Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-09-13

Sanitary Board, vice Richard
Hudson, resigned.
The Rabon Range snys that after
the shipments Of the present sea-
son are over there will DO fewer
cattle left on the ranges Of Texas,
New Mexico aud Arizona than for
several years, a fact well worth
considering in connection with the
future outlook for cattle.
The dehorning commission ap-
pointed by the Ontario govern
ment is busy drawing up its report.
The commission hnds in favor of
d~ehorning, and the report states
that the cruelty Of the practice has
been exaggerated by the opponents
Of the horn depriving operation.
The report will be printed soon.
Canada's sheep trade with Great
Britain has been a failure this sea-
son. Shippers have sustained
heavy losses and are now dropping
ont of the market altogether, so
the season is practically over
The shipments to date amount to
1893 sheep, against 25,739 for
the same period last year.
In many portions of southern
Arizona the stock industry is safe
for the winter at least, while other
localities yet lack sufficient
rain to make the situation an easy
one. There is still hope, however,
that the near future will bring
sufficient rain to place all sections
beyond want in this respect.
Reports from every part of the
Northwestern range country tell
of good grass, finely cured, and
the prospect for winter is excel
lent. Water is getting scarce at
many points, and some cattlemen
are having comfortable trouble
both in gathering and shipping.
Daggs Bros. went TO Arizona
ten years ago with 2,100 sheep, q
camp kit and a summers grut
stake. Today they own 10000
head of sheep, averaging 8 lbs
per head. They say that Arizona
offers pasturage for a million more
sheep.
1t is said the two largest speci
mems of cattle in the world are al
Clinton, Iowa. The monster ami
mails are named Cleveland anC
Harrison. Cleveland weighs 4,04(
pounds and Harrison 1000 pounds
They are twins, thoroughbred
Durhams, and were born in Jaspe.
county, Missouri. Cleveland is Il
hands high, IL feet 6 inches long
3 feet 2 inches across the hips,
feet through the chest and fifteel
feet around the heart.
It is impossible to tell just nov
how many cattle have beer
shipped this year to the ranges il
Montana, from Texas, Arizona anC
New Mexico, but it is evident tina
the number will be greater thar
ever before. Last year was a we
one in the spring and there wer,
shipped from Montana ranges owe.
100000 fat cattle, two and a hal
times as many as were shipped
the previous year. This year ha
been most favorable for pasturag,
and ranching, and while the mum
Der of cattle shipped will probabl.
not be so great, the grass is grow
and will keep till next year, and i
1898 should be a bad year 70.
grass, what is left over will fattel
a large number of steers.
Full blooded cattle may be hac
at very low prices now and any in
telligent farmer VINO has the pas
ture and other facilities for hand
ling them can do far better witt
them for beef than by attempting
the lesser lights. With these ma,
run a full herd of selected grad
COWS to be kept for a year or tw.
for breeders and hen dried NJ
fatted and sold for beef, thei
places being taken by other
younger but of similar character
We cannot longer run our bushes
by machinery much less permit
10 run itself and grow up as tn
brush of the timber, as it can O
may. A small herd of pure blood
will make more money with niue
less labor than any effort that ma
he made with the scrub, com
they whence they may.
A correspondent Of the Tucso
Cfor u-rifinO from Oalahsaa.