Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-12-19
Critic Notes.


which went to Kansas City.
At the four leading western
markets last week there were re-
ceived las, 200 cattle, S64Os sheep,
showing, compared with 1892, a
gain of 5000 cattle and 1900
sheep.
Last weeks London cable quoted
best American steers at ~ and
three fourths cents against twelve
aud one half cents The week be-
fore.
The estimate for November is
10000 cattle at Kansas City.
That being correct, receipts will
be 5000 cattle greater than last
November, and consequently the
largest on record for November.
No less than four train loads of
cattle have been shipped the past
week from Pima county to Cali
.fornia, where the market at pres
ent is good.-Tucson Star.
The Wv outfit, of Lincoln coun-
ty, has completed the drive of
LOO head to its Panhandle pas
ture without the loss of a single
hoof.
w. S. Hopewell, the popular and
successful cattle raiser of Sierra
county, is shipping 100 cars of
cattle to Kansas.
Estimating from now to Jan. l,
the receipts of sheep at Chicago
during the past year will foot up
3,025,000 head, or $4,000 more
than in 1890, the previous banner
year.
A western sheep master says
the fact hat a great many are try
ing to get out of the sheep bust
ness will make a better future for
the trade. He says the owners
are like the sheep they raise
where one leads they all follow.
The total imports of wool for
the first nine months of the year
1893 show a falling off of 20,679,-
237 pounds as compared with the
same period of 1892. During the
month of September alone there
was a falling off of 9,957,429
pounds
The cattle markets report de-
mand steady to 10 cents higher on
most grades since last week, with
a scarcity of native feeders. We
still hold to the opinion that spring
will see the demand for cattle more
active han for a long time and
that prices will be such that the
range steer will be a good invest
ment.
Notwithstanding the cry that
has been going the rounds of the
press that the bottom was knocked
out of the sheep business, inquir-
les are still coming west, asking
about good locations to embark in
the business. The man who sells
his sheep now will be looking
around for a small boy to kick him
while he who embarks in the busl-
ness, will be the one that can sit
in his easy chair and smile at fate.
The ordeal for the COWS in the
dairy test at Chicago was a trying
one to animal economy. For the
long period they were kept in con-
fnement, forced to the highest
possible point of production by
the use of the most nutritious
food, under the strictest possible
conditions. OF the 70 in the fnal
test, half a dozen succumbed. Oh
the 200 from which the contestants
were selected, a dozen have died
some of them the highest priced
animals on tho continent. One Of
them cost her owner 81,
The widespread belief that tn,
beef from old animals, aud espe.
cially from old COWS, must b'
tough and stringy is a consequence
of the improper way in which
much such beef is fattened. Ole
animals do not have as good teetl
as those younger. For this reason
their digestion is poorer, and more
care needs to be taken against
overlooking, which induces clog.
ging of the stomach. Every on,
who has over-fed knows that Will,
the stomach is overloaded fever Il
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