Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-24
Of Territorial Stock NOtes-Cattle
Shipments-Sheep Shearing-
Hog Growing.

Hon. W. s. Hopewell, the Sierra count
stockman, sold 5000 head of cattle t
eastern buyers last week.
The Detroit Cattle company starts to
morrow to round up about 1900 head o
cattle.-R,ncon Weekly.
One hundred car loads of cattle will b.
loaded from Dorsey station, near Ration
on the 25th for shipment east.
About 200 canloads of fat cattle hay
been shipped out of Salt River valley
Arizona, within the past thirty days.
Kerr & Giddius shipped 6l2 head o
cattle from Deming during the week
bought of Davenport, Baker, Muir a
Lindsey.
A recent shipment of Canadian cattl,
to Belgium was reported to be affected
with pleuro-pneumonia by the Belgian
authorities.
The Roswell Record: John l.. Stone
has finished shearing his flock of 5000
sheep, from which he secured $4,000
pounds Of wool.
Eighteen cars of sheep, in transit from
Phoenix, Ariz, to Kansas City, we're re-
recently fed at the Las Vegas stock yards
also twenty-one cars of cattle, from Dem.
ing to Denver.
The restrictions on importations of
Mexican cattle have been removed, and
! the country will be crowded with cattle
from that country. The high price of
beef caused the removal of the restric-
tions.
The Eddy Current: William Jones sold
his steers to Mr.. Hearn, of Roswell, for
30 for yearlings, $3.50 for two-year-olds
and SIG for threes. This is considered a
fair price for steers at present.
With shortage of nearly 100000 cattle
in three months at the four leading mar
kets of the United States it ie scarcely to
be wondered at that prices are advancing.
The receipts during the period were
smaller than for the corresponding period
of any year since 1891.
During the past ten days the Santa Fe
railroad has been employed to its utmost
capacity moving cattle from Deming and
the southern part of the territory ad-
iacent to the Mexican line, in fact the
track has been kept smoking with cattle
trains going east.
The Ration Reporter: A train load
of fat cattle from California passed
through here this morning for Denver.
This is the first shipment of the kind
ever made from California to Denver and
if the experiment proves financial sue
cess many more train loads will follow.
Victoria Guelph, Queen of Great Brit
ain and Empress of India, does not think
it beneath her dignity to spend consider
able time and portion of her $1,OO0,OOO
annuity on her private dairy and stock
farm at Frogmore. She is said to be
thoroughly acquainted with the history
and pedigrees of the shorthorns and in
less detail of her Devons and Herefords.
Experiments show that sheep of seven
to ten months old can be made to gain
fourteen pounds from every 100 pounds
of digestble materials consumed, while
those of eighteen months old will make a
gain of but five pounds. It is difficult to
get profit from feeding old sheep; and
any sheep can be made to gain as much
in ten weeks, as is usually done in ten
months.
Silver City Eagle: Quite number of
cattlemen are gathering cattle for ship
ment in few days. The shipments from
this point last week were large and stock
men who sold their cattle realized good
prices. During the next six weeks the
stockmen of this county will svery busy
getting stock together for shipment and
when the April and May shipments are
over the ranges will be lightened very
considerably.
Silver City Eagle: Four train loads of
cattle were shipped from this place last
week. There were in all about eighty
different brands in the shipments. Most
of the cattle we're from the northwestern
part of the county. Large shipments
were made from Deming and Separ dur
ing the week and other big shipments
will follow in short time. Cattlemen
will be busy Oh the ranges gathering cat
tie for shipment for the next month.
The Deming Headlight: Manager W.
D. Duke, of the Haggin-Heast interests
in this section, is shipping several train
loads of stock from Gage station to Cali
fornia pastures, principally in the vicin-
ity Of Bakersfield. Several thousand head
of stock will be taken out of New Mexico
by the Haggin-Heast people this spring.
Mr.. Duke will shortly remove to Bakers
field to look after tho stock interests. His
successor for New Mexico has not yet
been named.
The Eddy Register; The Tansill farm
has just secured from the Croftonville
stock farm the largest and finest herd of
full bred Poland. China hogs ever brought
TO the valley, consisting of forty sows and
The celebrated boars Young George Wilkes
and Tecumseh. These were all imported
from Ohio, and, in connection with the
fine hogs of the same class of stock i'm
ported by Mr.. Tansill last fall, will no
doubt constitute not only the largest but
also the finest lot of pure Poland China
hogs ever brought west, which will we'll
be worth inspection by farmers and
others.