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

The Hammond beeI CO.S Chlch-
90, have certified TO an increase
Of its capital stock from $4,000 to
to $4,000.
OF the fattening qualities OF al
falfa, il has been demonstrated at
the stock yards at Kansas City
that three ard one-half tons Of al
falfa will fatten a steer, and give a
greater increase than ninety-fve
bushels of corn, and at the same
time will make better beef.
A large corporation under the
name Of the United Dressed Beef
Company has been organized by
New York merchants for the pur-
pose of making themselves better
able to compete with the large
western concerns witch have hith-
erto practically controlled the beef
industry of the country.
W. B.. Slaughter, who is regard
ed as one Of New Mexico's largest
cattle %raisers, came in from Will
laims, Arizona. where he has been
on a buying visit. He purchased
several train loads and will ship as
soon as possible TO Kansas pasture.
Albuquerque Citizen.
In the range country people are
given to thinking that cattle are
nowhere handled on a larger scale
than they are in the countries
where they are allowed to shift
for themselves. How conceited
and wrong persons may be is
shown by the information that
comes from an Illinois farm, owned
by a ''highly respected citizen"
that a thirteen-year-old COW gave
birth to fifteen well developed
calves, thirteen of which are living
and doing we'll.
With accustomed enterprise and
liberality, Swift & Co. are pre-
pared to entertain right royalty
their friends and customers who
visit the Fair. A huge "tally-ho,"
drawn by the superb animals for
which the Swift stables are noted,
will make frequent trips from the
Fair to the general offices at the
yards, for the convenience of those
who may wish to see the killing,
taking off, sailing and other inter-
esting processes of the great Chi
cago killery.
Cattle are fully one dollar per
hundred weight higher than they
were the first of May one year ago.
The market is more healthy in
tone and prospects for the future
are brighter than then. Although
prices for hogs have been "oscil'
lating'' considerably recently, they
are still some dollars per hundred
weight higher than they were {
year ago. Clipped sheep are
bringing about the same prices
they did at the opening of the sea.
| son for this class of stock las.
spring, and good sheep are doing
we'll.
The Stockman has several times
2 mentioned the work of the bureaI
of animal industry, U. S. depart
ment of agriculture, in treating
lumpy-iaw, or actlnomycosis, il
cattle, AMI published a notice of
special bulletin prepared unde.
: direction of DIR. d. E. Salmon, des
cribing the method of treatment
with results , but inquiries from
several seem to Justify further no
tice of it. The experimenters Sc
} cured $50 cattle affected in various
stages of the above named disease
and gave each animal one dram o.
iodide of potash in a pint of water
: as a drench, once daily for a period
of ten to fifteen days. The cattle
were slaughtered a short time af
ter treatment, and the ~carcassei
= were carefully examined by exper
= microscopists and meat inspectors
: who found that the above treat
ment proved very satisfactory anC
! cured the majority of cases. A
number of farmers and stockbreed
y ers tested this remedy in treating
lumpy-jaw cattle and they also re
ported favorable results. Iodid'
= of potash retails at 20 to rs cent
an ounce, or about SO a pound, anC
may be mixed with bran or chop
Q ped feed, to save the trouble o
e drenching. The medicine causeI
a free watery discharge from tn,