The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-22
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General stoc Notes.

oooSAV iSOtes
Fresh mutton and hmb keeps longer
than beef
Belle Fourche horsemen are aliye.
Already they are out with running
purses for the ciruit meeting next fall.
Every range stock assoc1a ton in the
Black Hills should be represented at the
Rapid City convention February goth:
Well bred bulls on the range are just
as essential to success, as they are in
large breeding establishments. The
best results can only be secured by using
good bulls.
Watch the market and you will learn
that 1T is most profta BILE to raise early
lambs. Good grade Merino ewes with q
.Rell hred nllt -is-
the Hills should get togethe rand appoint
delegates to Rapid City convention Of
stock growers to be held February 2oth.
Protection is the object. i
A breed OF sheep that attracting
considerable attention now, because Of
it's adaptability to hilly countries ls the
Scotch chevlots. A cross with tins and
Merinos is favorably commented on
A comparatively new device in che way
Of safety milk bucket is a metallic AFFAIR."
OF somewhat spherical shape, with q
funnel-like receiver aboye, provided with
strainer. The whole thing may be
kicked over or entirely inverted, without
spilling drop Of milk.
A. E. Cannon and his son, John z.
Cannon OF Spearfiish left last Monday
for the east, to buy some full blood draft
stations, probably percherons and stires
Their present. premier stallion tied
Dunham's world-renownd Brilliant at
the New Orleans exposition, but they,
no doubt. desire to introduce new blood
and it Is safe TO predict something extra
good viii be purchased.
The mares with foal have a double
duty to perform. They must eat en-
| ough to keep their own bodies well nour-
ished and then enough more to keep the
foetus growing. See that they get what
they want. Their appetltes are capri
| cious. We must know them. Give
them salt rgularly, a piece of nice turf
now and then, an apple. a potato. or
/ whatever they like. 1t pays. North
western Live stock Journal.
"a sheep, a /. crossbred eve belonging
4 to Mr.. Jenn King OF the Merino dis
| trict OF Victoria, south east Australia,
gave birth to no fewer than six lambs.
The night was cold and wet, which may
possibly account for none Of the lambs
being found alive in the morning though
oil were perfectly formed and had ap'
parently breathed. It is not altogether
uncommon for long-wooled eve to
produce three lambs, bat double that
number at a birth is undoubtedly " a very
remarkable occurrence, of which We do
not rem ember OF Il previously authenti
Gated case in the colony
with few exceptions, says the Lon
j don Live Stock Journal, the sales o
pure bred cattle this season lin Great
j Britain) are passing off very slowly, and
4 prices are disappointing. There arr
several reasons for these results low
prices for commercial stock. the lat
harvest, the prev yalence Of pleuro, larG
4 herds being ,oversto ocked, and the alb
! sence OF foreign buyers We feel conf
q dent, however, that the trade will agaiI
s revive, and, in the meantime, youn
j. breeders have splendid opening 70
/ rIiaying the foundation Of new herds an.
: buying good cattle cheaply from well
I bred and healthy stock.
4 The term combing woods applies +
y hong woods capable d being stcombed
. Tor drawn out straight BY machinery
e which, however, has been 80 improve
\ that Merino wools of less thar thre
inches in lengthf and short wools {
i South Down grades, are now combes
i The fibers are then spun into worste
], yarns. Long Merino woods, thone
< combed for many purposes, are calle
. delaine woods. Lincolns, Leicester
J cotswolds, Oxford Downs and the
g grades. produce long eombing wools, ,bu
y as stated, woods oi various short VOC
n ed'' and amediun.wo ooIed breeds q
81 now combed, es Hampshire-D Down
y Dorseta, ShropshIres, &c. The finer Il
d fleece, the shorter may be the star
n tkat i IN be coinhed.