Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-08-23

and still the range IS over stocked.
When everyone acknowledges
that a well-bred beef animal makes
more pounds for the same feed,
and sells for more per pound, why
do some people keep right along
breeding and growing the common
ones? This kind Of management
is a very heavy tax on a mans re-
sources.
There is money in horns, and a
cattlemen lately remarked that
instead of dehorning his cattle he
he was going to breed them 50 as
to grow long horns. He said that
on stepping in a jewelry store and
inquiring for a pair Of horns the
jeweler asked himmore for a first
class pair than an ordinary steer
is worth.
There are some who claim that
there is no longer any money in
raising cattle. This is a mistaken
idea. There is and always viii be
a good profit in cattle to those
who raise the kind aud class the
market demands, provided the
cattle raisers keep up with the
times and handle their cattle and
business as they should.
During the last two weeks over
1900 head Of beef cattle have
been brought from the mountains
to fatten in the alfalfa fields in the
Salt River valley preparatory to
shipment to California and Eastern
markets. The cattle shipments
this year will be unusually large,
and the wool clip is also surprising
the calculations of the shoepmen.
When shippers learn to send
only good cattle to market and to
regulate their shipments in keep
ing with the demands or capacity
we may confidently look for a
steadyand permanentimprovement
in prices. We may and no doubt
will eventually have a good mar
ket without these conditions being
complied with, but it will be after
the cattle now on band have been
sacrificed and the cattlemen have
nothing left to ship
The largest pair Of oxen ever
raised in KeHsington n. a., was
recently sold by II. Rowe, the
owner of them. They weighed
when dressed almost $500 pounds.
From one of them $50 pounds of
tallow was taken. They were
eight years old, and were raised
by b. +. Lowering and were sold
last year to Z. G. Shaw for S125,
who sold them to Mr.. Rowe for
$40. Twenty-Five years ago such
oxen would have brought $500.
Las Vegas is the most important
wool market of New Mexico and
the Rocky mountains. There are
in the territory about 100000
sheep, and over one-half of them
are grazing in the counties directly
tributary to Las Vegas. Thus it
can be estimated that of the IL,
100000 pounds of wool growing in
the territory at least 100000
pounds are handled and marketed
in Las Yegas, where prices rule
higher than in any other place in
New Mexico.
A goodcow should not befat, even
when not giving milk. Her sides
should appear'fat, but rather by
the deepness of her,body thanbyits
narrowness. Her head should be
small, neck thin and fat, and chest
deep. In a very young heifer it is
impossible to decide what her bag
and teats be, but an animal that
shows these points is worth saving
and trying as a COW. One that
has a round body and coarse, bull
shaped head will be worth more
for beef than for milk.
The Black Hills Stockman, pub
lished at Rapid City, S. d., says
the beef roundup has commenced
in the northern hills and the $780,
600 head of cattle that will be
shipped out Of South Dakota this
year has commenced to move.
One fact is noticeable and that is
that shippers r more conserva-
tive than they we're last season.
They are starting none but the
best and then in smaller numbers.
This win have the tendency 10
keep prices better and steadier,
There we're a million cattle in
Wyoming in 1884 There are now
less than half that number. The
Northwestern Live Stock Journal
saws that the ranOes Of TINT STATE