Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-11-21

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receive SC mauy special shipments
Of western cettle. The cowboys
9 9 all wanted to see the fair and went
to Chicago with their cattle.
: Six weeks of liberal feeding
; should put thrifty sheep in good
condition for market, and sheep
should always be well fattened
before sending to market.
A good sheep is one that will
pay its own expenses with wool;
will pay the money it cnsts il ship
ped to market and will. pay a profit
If kept for increase.
With storage reservoirs and a
thorough irrigation system, the
states west of the Mississippi river
will be in a position in a few years
to laugh at the drouths that peri
odically visit these sections and
cause 30 much hardship and suffer-
ing.
w. A. Denny accompanied to
the city last night a shipment of
fifteen cars of cattle which we're
loaded at Magdalena and billed
for Omaha. He returned to Sill
yer city where he will load a train
for the same market. -Albuquer-
que Citizen.
Let each ccttleman of the wolf
infected district of New Mexico,
compute the loss he sustains an
nually, by the ravages of these
pests, then if each and every one
would lay out half the sum of such
loss In paying for hounds and
hunters, the wolf nuisance would
be a thing of the past in a relative
ly short time. Concerted action
would bring the desired end.
Live stock rrising improves the
soil and increases the production
of good crops of grain and grass,
and these crops RE much more
%pro6tably marketed through the
very medium which has helped
you to produce them than if sold
direct in their own original form.
Besides this the profit in feeding
stays at home instead Of going
into some other mans pocket.
Receipts of all kinds of live
stock at the Chicago yards for the
month OF October were over l.
200,0 head, or 100000 more than
arrived during the month of Oct.
1892, and about 5000 more than
the combined receipts at Kansas
City and 100000 more than re-
ceipts Of all kinds of live stock at
Kansas City, Omaha and ST. Louis
for the same month.
The Wilcox Stockman, Arizona,
says: Reports from the round
ups of the great cattle ranches of
the northwest report a very slight
increase in the herds. The calf
crop is small and the herds have
suffered from many causes. The
result will be more felt in the gen
eral market a few years hence than
just now, but everything points TO
a smaller future supply of cattle
from this source than we have had
in the past. The same is true of
the southwest.
For fattening an old COW that
has lost her teeth, chop up fine the
clover hay, timothy or corn fodder
that you give her. Put it in a
large tank or kettle and pour boil
ing water over it. Cover the tank
until the hay and fodder are thor
oughly softened and steamed. ,
Sprinkle cornmeal over this steam
ed food at the rate of about six
a day in two feeds. Give
besides plenty of chopped roots or
pumpkins. I
Governor Hughes, of Arizona, {
in his annual report treating of .
the cattle interests of that terri /
tory, pertinently remarks: "The
industry must always re-
main one of the great industries
Of the territory; those engaged in I
it are among the most intelligent !
and deserving citizens we have, :
and / would recommend the en- !
actment of such laws by congress
as will secure to all stockmen on /
the public domain legal tenure of
The lands they use, at the same {
lime guarding against any monop- {
ply. A large portion of the terri I
o.ry consists of dry mesas which !
baan uaad az etoob ~o !