Swearingen, manager
OF The Forsythe cattle company, 2O0O head
OF one-year-old steers for July delivery,
paying $40 per head. This herd of cattle
has been ranched in the Panhandle for
years, running in Childress and adjoining
counties, and is considered the best herd in
that section.
Mr.. Burke Burnett arrived in Fort Worth
yesterday from his ranches. He says the
recent rain WAS Just the thing, will bring
out grass, and worth much to cattlemen
everywhere, as it was pretty general
Since the establishment of the Fort
Worth packery 1t is becoming apparent to
farmers of Tarrant and other counties in
Texas that they have here at home mar
ket, not only for all the hogs they may
raise, bat that there is also being opened
up market for all the good fat beeveS and
hogs they can raise on their farms. Every
one knows that the large cattlenan with
his thousands of head Of cattle is gradually
being driven further West and North by
the steady encroachment Of the man with
the hoe" and his ranches cut up into small
farms Each one of these farms Is, or
n do 1.an mob in ttoa nj mr.
rather q small stock farm-not exclusively
for cattle, but for hogs, sheep and horses
also.
Every farmer owns, or ought to own
few head Of cattle and hogs for his own
use, and raising few head in addition for
the home market is d safe and profitable
way of oisposing of his surplus grass, hay
and fodder. This is done in the North and
East and there is no good reason to doubt
that it will become general in this part Of
the country. Some practical farmers main
tain, and with good reason. they cannot
afford to sell the surplus hay of their
farms, and some even claim they cannot
afford to sell any kind Of provender from
the fact that it is exnausting the soil
without any compensation in return, and,
On the other hand, that if they feed all
their surplus hay, grain, etc, to stock on
the farm they not only obtain fair returns
for their stuff, but thereby retain all the
eIeulcHIS WHICH ~ W tu-
rich the soil from whence it came.
Now, one reason why the farmers of this
section have not paid more attention to
stockraiSing on small scale heretofore is
the fact they have had no reliable market
to look to, especially for their cattle.
They, not having carload for shipment,
have had to depend wholly upon the local
butchers and spectators for a market,
which was, to say the least, not altogether
encouraging. But now all this is changed,
by the building up of home market here
in Fort Worth by the packery. which is
slaughtering daily a limited number of fat
beeves, and the demand is increasing and
soon refrigerated beef will be shipped over
the vast territory, and with the rapid de-
velopment of the country, and the efforts
being made to cut up the big pastures and
turn into small stock farms. the farmer
will become more interested in this branch
of the livestock business, and this may be
made feature in the beef supply Of this
part OF this country at least, and if proper
attention is paid to grading the beef sup
piled ought and will be far superior to that
usually dealt out over the block by the local
butchers.