Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-11-07

ing on fat and flesh rapidly; and in
buying animals to feed, this item
should be carefully entertained.
Thousands of head Of cattle
we're shipped out of Grant County
last year and early this season,
but owing to the unprecedented
feed here since the rains, train
loads are being brought in from
Texas, and the ranges in the west
ern portion of the County are rap
idly filing up.
At the present price no one feels
like shipping either mutton OF
wool. The sheepmen are holding
on to what they have, because they
believe that whatever may be done
with the tariff on wool, the price
of sheep cannot go lower than it is
at present, and it very apt to go
higher before another year rolls
around.
Why keep a steer until he is
four years old and then sell him at
from $1,000, when by putting
some good blood into him, and
feeding him enough to keep him
in good, thriving, growing condi-
ton from the time he is calved and
finishing on either good grass or
feed, you can sell HIM for SIS to
$4S when twenty-four or thirty
months old?
Commenting on the sheep ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair, the
Breeders Gazette says: "The
Columbian show of sheep measures
fully up to the fondest hopes of
all who were interested in its COM
plete success. In the variety of
the-types to be seen within the
pens, and in the manner in which
the sheep are brought out, as we'll
as in the number and qualities of
the entries, it easily ranks as the
greatest exhibit of the kind yet
held in the United States.
The stcckyards at South Omaha
claim that the freight rates to
that point from the southwest are
such that it Is impracticable for
our cattlemen to ship to that mar
ket and that they are unjustly dis
eliminated against in the matter
of rates. This matter should be
looked into by the road and the
rates adjusted SO as to give Omaha
the same rates as Kansas City and
thereby treat both markets with
equal consideration.
Good cattle never lack q market.
And it is a true that poor cattle
are out of place on the market.
Any day IN the year fat beef steers
can be converted into cash, and
the highest price may be obtained
for them. 1t is the sending of
poor cattle to market which dis
courages so many stock growers,
especially during this time of de-
preston; but a little delay used
in putting beef and fat around the
framework of his steers will change
the outlook of the stockgrower
when he markets his stock.
Willie Rynerson and another
party started for Ell Paso last
week with 200 Angora goats. The
first night out the coyotes STAN
peded the goats. In attempting
to get them together again, Ryner-
sons horse rolled down the noun
tain side, cutting himself badly,
and they were without food and
water "a hours, when 65 of the
number had been found. Willie
left for home in disgust. He went
out last Saturday for a second at
tempt but could find neither goats
nor helper. He has since learned
that a similar herd was seen on
its way TO Mexico in charge of two
Mexicans, and he is of the opinion
that they were his goats.
The Drovers' Journal thinks
that feeders who have maturing
cattle on hand ought to view the
present situation with complac-
ency. In the first place stocks of
n%ativecattle are light and while a
very heaving call for feeding cattle
has lately developed the surplus
cattle were pretty well forced from
the country during the money
stringency and feed lots are by 10
means taxed to their capacity. The
supplies of Texas and western ca,
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