Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-02-27

The snow storm Of last week has
been just what the stockmen need
to insure water in the holes for the
coming summer, and as spring is SO
near it is not possible for cattle to
be injured TO any great extent.
People having improved New
Mexico cattle to sell can find pur-
chasers for them by making their
wants known thorough the advert
ising columns Of the Stock Grower.
That Office is in receipt Of inquiries
for this class Of stock.
A year ago persons travelling over
the Santa Fe between Albuquer-
que and FL Paso, looking over the
country beheld barren WASTES and
dead cattle strewn along the line.
Now the scene has changed. Fat
cattle are seen on every hand and
plenty of grass.
Cattle feeding on alfalfa in New
Mexico and Arizona is on the in
c%rease, and as fast as new irrigation
schemes are inaugurated the guam
tity and quality of our cattle so
handled will continue TO increase.
1t will not be many years before
cattle feeding in the southwest
viii be the rule and not the excep-
ton by the way our ranchman han
die their stock.
Old time cattlemen say that they
never knew beef cattle 30 low in
January and February as they are
right now, says an exchange. Fat
cattle are selling for but little more
than good grassers brought a year
ago, and the worst of 1t is there is
no prospects of an immediate i'm
provement.
During January, 1894, western
feeders shipped 521 carloads of cat
tie from Chicago against 1876 a
year ago, an anincrease of 1876 cars.
During the month exporters for
warded 1890 loads of cattle to sea-
board ports FOR export a live.
Last months receipt of sheep at
Chicago were the second largest on
record. The January arrivals were
297, 700 head and last October they
were $4,000 head.
Competitive buying is not es
brisk as it ought to be, and the
trade in hat respect is unsatisfac-
tory. 1t requires an especially fine
bunch of muttons to sell as high as
S3.75 per cwt.
1t is claimed that some Wyom-
ing stockmen have discovered a
sure and deadly bait for wolves.
Blood from slaughtered animals
impregnated with strychnine while
it is warm, and then allowed to
coagulate, will attack wolves from
a distance. They will eat the poi.
soned blood with avidity, while
avoiding a poisoned carcass.
Editor Hale Of the st. Louis Ma
tional Live Stock Reporter says:
Many people appear to believe
that the live stock production oil
the United State has reached its
maximum, but there are plenty OF
men now living who will see 100,
600 cattle per week as a regulal
thing on the Chicago market, and
and st. Louis, Kansas City and
Omaha will increase in equal OF
larger proportion.
Kansas City Packer: Receipts at
the stock yards during the first
month of the new year strengthens
the conviction that the live stock
business of Kansas City in 1891
will as far exceed that of 1893 aa
the latter surpassed any previous
year. Although the receipts il
cattle this month continue to show
an increase over those Of last Jan
uary, there is a shortage Of export
steers. A great many more would
be promptly taken at the yards at
good prices.
We hear complaints, says the
Sierr1 Valley Leader, among stock
men about the beef cattle not doing
as well as usual this winter in this
valley, still there are nice beef cat.
tie feeding here this winter.
Colonel Hardin, who has exten.
siye cattle interests in Nevada, says
that the present holding Of cattle
which arefeeding will average only
about one-half in weight and three
ffths in number as compared witt
those fed in former years. He
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