Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-07-04

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by the Fremont. Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley railway between August l5 and No
vembcr % This season the company cx
poets Ia handle $500 ears Of outgoing
stock, besides large quantities shipped
into the country from the southwest
The sheep men Of Montana are com
mcncing TO brand their sheep aud record
their brands. The brand used is n small
one and IL put on either jaw, nose or fore
head. Heretofore. most men have marked
their sheep with paint after shearing but
such marks are easily removed or altered
and brand, suck as above indicated, j.
safer and more satisfactory.
ST. Paul Live Stock Journal: A ship.
mcnt of seventeen cars of fat cattle, mum
herring 353 head, was made from Nels
Morris feeding barns this morning
billed through 90 European ports The
total weight of the cattle was as, 3iC
pounds. an average of 1877 pounds per
head. But one more shipment remains in
the barns and IL will he sent out at AN
early date.
United States Inspector Albert Dean. OF
the department OF agriculture, Is In pos
session of information that there are now
$4,000 head of cattle on the Cherokee strip
whence the cattle men were expelled last
that from 10000 To 1900 cattle are held on
the south bank of the Canadian river wait.
ing for the water 10 rccede 30 that they
can be sent into the forbidden land.
The reports that Kansas would produce
G9,000O O0J bushels of wheat this year are
rather misleading, as Secretary Sdohler
who has just made trip through the
states that In some places the yield
would be fifty bushels per acre. and in
Others would not pay for the cutting The
acreage will reach 3,00J.0g0 acres and il is
estimated that there will only be "A three.
fourths crop or 10 bushels per acre.
Denver Record: speaking of the con-
diiion of the eastern hog market. the sec.
retary of the Anglo American Packing
and Provision company saws that mo-
startling advance need be looked for The
hog market is about - per cent i'm adj
vance of the bottom of 1890. There is. how
ever. an immense supply of provisions ON
hand, and, according To- this authority. If
not another hog should be killed this SUM
sssssr the supply Is plenty large enough TO
prevent any marked advance before fall"
The Cincinnati Price Current in its sum
mary Of the weekly crop report says Sea
sonable conditions in the west the past
week have favored leading crops Good
progress In corn, much yet quite back
ward: some regions have excessive mois-
ture, but the stand is generally good and
encouraging expectations of satisfactory
outcome. There are disappontments in
various results in other instances. Con,
siderable spring wheat area needing more
moisture. Oats prospects unchanged ;
very variable.
An expert wool grower from Boston who
was engaged in an examination of some
North Dakota wool belonging 10 the Prouty
Live Stock company, of Grand Forks, n.
D., Is authority for the statement that il
was the finest lot of wool he had seen any
where, and was surprised 10 find il in that
state. The sheep business, as well as
some other enterprises that viii soon be
developed there, will have equally great
surprises for those who do not yet know
that North Dakota is a great state, with
wonderful possibilities yet in store.
a Fargo, n. d., dispatch says that Pro
fessor Stoekbridgc, head OF the faculty of
the state agricultural college: received a
telegram from r. Nj. Prouty, of the State
Agricultural society, dated Ora, stating
that 200 sheep had died out OF flock of
l SEQ, near Niagara, in Nelson county, and
he believed they had been poisoned by eat
ing some weed. DR. Himebangh, veterin-
AIRY OF the college, left tonight To make a
post-nortem examination, and Professor
iottify Will ustSrtulue tue nature OF tnc
weed if the examination evidences such to
he the cause of death.
During the winter packing season TO-
s34,cO0 more hogs were marketed than the
smallest number marketed during the same
period within the past ten years, and
5,0oi 900 more than the largest number
marketed during the same season in a like
period of years. The following table
gives the numocr Of hogs marketed in the
United States for ten years ending March
/, 1891: