The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-02-11

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priced 1900 or 400 pound horse.
This gives grade of great value
for any other development desired.
The sire has given massive frame and
great bone and the dam sound bone
and feet, good constitution, great en-
durance and adaptability for our eli
mate. This is grand foundation on
which to rear other structures.
The grade mares can then be coup.
led to any other breed according to
the taste or the requirements of the
breeder.
Some horsemen are so enamoured
of the virtues and fine properties OF
some special breed that they despise
the so.called clumsy draft. But the
man who handles horses for the
money there is in them, as well as for
their love of the animal, must raise
what he finds most profitable,
Next week 1 may have something
to say about coachers and trotters.
The stockmen were the recipients of
much advice at the recent convention
and many of them being in need of it,
are no doubt quite grateful.
They were told, not for the first
time, how much the profit of their
business depended upon an improve
ment in the quality of their stock and
feeding them on something more fat.
tening than weeds and frost cured
prairie grass.
AS the day of the long horn is past,
so is that of the old time range stock
man. He was a power in the land
fifteen or twenty years ago, but as
the man with the hoe came in he
went out, and his place is filled by the
stock farmer; that is, the man
who raises cattle in connection
with his farm and grows feed to de-
velop and fatten his cattle. This is a
great improvement over the old range
system, but is far from perfect. Few
stockfarmers provide enough feed, or
feed it as economically as their best
interests demand, and few provide
shelter, which is almost the equivo-
lent of feed.
Governor Hogg gave them solid adj
vice about marketing their produce.
The necessity for packeries is urgent
and would do much to revive the
cattle industry.
But somehow cattle men do not COM
bine and, encourage such enterprises in
Texas, though they endorse the bene-
ficient influence of the Big Four.
There is another bright spot on the
horizon of the stockman's future, and
that is deep water on our coast. With
a deep water harbor capable of adj
hitting sea-going vessels alongside
it's wharfs, and their receiving COM
plete cargoes, Texas would soon ex-
perience revival in the cattle trade
few have dreamt of.
Cattle weighing about 1000 to 1l0O
pounds are carried by steam to Eng
land and there sold at wharf, where
landed for $125 to $3.50.
New York to England including
freight, insurance, feed and attend.
ance is from So to So per head. Thou
sands Of these cattle were raised in
Texas. What did the Texas man
get for his cattle? Perhaps $50 to $25
Who got the balance? twas divided
up amongst railroads and middlemen
The cattle had to be shipped north
and east by rail and every man that
looked at them enroute, had to share
in the plumber.
With a port of shipment at our owl
door where the cattle can be landed
at cost of few dollars, it is reasona
BILE to expect that the raiser will save
some of the money now gobbled up by
an army of middlemen. The cost o
shipment to Europe will be LITTLE
more than from New York, but ever
if doubled, there would be big mar
gin left for the producer. Some may
fear that the long voyage would de
preciate the value of the animal, bu
experience has proved that wher
proper precautions are used in stall
ing and feeding, the cattle gain
weight during the voyage.
The next few years will see Texa
in the lead as a fat cattle state, as sh'
now leads in cotton.