Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-05-23
Cattle Notes.


as 1900 head of cattle per day will
be required, above the ordinary
consumption, to feed the visitors
to Chicago during the Worlds
Fair with fresh beef.
The Santa Fe is now moving
stock from every section Of the
Territory, and the ranges around
the shipping points, which were
blocked with cattle during the re-
cent strike, are now being rapidly
relieved of their surplus.
The Santa Fe company is now
prepared to accept for shipment
FIVE trainloads of stock per day,
from this division. There are
several hundred cars ordered and
until these orders are filled, bust
ness will be brisk.
It is reported that nearly fifty
thousand head of cattle were un-
der herd at the heads of Spring
and the Berrendo rivers last Sun
day. This is more than was ever
held at any previous roundop, and
is accounted for by reason of the
fact that several owners have gath
cred all their cattle for the pur-
pose of placing them on the mar
ket.
While VIM. Balm and his men
were gathering cattle in Hop can
on, near Magdalena, recently, they
came across two Mexicans who
were killing cattle belonging to
him and N. w. Cuistion, The
Mexicans we're brought before
Justice of the Peace Borrowdale
and bound over to await the action
of the grand Jury. One of them
gave bonds and the other went to
Jail.
Wyoming authorities have de-
cided upon plan of cattle in
spection. They will refuse to rec
ogniEe both government and Colo
RADIO certificates and will inspect
all imported animals on their own
account. An inspector will be
stationed at Denver and another
at Pueblo. The cattle owners
will be called upon to pay the cost
of this inspection, as fee of one
and one-half cents will be charged.
1t would be we'll for our cattle
men and farmers to take advant-
age of the Silver Convention at
Silver City, on the 4th and 5th of
July, and secure cooperation for
the enaCtmeht Of legislation for
the settlement of our arid land
laws. There will be no better op-
portunity for our stock raisers to
to get together, to promote their
interests and secure valuable aid
from the people.-Stock Grower.
Those who claimed three months
ago that the number Of sheep fed
in the country would fall short of
the average for the past two or
three years have been convinced
that their opinions were decidedly
wrong. The supply for the first
four months of the year will be
something like $4,000 head, a
monthly average of nearly 100000
head. So far this year the gain in
sheep compared with last year is
about 175,000, which is equal - a
good months receipts. If the year
1898 DON'T show a surprising in
crease compared with other years
then the Indications of the first
four months are not a reliable in
dex.
Dehorning is growing in prac-
tice, but the common way of saw
ing off the horns is Objectionable
on humane grounds. The better
way is to stop the growth of the
horns on the calves. DIR. Salmon,
the head of government bureau of
animal industry gives this as the
chemical dehorner" used in his
experiments: A mixture is pre-
pared by taking fifty parts of
caustic soda, twenty-five parts of
kerosene oil and twenty-five parts
of water. An emdlsion is made of
the kerosene oil and the soda by
heating and vigorously stirring
and this is then Dissolved in water.
This mixture is then placed in a
bottle with u solid rubber cork.
This cork is to rub the mixture in
when d few drops are applied to
tha a,d of tba ooroincy bor,, of tho