Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-06-27

Inc men VINO raise Feully unt
cattle for market are not kicking
about the prices they get.
N. W. Live Stock Journal. Will,
cattle values have made no SHARP
advance evidences Of gradual bet.
terment are to be seen on every
hand. Supplies are not increas-
ing outside Of a few restricted
areas and consumption is evey.
where growing larger. This
means higher prices.
The Cudahy Packing Co. has
begun to operate at Los Angeles.
Two hundred hogs we're slaughter.
ed as a starter. One trouble that
confronts the packing concern is
the inadequate supply of porkers.
Seven cents per pound for live
hogs is offered. The scarcity
ought net to last long. There is
money in pork at present prices,
aud the industry will no doubt be
very greatly stimulated.
The opening of a regular pack
ers market at Rodero, California,
! should tend TO stiffen values on
the Pacific coast, for the reason
that under a well regulated dress
ed beef system quite extensive
new outlets for beef and mutton
should be secured along the west
coast of Mexico and Central Amer
lea. The foreign population of
the southern coast cities is consid-
cradle and this element is not ia
vorably impressed with the native
supplies in this line.
Reports from the main beef pro-
ducing regions show an actual
shortage Of cattle. This seems to
be real and not fancied, and high
er prices are confidently predicted.
Stockmen and farmers should bear
in mind that when once a shortage
in cattle is established it can not
be overcome in a single season.
1t will be wise to keep some good
stock growing, and so be prepared
to take advantage of good prices
if they do come.
The big Crandall steer, "Prohi-
bition," of 5000 pounds weight,
was sold yesterday at auction for
$500, being at the rate of about
ten cents per pound. The pur-
chaser was Saratoga" O'Brien,
the well known COW jobber. What
Saratoga is going to do with his
mountain of bovine flesh is a mat
ter of some speculation, but it is
said that he purchased the steer
for a California man who intends
to use him for show purposes. Mr..
Crandall brought the steer here
to exhibit at the Worlds Fair, but
was barred out because the steer
did not have a registered pedigree.
He thinks the animal was worth
more money than he brought. He
claims that, taking into considera-
ton style, color and weight, the
steer had no superior in the world.
Chicago Drovers' JouVnal.
A correspondent of the National
Stockman claims that dehorning
cattle will result in further i'm
proving and s~weetening the flavor
of the meat. He says: "Wheth-
er or not, on the whole, it is best
to deprive an animal of its horns,
which + its natural means of
both offensive and defensive war
fare, it matters not; the custom
has been accepted and many rea-
sons offered in its behalf that are
accepted by the practical stock
man without question. Robbed
of its horns, like the warrior strip
ped of his armor, the OK
knows his helpless condition and
at once submits to the humiliating
change. His belligerent DISPOSE
ton is gone, he is more socially in
clined, fattens better, and, in adj
dition, handles better, both on the
cars and in transportation than
he otherwise would do. Cruel as
the practice seems, we think there
are many good reasons for its use.
But a new question presents itself,
to which / wish to call the at
tention of those whose business it
is to handle both live and slaugh-
tered beef. We know that cas-
tration changes, to a certain ex-
tent, not only the habits and dis
position of the animals, but also,
as in cattle, hogs, etc, the quality
and amount of flesh obtained. No