Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-07-05


4 of salt where the cattle can help
themselves is that there Is no dan
ger at any time Of .heir eating too
much.
At the sale of the entire Ayr
shire herd of the late Thomas
Brown of Montreal Canada, six
bulls were sold at an average Of
Sl66; thirty-three COWS we're sold
at an average Of Sl49. Heifers
and calves averaged sos. This
brings the average of Sal for the
whole herd
The big herd of cattle belonging
to Col. Tussler, of Clayton, New
Mexico, arrived on the river east
of the Picketwire, Bent county.
last week, and were piloted across
the river and through the, rming
country on the north by that "old
campaigner", Mac Dean. The
herd is bound for the Powder river
country, Montana, and numbers
2,7OO.
Louis Huning, Of Los Lunas,
has shipped 600 head of cattle to
@. E. Trask in South Dakota. Mr..
Huning's ranch is located on the
Rio Puerco, in Valencia county, and
he reports no grass on the range and
great scarcity of water. Consid-
ering the condition of the country,
the want of food and water, these
cattle look fairly well. 1t is the
opinion of Mr.. Huning that if rain
does not come soon large num-
ber of cattle in central New Mexi-
co will die for the want of water.
At the experimental grass sta
tion conducted by the government
at Garden City, Kansas, they have
been trying several hundred new
varieties of grasses, with view to-
finding some that would make good
meadows and pasture lands in the
region where but little rain falls
and irrigation is expensive, and
sometimes altogether impractica-
bic. The experiments have been
attended with marked success.
One of the grasses recommended
with particular fervency is the
brome-grass (bromis inermis), not
long ago introduced from Europe.
This viii make a good pasture
nine months out of the year, or it
will cut two crops of hay without
irrigation and practically without
rain. This might be we'll worthy
of trial out here. What we want
is an experiment station to make
such tests as these for us. Stock
Grower.
Our export beef trade is a mat
ter that has grown up almost who'll
ly within the past fifteen years,
but in 1890 it amounted to more
than $4,000, 600 for live cattle, and
about an equal sum for beef pro-
ducts. If we were now compelled
to find market for this surplus
within ourselves, it would serious
ly upset prices. The more we can
increase this market, the better
our prices will be for all cattle.
But TO increase 1t, especially the
expectation Of live cattle, we must
produce cattle Of a better quality.
Not 6 per cent. of the cattle now
received at our principal markets
are Of the quality demanded for
export. If there were few more
Of the proper class, more would be
exported, and the entire market
would respond to this relief with
higher level of prices. Field and
Farm
Over fifty thousand cattle have
come north by trail up to date and
reports from along the route in
northern Colorado say the herds
are in very fine condition. There
are about twenty thousand yet to
come unless the owners change
their minds and ship from Colo
RADIO points or sell TO Kansas pas
ture owners. The years drive
added 10 shipments, will make the
movement for 1892 greater than
for a number Of years and yet the
south has many more to spare.
Especially is this true Of New
Mexico and Arizona. Texas, in
most parts, can take care Of her
cattle this year, but room must be
msde somewhere in 1893 for this
years calf crop Whore is the
leading question now agitating fh0
minds Of southern cattle growers.
Undoubtedly Wyoming sill fall
heir TO many thousands Of head as