Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-06-05
Cattle Notes.

one who likes to dabble in figures
that 8 per cent Of the sheep of the
United States are destroyed annu-
ally by dogs, wolves and coyotes.
Considerable Of the drouthy
portion Of Texas has been visited
with excellent rains in the past
ten days, which greatly relieves
the situation.
The Kansas City Stockman says
the western cattle trade, that is
seles on the range, is more stag
nant this season than it has been
for years.
On account of the scarcity of
sheep feed on the West Side, the
s. p. railroad company have offer
ed the use of 100000 acres of land
to sheep owners, in the state of
Nevada,
The Bell ranch in New Mexico
has just laid in a fresh supply of
young Hereford bulls, bought in
Kansas and Texas.
w. B. Slaughter, of the Amer-
can Valley in Socorro county, this
week shipped out seventy car loads
of range stock to the Kansas pas
lures.
Colorado cattlemen are prepar-
ing to resist the invasion of their
grazing grounds by band of 140,-
600 sheep from Utah.
Col. r. G. Head is going to stay
with the cattle business. He late
ly purchased 1900 head of young
steers in Lincoln county and mov-
ed them to his alfalfa farm in Mo
ra county.
Some 10000 head of cattle from
Arizona ranges are preparing to
drive across New Mexico to Clay
ton for shipment to Dakota and
Montana ranges. Thirty thousand
other cattle are this season to be
driven down from Arizona to the
panhandle in Texas.
The practice Of washing sheep
before shearing is fast dying out
and very few flock masters do it
now. 1t seldom pays.
Kansas City has seventy-one
live stock firms and is the second
live stock market in the world,
with receipts of s92,OOO,OOO in '93.
1t has the largest horse and mule
stables IN the world also. 1t has
seven packing houses that make a
product of s55,OOO,OOO, the second
largest packing business in the
world, employing yearly 10000
men, at annual wages Of $1,000
OOO.>
Great complaint is made among
the traders at the Kansas City
stock yards with regard to the gov
eminent inspection Of pregnant
COWS. 1t is claimed by traders
that gross incompetency is showr
Fan1 that cows and heifers not il
Fthe fehstsforward in calf are throwT
out by inspectors to the great det
ftiment Of the trade. Owners anC
t:shippers of COWS cannot be too
4 careful in sorting out such anC
'f keeping them at home as they ar,
!; sure TO lose money ifsshipped OF
the market under present inspec
tion.
The west must farm and if w
must farm we must make liv,
stock our leading interest. Tn,
great surplus of ranch cattle is a
last worked off and the prediction
r stockmen statisticians are now up
on us showing a shortage in th
west from so many COWS and heil
ers being marketed and so man,
farmers, losing courage with th
} low prices, quit breeding Blu
the world must be fed and we ar
f; glad to see the increasing interea
in public sales in Iowa and Ne
: braska TO improve the herds an
3 begin breeding again.-Wester
! Agrlcdlturist.
? Kansas seems to be the point @
. destination for all Southwestern
t cattle. Many thousands are goin
> on pasture there almost daily, al
: of which will be marketed in du
r season in Kansas City, the leadin
market center in the United Statel
Large shipments from Californi