Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-20
LIVESTOCK NOTES.

The Chicago Droyer's Journal has the
followne
Colonel Wilson came 10 Saturday from
trip. He suys the Alton h doing a
good livestock business at present.
Greer county is rapidly coming 10 the
front rs a raiser of stock leading. per
haps, any other county In the Panfon-
die
Il. T. Black Of the Rocking Chair
ranch is In the city for q few days He
Is en- route home from the Austin con-
vcntiou
Captain A. g. Evans aud Jesse Evans
huvc purchased several hundred head
Of and 4-year-old hcotps IN Brewster
county VT j. W. kokcruut
W. L. McAulcy Of Maverick. Tex,
who has hecn here for d cOplc Of dnys,
| has left for the r. T. H. 60 make
arrangements for pasturogc.
One of the reasons for the scarcity of
| cattle Is the cutting short Of the calf crop
| 10y large numbers Of COWS hcing Included
In the sales and shipments OF last season,
Mcssrs. Greenwood have sold to Hor.
! RS Bros. aud Childrpss 1000 head Of
beef aud stock cattle 90 be delivered Ia
/ April The price obtained was So per
| head
Stoclmcu and farmers around Ennis
4
/ ripe for the market Not quito so many
! cattle are being fed Ia that vicinity as
last yenr
Mr. Edwards, cattleman Of the Crock
nation came iu saturday, He says the
| winter has been hard one. hut he has
had no losses, and that the Creek graz
ing grounds viii pasture as many head
of cattle as last year.
i'm county Is taking considerable iu-
tcrest I'M tie raising OF hue honpNcsh.
Many iiue horses are being imported from
Kentucky and others states. which pro.
ducc bloodcd stock aud the result n
that the improvement is becoming notice
able. The annual Hill county horse slow
is quite a factor ia producing this re.
suit.
a correspondent writes from Coppcrs'
( Cove: I'VE have had n splendid winter
here and stock Of All kinds M la FINE
shape. But little feeding has boon don,
up TO date. aud there are plenty of fa
cattle now on grass. that have not Ind &
mouthful Of any kind of feed this winter
Hogs are scarce
The following ahipments Of Texas cat
dc were on tho St Louis market Thurs
day. II. Greathouse Decatur. tw
cars of cattle: Gates x King, Decatur
two cars OF cattle; Woody n Rush, De
cutur two cars of cattle; H. j. CogAn
Mcrkol. cattle; Saunders n Prcssnnl
kerryile. three cars of cattle II. X
nluliin Pottsh9ro, : cars Of cattle W. II
I hddlomuu, Wentheriord, hogs and eat
, tle j. w. Corn n Co. Weathcrfort
J nine cars Of cattle; Mcfarland * Mac
) doN, Wcatherford cattle, NJ Is Pul
d muu a. Bro, UvOldc, six cars of cattl,
Thos. b. Lee Is again IN The saddl,
I having just completed a business trip d
I eighty days constant travel ia Texas
Ne Says; THE climate there is MOI
: delightful the people courteous. Kin
) aud exceedingly hospitnble Farm land
e are cheap plentiful, easily cultivate
= | and surprisingly productive. and are bl
y ing settled up very fast Texas Is fee,
ing more cnule than usual Corn 20
r 80 cents. meal and hulls very source an
i high. Texas VIII ship fewer range Ca
, he direct TO market than usual th
year
d.. The Union stocky0rls of this clty on
. IN first class shape TO handle all "
, this spring MIR. Wnrilaw, the seer
:. ury says le expects the ru
y viii be about twothrds that Of lal
year. WHOM the ran was o.
. mprccedentcdly large one. The follow
y ing were Saturdays receipts ut II
< yards Two cars Of cattle from Walla,
u Il Mccoy, Cuero, consigned 10 Niece
Il / ~ ANhfAWhNiAs ANNiANtlH ne NllNA WV W
y of fine horses en route from McPhersC
= to Amarillo.
J. Chicago has received an average
10000 cattle. 1890 hogs and o2l
sheep per days for the first fourtec
commecinl days of this month, or nc Il
rate of 25i4OO cnttle; $4,000 hoi
and go. $40 sheep for the entire mont
says the Chicago Droycr's Journal. Ca
tie receipts for February, 1893, will :
J., about 10000. larger than the Fcbruni
VI average for the past fifteen years. an
arrivals Of sheep about 10000 large
c while the number of hogs Will ho
least 100000 smaller than the Fehr
y AIRY average for the past fifteen year
"a Largest February receipts for iifto'
e years were as follows: Cattle, lS9
Ie 2GT.O13. hogs, 1891. 033 S73: Shoe
h. 1891, 1921 Smallest February p
b. ceiuts for fifteen years Cattle, 1871
S1.052: hogs 1857, 3d3,Sil: sheep. lS1
ie 9SSt5. Only three time during d
a past fifteen years have ihc cattle .
ceits fniled 10 increase over the precc
n ing February Of each year while Il
hogs and sheep about third of the Tin
~ receipts decreased one year cOmpar'
IA with another While receipts of ho
for February, 1891 reached nearly O3
rs 900. there WAS only one other fehrua
&. IN the history of the trade when OY
N 100000 arrived md as long ago
4, 1875, 50710l arrived, being tho thi
y. ! largest February receipts on record lo
IA ruary. 1871, only 2hi932 We're recordp
,g and as long ago as February lslS, 81
m 700 arrived