The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-19
stock Notes.

satisfactory, as they seem TO be doing
well. will weigh and test soon-
stock Notes.
ceived at Omaha for a month will
average forty pounds less in weight than
a year ago, or about PA pounds, against
254 pounds last year The quality Is
growing poorer every day, on account Of
short feed and haste to dispose Of every
thing disposable.
Free. wool has given an impetus to the
wool trade. large structure is 10 be
erected on W. Broadway. in New York,
which Will be completed next February
and which will be the headquarters OF all
dealers in the fleece. II will contain a
wool bank. wool club. meeting place for
wool merchant, and a storehouse for the
commodity.
Seth Taylor & Son, New Richland, o..
write: We have two oxford Down ram
lambs which we weighed when they were
fifty-eight and sixty days old. They
weighed fifty-two and ifty-three pounds
respectively. They showed a gain OF ten
and eleven pounds each in the seventeen
days We do not think them extra
heavy. as they have only had ordinary
keep. They had no feed except grass
and their mothers milk.
The Drovers' Journal of Chicago says:
The government inspectors in the various
slaughter houses condemn the meat Of
all cows that have calves inside with hair
on. The inspection Of hogs made by the
government inspectors at the scales be-
fore weighing is very close and their
decision is final, statesmen having no ap-
peal therefrom. All badly pregnant sows,
hogs with punches, bOils, etc. also hogs
with cuts on the hams and shoulders, are
thrown out.
Western advices indicate that while
Iowa will have no corn to sell, the great
agricultural state has enough feed 10
carry her farm stock through without
anything like a wholesale sacrifice Of the
animals. Missouri will probably feed a
good many cattle. Eastern Kansas and
Nebraska will doubtless take care of
themselves all right. but in the western
portions Of those states the situation Is
quite as bad as it has been painted
Breeders Gazette.
Apples are falling and rafting under
the trees in hundreds Of orchards. A
reader says he has found it mutually
beneficial TO pigs and trees to turn the
former into the orchard. He says: Il
have found that the use Of the FALLEN
apples was OF great service to the pigs.
frequently preventing disea ses, and i'm
proving their digestion. 1t is about the
only way the prema ture fruit which falls
can be utilized. being wormy, decayed
and unfit for cooking purposes or vine
gar"
Farmers acting on the theory that the
prices OF hogs must go down have, dur
ing the past winter and summer, gotten
rid of their brood sOws and now they
find themselves with only few matured
lots and hog prices as high as they have
been I'm a long time with the exception
of a while last year. The lesson taught
is that those who stick TO their business
and have good stock ready every year
are the most likely 20 succeed. The chaps
nd TO Ia
the best OF it sometimes get very much
the worst Of it.-DOvers' Journal.
The National Provisioner of New York
SAYS: "rhe difference between Irish and
American bacon. and the superiority OF
the former, is not a matter of cure and
cut but Of breed and feed The rul-
ing breed in Ireland is the Yorkshire
White-very uncouth-looking animals,
with long, fiat, deep sides, shoulders and
hams, and coarse, long necks. heads and
legs. When dressed. with their heads
and legs off, they look mich better, and
one decided advantage which they have
over tho American is that they cut lean,
and throughout the fat and lean are
much more evenly divided"
Ii is claimed by the cattlemen of south
west Texas, says "A San Antonio dis
patch, that the new tariff bill will result
in serious injury to the cattle interests
Of this section. The duty is reduced from
SO per head 20 20 per cent ad valorem,
and now that grass is good on this side
II is expected at least 100000 cattle will
be brought into Texas from Mexico with
ing the next sixty days. and after being
fattened marketed in this country, thus
forcing down the prices. Thousands OF
head Of cows and stock cattle will also
be brought into Texas from Mexico.
There will also be large importations of
cheap horses from Mexico into this coun-
try.