Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-01-09

Well bred, improved stock is as
cheap o as it ever will be.
Head your herds with good ami
mails, let the scrubs disappear, aud
see the difference in results.
A train load of $50 head of fine
cattle were shipped from Benson,
Arizona, to Bakersfield last week.
Better sires at the head Of the
herds make better herds; better
herds make better prices. Which
do you want?
The Tucson Star says: No less
than four train loads Of cattle have
been shipped the past week from
Pima county to California, where
the market at present is good.
Don't wait until the stock are
suffering for shelter before giving
it to them. You should see that
the stables and sheds are ready
before the cold winter sets in.
The receipts Of cattle at Kansas
City we're larger than in any year
since the beginning of their live
stock business. A million and a
half cattle credited at the stock
yards and they are still coming.
The improvement of the live
stock Of Mexico is a subject which
Is attracting increased attention
in the republic each year. AS the
cattlemen on the western plains
saw a few years ago, so the Mexi-
can stock growers are beginning
to see now. Blooded stock of all
kinds commands gilt edged prices
in the south, and Mexico should
in the future furnish a profitable
and ready market for the over
stocked farms of the north.
For the purpose of beef making,
we doubt if scrub cattle ever pay
their way. They cannot, with any
amount of care and feed, be made
into such cattle as will sell at the
top price in the open market, yet
they have taken the same care,
longer time to mature, and as a
consequence more feed than would
have been required of well bred
animals. These facts are perfect
ly apparent to any man who will
take the trouble to observe care
fully for himself. If you have
been trying to fool yourself with
the belief that you can do SO, you
would better give it up.
There Is a prevailing tendency
among people seeking investments
for their surplus money to embark
in the cattle business. We can
hardly pick up a paper hat has
not some announcement of people
trading land or other property for
cattle. Straws show which way
the wind blows, and from these
few straws we infer that there is
a general feelng that cattle are
good property at the present time,
and will be for some time to come.
Stock Grower.
AS people look for the cause
and effect of conditions noticed in
business, it is interesting to note
the conditions in different lines of
meat animals. 1t will be remem-
bered that the shortage apparent
last year in pork, forced the price
up. Now the shortage of nearly
a million and a half in hogs in
nine months should again have
caused an advance of 81 per humid
red compared with last year, while
the big ~increase in sheep has re-
duced prices from rs cents to a
dollar. Cattle prices, however,
have not yielded to the influence,
says the Drover's Journal. The
shortage in this department will
reach about three hundred thous-
aud head, nearly all of which are
natives, for in nine months Texans
show a decrease of only thirty
seven thousand head and receipts
from the west we're about the same
as last year. One would naturally
think that with an increase in con-
sumption of fresh meats that live
cnttle would be as high in proper
ton as receipts showed a decrease,
1t is very possible that cheaper
mutton has something to do with
this, and has been instrumental in
lessening the consumption of beef
products. Thus upon market con-
ditions, the prices Of live stock in
the markets Of the country are ac4