Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-12
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etrio Chavez, of Mesilla, we're
stolen last week. Six have been
recovered.
In raising paying cattle, use
nothing as a sire that is not one
of the best beef breeds, and use
none of the breeds unless it is the
type which the yards demand.
1t is a foolish IDEA That a breed
ing animal must needs be better
because It is imported. Many Of
the best strains Of cattle have been
further developed since coming 10
America.
The largest single shipment o.
live cattle that ever left an Amer
ican port, sailed from Boston or
the 18th ult. There we're 1,169
head of steers averaging 1873
pounds each.
THE OUTLOOK FOR CATTLE.
Texas Lice Stock Jou7ioL
The cattle market for Che past
few months, but more especially
for the past two weeks, has gFsat-
ly discouraged cattlemen generally.
The market changes from bad to
worse and has declined to a point
at which cattle must be marketed
at an absolute loss. This is not
all; neither is it the worst feature
in connection with the depression.
Cattlemen not only have no assur-
ance that the market will ever be
better, but on the other hand they
feel that there is no guarantee that
the decline in future will not even
yet be greater, aud that they may
yet be asked to part with their
cattle at a heretofore unprecedent-
ed and unheard Of decline. In en-
tertaining such ideas MS this, which
are at least in measure justified
by the experience of the past, it is
but natural that cattlemen should
feel discouraged and blue.
The Journal is disposed to take
more cheerful and hopeful out
look as to the future. 1t believes
that the present depression is not
due entirely to combinations and
monopolie5, but is mainly attFibu-
table to an unprecedented over
marketing. the result of the
drouths,. short crops and general
change in the methods of handling
cattle that is now going on in the
. business. Another and perhaps
, the main cause of this great over
| marketing is the desire so gener-
ally prevalent among cattlemen tc
, unload, and either quit the bust.
, ness entirely, or cut down the
t numbers heretofore owned and
, grazed on their respective ranges
For these and various other causes
greater number and a much
larger percentage of cows, calves
and other young immature stock ii
) being marketed than ever before
The drouth prevailing in Ger
g tain localities in Texas, New Mex
3 leo and Arizona has caused tn,
/. shipment Of hundreds of thousand
{ of stock cattle to Kansas and th,
Indian Territory that would other
n wise have been kept at home TO
j breeding purposes. These cattl
! only have temporary ranges wher
they are, and must, regardless o
flesh or the market, be shippel
out before cold weather comes.
Corn through the feeding state
is worth too much to justify feed
, ing to cattle. The price of feed i
Il the feeding states will hardly d'
cline enough this season to max
= it desirable OF within the reach {
= feeders. In fact, the threatene
= failure Of the corn crop may an
1, perhaps will, cause a still furth,
Al advance in this commodity.
o. The drouths, crop failures an
IA other unforeseen and unavoidab
n occurrences are now working
great combined hardship on ca
ig tlemen but these are only temp
u u rary, and will certainly be followe
So by good seasons, plenty IF grai
OF and abundant corn crops Tn
10 unloading process and gener
ne feeling Of dissatisfaction must alt
ne soon pass away and the businei
p settle down TO a more regular au
or satisfactory basis, after which th
- = wholesale oyermarketing that
,ts now glutting and running the ma
IT. ket viii cease and prices viii a
nv vance to a figure that win leave
he fair profit to the producer. Go,