Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-27
LIVESTOCK.
DOlNoS OF A DAY IN THE TEXAS
LIVESTOCK CENTER.
That Fly Pest Agalu-Flne Horses-Tar.
rant County Cattle shippod-News
Note i--PersonaL

j. w Gibson OF Waggoner |. T., was
IN the city yesterday
Ike Pryor. the well known Austin cat
tlcman, Is here.
r. y. Graham left for business trip
10 Eastland yesterday.
Ben Hackett shipped out car Of
hue hogs for the 81. Louis market.
Colonel McIymont il shipping twenty
ears VI sheep per week from STANDARD.
T.. NJ Daggctt made shipment Of
eighteen ears of cattle 90 the GGGB ranch.
Burnct. Tex. yesterday.
Swift Il Co. Of Chicago have bought
400 ears Of beeves IN the vicinity Of Bee
Vile and are shipping them to the Windy
City.
The FIRST shipment Of wool from North
en Arizona has JUST been made by
lteimer " May, sheep-raIsers Of Ash
Fork.
Two hundred and twenty cars Of cat
tie passed through this city yesterday
by way Of the Iv,ty and nearly 200
cars through Dcnison.
Joe Miller of Winfield. Kan, IL stin
busy shipping out cattle 20 the rcserya.
ton. Nine ears were sent out from Ro-
scnburg Junction yesterday,
From northern uprcs come favorable
reports from the sheep interests. Sheep
there have wintcred well and the out.
look Il said 10 be- ilattering.
Those who have hogs would do well
to hold them. "a much us possible, for the
rcopcning Of the packing house. as the
supply will not equal the demand.
Beef shipments from Wyoming during
the coming market season will full mate
rally below those Of last year, and are
likely to he distributed over wider
period Of time Ia consequence OF earlier
maturity.
The Texas and "acfc yards received
Fifteen ears Of feeders from south Texas.
and twenty cars from west Texas. for
Territory points. Thirty cars were eX.
pccted 20 arrive from south Texas during
the night
Last weeks total receipts Of cat
tie at Chicago were 2Sl7 short
of the corresponding week last
year, but there was An in
crease ~ $500 head Ia the number of
Texas cattle marketed
NJ, SAMSON Of Alvsiado aud s Horns.
by of Austin marketed cattle at ST. Louis
Monday. The former sold twenty-five
head Of lOUo-pOunr steers nt $40. and
thelatter twenty-five steers OF 7IO.pound
average that Melted -.
An Arizona cattleman reports that
cuttlemen are Offering So for 2.year.
olds, and $40 for 3-ycar.olds Stock
men are needing money, but want 10
keep their cattle the late season having
depleted the ranges. In Tucson 50 Is
offered for yearlings and Si2 for 2-year-
Odds.
The livestock on the Musselshell range
says q Montana paper Is suffering con
sidcubly from the unreasonable weather
and hate spring. More animals have
Turned up their toes In the past month
but Tho loss viii yet be trivial compared
with other years
William H. Bush VI Denver. who was
elected president Of the EIolstein- Frieslan
association of America at lis annual
meeting In New York City recently. de-.
clined TO serve. lie says that his many
business Interests make IL impossible sor
him To do justice 60 the association. and
ne prefers 20 leave the work TO some
one who has more leisure.
The new cattle pest. the horn ay, Is
here In force. A local dairyman and
cattle feeder remarked yesterday thar
he had been successful IN mitigating The
nuisance by the use of "a kerosene sprny
applied while the flies IN sluggish ma
| clinging 70 the cattle Ia The early morn.
ing BY means of this spray he saws
the pest may greatly be lessened
Among the receipts at the Union stock
| Nufus yesterday were thirteen cars of
| cattle from r. III. Williams. beaumont,
consigned 10 Drumm, Flato a Co. Pond
| Greek, /. II. Fifteen cars cattle from
Joe Baker, TOyah. for Emporia. Kan
and twelve cars cattle from Toyah. shin,
ped by sam Lazerus 10 Grand Summit
Kan, Forty cars more are expected dur,
ing the night,
Thirty-three head Of horses were here
yesterday, en- route from Butleryille Mo
20 the City Of Mexico They were being
shipped by stone 4 Son aud Mr.. stone
accompanied them Among the shipment
| are nine spans Of tine, powerful blaeks
valued at $1,000 per span purchased for
the use Of the City of Mexico 6re a.
partment 5000 stallion aud 6na
Arabian mare was Ia the bunch.
The sheep business Of Colorado mpst
Tor years yet be conducted on the ranve
plan. There h not the proper feed sbsl
ter ENCLOSURES nor markets for a vast
number OF socks OF saieep cared for m,
the eastern plan, but for n few farmers
properly located, the business Of rsisine
Fancy mutton sheep aud house lambs 80
market may be made Profitable Frnn,
December TO MAY Young fat lamb a.n
worth from is TO % cents a ,,,,,,,S
dressed, N any good market. and there
cetalhly money In raising them NJ
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