The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-29
k Hills papers kindly copy.
General Stock Notes,

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Mr.. Comstuck lost valuable mare
from bots, last Monday. This makes
the fifth animal he has had die within
year, besides losing Lafayette, his i'm
ported Percheroh stallion quite recently
also.
James V. Dewitt, the sheep man,
came up from Creston this week. He
says ranchers are all enthusiastic over
the rain making" question His flock
never looked better, although he says he
has not yet fed a ton OF hay this
winter.
j. P. Cannon has three colts at his
Grow creek ranch that he Is seriously
thinking OF fitting up for the Worlds
iar. They are beauties to look at, like
all the Norman breed gentle as kittens,
and weigh respectively: Joslyn, 1850
lbs; Harrison, 100 lbs; Young Dakota
1850 lbs. Pretty good for grass fed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Register.
Some cowmen have an idea that 40
their cattle manage to exist they are
doing pretty well, and yet it is well
established fact, recognized by all intel
ligent feeders that a thrifty growing
animal Will take on flesh at less than
one-half the cost OF one that has been
half starved up to the time it is put on
regular feed Northwestern Live Stock
Journal.
Nothing seems more probable than
that in Il few years all the horse cars in
cities will be replaced by electric cars.
Horses will be done away with, adding
inca!culah bly, to the cleanliness and con-
venience OF the streets. But the horse
trade will not suffer on that account.
As many will be needed as ever. Amer
leans are becoming rich rapidly. and
there is an increasing demand for fine
carriage and saddle horses.-Cnster
Mail.
A. c. Beckwith, the big stockman OF
Wyoming, is feeding on his two ranches
about 1000 head OF cattle, which re-
quire about sixty tons OF hay per day.
Nearly 1900 head Of this number are
being fed for beef to put on this spring
market, and they consume q little over
one half OF the hay used daily. Itis not
Mr.. Beckwith's intention to put his beef
cattle on the market until some time
during the summer. The feed these are
now receiving supplemented with a
couple OF months OF grass in the spring
VIII pun ChSlA III pIliIic COIiulUlOn lOf Gl6
beef market and they will be ready at a
time when corn-fed cattle are nearly ex-
hausted and purely grass fed cattle are
not lit for market. Newcastle journal,
The Stock Growers journal Of Miles
City. Montana, has the following about
a device to clear the ranges Of snow Tor
the moving and grazingei sheep: There
is no use in saying that there is no
chance for advancement in the methods
OF the range. Things do move there d.
in other Industries as indicated by III,
TACT that George r. Collins, Of LAYING
sten, has just completed four snoy
plows to be used by G. H. Worland, q
the Musselshell, the patentee Of the d.
vice. The plows aie constructed near,
the same rs the ores used on locomt
tives, and are intended to clear III
ranges ior the moving and grazing
4 sheep = the venture proves snccessfu
Mr. Worland will have Il largo numl,,
81 them construct cted. 4. "a