Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-26
Cnttle Notes.

developers and milk producers in
all the fodder list. 1t is not
credit to our experiment stations
that the region and limit Of its
cultivation is being 50 slowly as
certained by farmers.
Cattle receipts at Kansas City J
last week, 36,453 head, were 1O,727
larger than any previous week this
year. They we're the largest since
the first week in November, 1891.
Receipts week before last were 49,
647 head; the corresponding week
last year, 25,087, and in 1890, 49,
O68.
An authority claims that the
market for poor canning cattle
this year will be the most unsatis-
factory in years. He bases the
prediction on the theory that the
foreign stocks of canned meats are
excessive, and that orders will be
small until the stale stock can be
cleared from the shelves.
The Omaha market has been re-
ceiving a number of cattle from
northwestern New Mexico. The
returns to shippers have been very
satisfactory, and local papers re-
port that several thousand head
will go to that market during the
season. Cattle in that section are
in good fix, and the range is fine.
Fred Roth informed us, this
week, that, from the 2,100 sheep
which he sheared in the spring, he
got 12,500 pounds Of wool an av-
erage of about 6 pounds to the head.
This wool, at 12g cents per pound,
brought him S1,565. This is a
fair example of how the sheep
business pays in New Mexico with
intelligent management. Roswell
Register.
From various sections of New
Mexico reports come that rains
have fallen in the past two weeks.
In the southwest the range was
very dry, and to date the fall has
only suficed to relieve the distress
full condition, but the prospects
are good for abundant rains during
the season. In the central western
portion of the territory about the
same conditions prevail In the
southern and central portions of
the Pecos valley there has been
an abundant rainfall lately, and
conditions are all favorable; in the
upper portion of the valley there
has been some rain, but not enough
to be satisfactory to the rangemen.
In the northeastern portion of the
Territory the ranSc is good, and
there has been some rain lately,
but much more is needed to make
conditions favorable all around.
In the northwestern corner the
range is good and there is no com
plant of scarcity Of water. In
southern Arizona there has been
some rain lately, but not enough
to do much good, and the outlook
is very distressing; from the
northern portion of the territory
comes less complaint, but there is
nothing TO rejoice over in the sit
uation. Stock Grower.
The statement is made, based
on facts, which viii hardly be
called in question, that the NET
weight of fattened steers in Great
Britain. is today double what il
was two hundred years ago. In
the early years of the eighteenth
century fattened steers in London
and Liverpool markets at the age
of five years netted on an average
only 80 pounds. Fifty years
later this weight was reported al
4S2 pounds, and within the past
ten years il is placed at $50 pounds
1t is likely, though, that if there
is any change in the average
weight of fat steers in the early fU
ture il will be IN the other diree
ton. In the general disposition
to increase the size of fat cattle
feeders we're for some time inclined
to 20 TO an Improbable extreme
The earcasses of choice beevel
we're made too heavy and the steeri
, kept to too great an age to secure
the feeder a safe margin of profit
. The tendency in the past few year
has been to market cattle at al
earlier age, and to reduce in con
sequence the average net weigh
; of the dressed carcasses. Their
: is a medium ground in all thes
things, and the tendency Of tn
times is to get at a common sens
: and practical solution of all sue
: problems as this. That solution
:. we believe, is now being reached
+; and the steer of the early futur
/ will be the most economically pro