Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-03

LtbIuhiy ~ ohe VI thO bonb
months Of the years in which for
calves and lambs to come. They
and their dams get a good ready
for the spring pasture.
Begin now to get ready both
COWS and crops if you intend to go
in for winter dairying. Breed the
COWS so that they will drop calves
early next winter.
Mich COWS require something
more than exercise to cause them
to do their best in n milky way.
Therefore, a bad pasture cannot be
made good by increasing its area.
No COW should be require to travel
all day to fill herself with dried
heritage.
The Kansas City Packer says:
In consequence of the scarcity of
ready money the 700 employees in
the establishment of Libby, Nc
Neil & Libby, Gamers of meat, in
Chicago, have been subject to a cut
in wages.
A movement has been started by
the journeymen butchers unions
throughout the country to organize
IA butches' national union. Circu-
lars have been sent out from the
Bitches Union of Toledo calling
for a convention.
Swift & Co., Chicago, has fol-
lowed the example Of the Libby
CODY laying off 500 employees.
They have also retrenched by re-
ducing the remaining employees 10
per cent. The action was expected
and caused by the present condi-
ton of business at the stock yards.
The Armour beef house at Kan
sas City is the largest in the world,
being seven stories high, with a
cold storage capacity of 1900
dressed cattle and covering an
area of 300x500 feet. Thirty acres
of ground are used by the COM
pany in their general plant; the
floor acreage in buildings is 80
acres; in cold air rooms 30. acres,
and the total storage capacity is
200,000,000 pounds.
There is a real calamity on the
western live stock ranges, accord
ing to the Omaha Daily Stockman.
which says:
"The fates seem to have it in foi
the range cattle owners and what
promised early in the year to be {
profitable season to western stock.
men is, owing to force of circum
stances, proving to be a bad if no
the worst season in the history O.
the range business. Reports from
the range country last spring wer,
most hattering to the cattle owners
abundance of rain and fine grazing
allbut assured. The rain sudden
ly ceased, the driest season know il
years set in, grass shriyeled up an,
the cattle began to lose flesh, AM
in many instances cattle that prom
Used early TO be fit for fine beeve
at the marketing period ar
turned on the market thin in hcsl
flabby and weak, hardly in cond.
ton to sell as feeders. Add this
the present stringency in none
circles and the cup of woe of til
range cattle owner is filed to til
very brim. True, later conditio
may improve matters somewha
but this is the state of affairs 1
present. On the other hand, shee
owners arc faring even worse tina
the %cattlemen, although good pri
es the past year or two for mu
ton have given the sheep owne
the advantage over the cattle hol,
ers. Last year the sheep and he
raisers we're monarchs of the stu
ton and breeding animals were
great demand. At present sheC
are a drug on tho market, wool
unstable at anywhere near a sati
factory price and hog values a
decidedly uncertain. These cond
tions demonstrate one thing qui
clearly and that is hat fancy va
ues for live stock Of all kinds a.
practically things Of the past fro
the fact that no man can scarce
approximately estimate the suppl
which is more and more distribu
ed in the hands of the small hol
ors as the years go by, and so lor
as there is a vast territory TO dra
from and as the facilities for mar
citing increase there will be le