Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-07

growers association will hold It's regular
annual meeting.
The Bennett brothers of Fort Collins went
on to the Chicago market last week with a
consignment Of lambs, which brought 6. 80
Keep your cows in good humor 1t is
said that cross or worried cow gives milk
lacking in richness. and a less amount,
then when she is in serene frame of mind.
ANY kind of strong soap will be found eff
aclous in destroying lieaS, lice, etc, on ami
mails when they are washed with strong
soapsuds, which operation, however, should
be done on warm day or in a warm room
From the latest reports a heavy cattle
loss can now be looked for throughout
Western Colorado. Naturally the worst is
expected so soon after the last two storms
and the reality will not be as bad as many
stockmen now fear. The lesson, however,
is made more pronounced that the only
proper way is to run good grade cattle
rather than twice the number of poorer
animals, and have sufficient feed for them.
The big cattlemen have leased all the
small reservations in the east end of the
Cherokee outlet, and fer the past ten days
train load after train load of cattle have
been unloaded there. They already have
more than be pastured on the leased land.
and their evident intention is to let them
drift over into the outlet, thus defeating
the wishes of the secretary of the interior.
Western cattle sent from Chicago are now
being sold in Switzerland. Last week 100
We're sold and they gave the most perfect
satisfaction. Zurich took thirty, Basic,
Berne and st. Gale each twenty, and Win
terthur and Brug each ten head, and the
beef was pronounced to be excellent in
quality. It was sold off at the usual selling
price, about II cents per pound, and proved
Ir1nI ~ n IN ia Hnrpgrnf no.
created by the news of the experiment be-
ing made.
1t is said that Chicago packers have sold
pork on contract that must be made this
month and are afraid to show how badly
they want the hogs. One pork packer sug
gests that Armour is in that fix, and seeing
the hopelessness of buying hogs TO fill con-
tracts, he stopped buying hogs and turned
to hammering the pork market, and is
quietly buying the product as fast as the
weakened holders are shaken out. Mr..
Armour is a great man, and like the great
Snowman, BarnuM, he can fool the people
when they know he is doing it.
AS soon as the flock begins to drop lambs
start lamb flock. ADD to it every day as
the lambs come until you have about fifty
ewes and fifty lambs in this flock, then
start another. BY the time you have
gotten two of these filed out and are ready
" SldTG u lulTu you Can THROW nuluDtF one
and two together Then number three and
four can be thrown together. In this way
you can keep the new lambs separated from
the older ones until they know their
mothers and are strong enough to go with
the older ones. This win be in few days,
as they get their legs" astonishingly quick
when they get plenty of good, rich milk.
1t should evident to every dairyman that
constitutional vigor is one of the most es-
sential things in dairy COW. 1t does not
follow that dairy cows should be coarse in
structure; often the most finely organized
are the most vigorous, but dairymen should
always avoid delicate cows and deli
cate calves. Calves that are difficult to
rear should never be reared. The first
thing that should be considered in selecting
COW, or in choosing a breed, is vigor Of
constitution. Whenever q breeder diScov-
ers that his calves are lacking in vigor ne
should change his course of breeding,
whatever may be the reputation of the
strain that he has been producing. Nothing
in dairy COW can compensate for the lack
of vigor.
The sheep business is taking a boom in
this state that it never before witnessed.
The mutton sheep seems to be the favorite.
among feed farmers, and the desire is 70
keep a few good, rather than large lot of
poor ones. There is one danger attending
this great demand for sheep by farmers
who are comparatively ignorant as to the
selection and care Of sheep, which is cal
culated to do an almost irreparable damage
to the industry, and that is the introduction
of scab. The sheep that are brought to
this state come from every point attainable,
and are shipped in cars, which possibly
have carried scabby sheep without having
been previously disinfected. This is the
only danger to be feared in the introduction
of SO many foreign sheep into the state.
There is profit in the mutton sheep, tariff
or no tariff, and there is plenty of room for
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