Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-04

the beeves are not putting on fat
so rapidly as was expected early in
the season. This fact will be ap-
parent when the returns from mar
ket are received. Fortunately the
greater portion of the extensive
holders of that state are in easy
financial circumstances and can
hold over their unripe cattle. As
a result the marketing from the
northwest is likely TO fall many
thousand head below anticipations
of July. AS an illustration it may
be cited that one company having
twenty-five thousand .matured
steers have given orders to ship
but four thousand. The cattle
are not suffering but they are not
prime and will be given another
chance.-Cheyenno Journal.
Here is the way that an Ohio
farmer got the best of hh bull
81 put on him q lnuzzle, such as
are used to keep horses from bit
ing or eating their bedding; COW
cred the lower part of it with
cotton flannel which l kept wet
with chloroform. In about ten
or fifteen minutes the bull con-
cluded to lie down and take nap.
While under the influence OF the
anesthetic, to such degree that l
could touch the eyeball without
his Ainching, / sawed OFF his horns,
dressed the stumps with dntisep-
tic cotton, took off the muzzle, and
put ring in his nose, all of which
was done in twenty minutes from
the time 1 entered the stable, and
that, too, without any suffering.
The bull soon got up, minus his
horns, with jewel in his nose,
and probably never will know how
| it occurred. 1t cost the price of
three ounces of chloroferm, but /
did not have any tied legs or men
sitting ON handspikes."
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk
has achieved another victory in the
interest of the American farmer,
and in the line of his official duty
as head of the department of the
government representing the vast
agricultural interests of tho coun-
try. 1t is in gaining admission
into England of American mutton
on the hoof. Heretofore all sheep
shipped from this country TO Eng
land were required 10 be slaugh-
tered at the port of entry within
ten days of arrival. 1t made no
difference. whether the market was
good or bad, the sheep had to be
killed, often entailing much loss.
Henceforth it will be different.
Sheep may be landed and sold to
butchers or farmers and either
sent to the slaughter or pasture
in any part of the kingdom.
Those who contend that there
are as many cattle on the range
as ever before should take a run
through the range country of Tex
as, Colorado, New Mexico and Ar
mona. They can in this way be
convinced that over one-half OF
the cattle that could be seen three
years ago are gone.
A Pecos River stock raiser; who
ranches below Fort Sumner, but
has Travelled over a considerable
portion of San Miguel County
lately, says that unless unusually
good rains prevail soon, ard the
season is in every way favorable
over three-fourths Of the cattle in
county will die before spring.
@. Hearn, Of Faiview, Sierra
County, started last week a drive
of 600 cattle for Texas. He will
have a hard time getting them
across the plains, to the east Of
the Rio Grande, water and grass
both being scarce.
A sale of 1900 New Mexican
sheep, to be gathered principally
from focks in San Miguel county
was made by a Las Vegas firm tc
Utah buyers last week. The pri-
ces were not made public.
Mutton sheep are becoming
more and more in vogue all oyel
the United States as time goes by
Americans are becoming greater
mutton eaters, as the butcher billi
5 in many cities testify.
l G. P. Jones, Of Chama, had 5.
: calves on the Denver market which
5 sold at 1892 per cwt, with an ay'
erage of go lbs.
= w. j. Hill, Of Fairview, starte,
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