Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-02-28
FARMS AND CATTLE
Timely Hints and Happenings to
tlusbandmen.
Cuttings OF General Interest 10 the
Farmer ana Stockman-Impor-
tant Notes.

Dalrymen we're In session Of Berlin,
Wis, last week.
According to the last census there arc
more dogs than sheep in the country.
Cities are not included in the count
Cattle in Montana are reported TO be
In such good condition that they could
live upon themselves for weeks IL the
! weather was bad.
Reef & Nichols, cattle buyers at
Leadyille, Colo, say that they expect
to pay &c per pound on the hoof for
beef before June /.
There are said to bo about $1,000
head OF cattle on Buffalo Bills 1900
acre ranch located about three miles
from North Platte, Mob
At Chicago Wednesday Lab and 1,
534-pound dressed beef steers sold at
s5@525, and LAG and l,467-pound
shipping steers brought IS. i5@5.45.
Good TO choice cows and heifers are
higher than they have been for years.
This week they were selling at SO. 00@
3.75 and medium TO fair at 81. 5O012. 90
in Kansas City.
The best lot OF beef cattle shipped
from Coleman, s. d., in ten years, were
eighty-four head OF 3-year-old spayed
heifers They were shipped by Il. ii.
Overall to Kansas City.
The farmers who raised beets for the
Grand Island, Neb., sugar factory re-
ceived an average price OF 81. 90 per ton.
The average yield was fifteen tons and
the cost OF production about S25 per
acre, leaving profit OF s35@40
Nine western states In 1890 produced
1s6, 900, 900 bushels OF wheat They
were Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan and
Kentucky. This represents popula-
tion of 90, 700, 900 people consuming
wheat at the rate OF about 90, 600, 900
bushels per annum, or over 5000, 600
bushels per month.
A few years ago an Iowa man named
r. Lehfeldt left home with only q few
dollars in his pocket He engaged in
sheep raising in eastern Montana, and
accumulated over SIS, 900 cash. He has
since returned 10 his Iowa home and
purchased an SIS. 900 farm, upon which
be will winter his Montana flocks, that
arc 70 be marketed in Chicago in the
early spring.
VIM. Sheeden, OF Seely Creek, Ia,
says in letter TO the Chicago Droyers'
Journal, that lump-jaw is an expansion
OF the sulmaxter, or lower jaw. and fire.
quently oh the upper jaw. IL starts
from the nerve or marrow just opposite
the teeth, whether above or below
Since 1874 he has slaughtered fourteen
head Of 2 and 3-year-old steers and
heifers, which he considered incurable
after the jaw had expanded. The dis
ease, he thinks, is hereditary, from the
fact that all the cattle he killed were
raised from bull that was afflicted.
Special crop reports TO the Cincinnati
Price Current shows the condition OF
the wheat crop TO be all that could be
desired. The growth is less rank than
a year ago; IL is better rooted as rule,
and is in such form and condition as TO
withstand adverse conditions OF freez-
ing and thawing better than in 1890.
In some districts there was more or less
damage from bly,, but it does not cut
much figure IN the general situation.
ConsiiefaDry farger. IrB recent cUfd
weather has not done much injury, and
the possibilities OF good crop are fiat
tering.
Senator Shumway, in defending the
charges preferred against the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange, declared that
from his own experience ne could say
that any shipper or farmer could sell
his own stock in Chicago IL he so hoose,
but while they considered that so cents
per head for selling cattle was ex-
orbitant they were ignorant of the fact
that until the last few years the uni
form price for selling in all markets
was SO per head for cattle, and that
even to this day in New York City
there are firms that charge $3.50 per
head.
AT Beatrice, Neb., Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, will be held the first
meeting of the Improved Stock Breed
ers association OF Nebraska, which will
be followed on Friday by meeting Of
the Short Horn Breeders. The speakers
of these meetings will be composed Of
all the leading live stock breeders OF
the state. 1t should be- attended in a
body by the farmers and stockmen, as it
Is golden opportunity to listen to dis
cussions of topics OF vital interest and
Importance to them. The meetings
close with grand banquet given by the
citizens of Beatrice.
At recent farmers institute in Wis
consin the following points for sheep
growers were brought ont by practical
farmers. A farmer who has been a
sheep grower for any length of time
has invariably been success finan-
cially. Mutton should be the first con-
sideration: wool the second; the market
Is asking for better class OF mutton,
and is willing to pay q better price 70,
It, Upon the ordinary farm four centr
per pound will pay the cost OF growings
and all more than that Is profit. The
Merino and Down breeds are both good,
but the highest profit goes to the credit
OF the Southdown.
The Chicago Live Stock exchange is
receiving more than its share OF abuse
from would-be farm journals since the
Illinois legislature has determined to
make an investigation. The most libel
GUS attack comes from the Progressive
Farmer, in which 1t characterizes the
exchange as the ''meanest Of all mon
cfolies," and likens 1t to . ''combina-
tion Of plunderers worse than the MUIR
rel gang, the James gang or that Of
Rube Barrows" The Chicago Drovers'
Journal, however, takes the abuse phil
osophically, and remarks that the ex-
change will probably be alive and -four
ishing when It's misguided, misin-
formed and venomous traducers have
gone to their final reward. Its record
will bear investigation.
A substitute for the senate bill which
was passed last September, providing
for the inspection of live cattle. hogs,
sheep and their carcasses and products
when intended for interstate commerce,
.as recently resurractcd by the house
committee on agriculture. There are
two important differences In the two
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