Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-11-22
Cattle Notes.

oSNiCtolg y VI dGilCulluEti ny pEoC-
lamation issued Sept. 2G, 1892, has
officially declared that the United
States is free from the disease
known as pleuro-pneumonia,
Now, therefore, l, L. Bradford
Prince, governor of New Mexico,
do hereby rescind all previous
proclamations issued from this
Office relative to pleuro-pneumo-
mia, and the said quarantine here
tofore established by said procla-
nation is hereby dissolved.
L. BRADFoRD PRINCE,
Governor of New Mexico.
A Georgia cattle, dealer has re-
covered nearly 5000 from the
Western Onion Telegraph compa-
ny, damages IN a suit for failure
to deliver a message to another
cattle dealer, asking the price of
cattle. He had several head of
cattle on hand and, owing to the
non-delivery of the telegram, he
held them several days, and final
ly sold them at loss.
The value of the beef products
exported during the first nine
months of this year is S25, ,4S3,949
against S28,92O,774 for the same
time last year, while the value of
the hog products is S68,681, ,405
against 59,716,193 in 1891. The
value of the cattle exported was
27S62,206 against S21, ,287,112
last year.
Seven hundred head of extra
beeves we're recently sold by @.
Alexander of Paris, KY, to the
Eastmans, of New York, for ex-
port to London and Liverpool for
the Christmas markets. The lot
is said to have brought $65,000.
Last week j. A. Lockart brought
three cars of cattle into Las Ami
mas from New Mexico, and drove
them to the Indian claim on the
north side of that town, which he
had leased. He will feed alfalfa
during the winter. Other cattle
men are making arrangements to
drive cattle to Las Animas, and
all the alfalfa in Bent county will
be bought before next spring.
J. r. Lincoln, superintendent
of the Antelope Springs Cattle
company, Valencia county,
states that since the recent rains
cattle are picking up in flesh and
there is plenty OF grass and water
When cattle are seen licking
each other it may usually be taken
as an indication that they need
salt. Not having it, the briny
exudations from the skins of their
companions attract them, aud the
habit of licking each other is form
ed. BY this means large quanti-
ties of hair are taken into the
stomach. Being indigestible, this
forms into hard balls and becomes
a source of disease, and sometimes
causes death. A want that is as
easily supplied as this, should not
be neglected.
One of the cattle companies
which has suffered the most heRvi-
ly this year in southern New Mex
leo is the Las Animas Land &
Cattle Co. of Sierra county. Out
of $4,000. head of cattle this unfort-
unate company has already lost
over 60 per cent. by death. OF
those left, they have shipped out
of the country all that could walk
to the railroad, and of the remain
der they do not expect to have 3
per cent. left alive next spring.
Low prices for cattle are of ad-
vantage in one direction-they are
a factor in driving the scrub out
of existence. Every time that
prices drop the value of we'll bred
stock is emphasized.
Western ranchmen are coming
to be the best buyers of thorough.
bred bulls. Our smaller stocl
farmers must keep awake OF in 4
little while they will see bettel
stock coming in from the ranges
than they viii produce.
The United States has abou
seventy-one sheep for every 100 o
population, while Australia ha
over 5000 to every 100 people. Th'
latest leturns show very littl'
difference in the shearing capae
tiles of animals IN the two coun