Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-02
LIVE STOCK INTERESTS.
Cattle inspectors to Be Named To
mOrr0w-The Outlook Bright
News from the Ranges.

Hon. J. T. Hinkle came up from Lin
coin county last night and has put in the
day here very pleasantly greeting old
friends. Mr.. Hinkle is en- route to Las
Vegas where the territorial cattle sani-
tary board, of which he is member,
meets tomorrow. His advices are that
there will be full membership present,
as the chief business in hand is the ap-
pointment of half dozen inspectors, in
Guiding one at Kansas City and Trinidad.
There are about ten applications for each
of the inspectorships.
At this meeting also rules and regula-
tions for the government of the live
stock industry under the new law will be
adopted.
Mr.. Hinkle, in common with all other
stockmen, is much elated over the steady
advance in the price of beef and predicts
the most prosperous year in decade for
the live stock raisers of New Mexico.
TERRITORIAL LIVE STOCK NEWS.
The biggest stock run, in the history
of the htchison road, has been begun,
and number of train loads went east,
yesterday and to-day. The shipments
will continue through two weeks, the
number of cars provided by the road, for
the service, amounting to 1000. The cat
tie are chiefly from Mexico.
We understand that D. A. Clouthier is
an applicant for the position of cattle in
spector at Kansas City. Mr.. Clouther is
known throughout northern New Mexico
and respected by all who know him as an
honorable and competent business man,
the position he seeks-Stockman.
Some fellow up in Idaho has made
quite rustic in the sheep trade by sell
ing 1900 car loads of western wethers in
London and the shipments have already
begun. These sheep are of the large
Oregon type and have been crowded on
corn and alfalfa until they couldn't rest.
The sheep are carried over the Union
Pacific on special trains running at thirty
miles an hour and the lots are pushed
forward on schedule time to meet the
steamers at Jersey City, where the stock
is embarked for London.--Field and
Farm.
Cattle, fat or lean, have commenced to
bring 4 cents apd feeders are paying
| cents for 1000 fb cattle for feeding
purposes. Two to three year-old steers
should now easily obtain $50 anyway and
the man who sells for less than that will
soon have cause for regret, while the
buyer purchasing at that figure will have
cause for self gratulation.-Sto Grower.
E. E. Richardson, secretary and treas
urer of the Kansas City Live Stock Ex-
change, while at Fort Worth said: "The
cattle being sent to the markets this sea.
son shows that it will result in decrease
for the year of 100000 to 100000 head
In view of this fact it is interesting to
know where the shortage comes from.
Official reports of receipts at Kansas City
for the months of January and February,
1895, as compared with the corresponding
time last year, show shortage from Kan
sas of over $4,000 head, while the receipts
from Texas to that market for the past
two months are 32,449 against 1894
for the corresponding months in
1894. Colorado, Iowa, Missouri and
Nebraska also show handsome gain. II
is expected as the season advances the
shortage of corn-fed cattle will be more
marked, which will have tendency to
increase the price of the meat cattle from
this state. The improvement in the in
dustrial condition of the country is also
stimulating the beef market, the demand
being better at the present time than for
long period at this season of the year.
DR.. Chas. Cresswell, state veterinary
surgeon of Colorado, gives the formula
for sheep dip which he say was manu-
factured in England thirty yrars ago, the
principal ingredient-soap weed-being
imported from this country at cost oi
rs cents pound. This expense prevent.
ed the dip from competing with cheaper
articles and it's manufacture in England
was finally abandoned. To make the dip
take soap weed root and boil and bruise
it until it is thoroughly reduced to g
pulp. To each pound of pulp add two
pounds of tar and let stand about one
week, until the soap weed "cuts" the tar
stirring il several times each day. The
addition of little alchohol will make it
sm moother, say about one half pint to
above proportion. When the tar is tho
roughly cut add sufficient water to reduc,
it to the required strsngth-about fv,
gallons to above will leave ii as strong al
ever required, which can be reduced ts
twenty gallons where sheep are not bad
Nature has abundantly euppled tn,
western plains, mesas and hillsides will
abundant and nutritious herbage for tn,
sustenance aud fattening of all kinds o
live stock. Especially is this the fact il
New Mexico. Attention is now bein(
directed to the nutritive and fattenin.
qualities of sotol, a vegetable growth o
the cacti species. Sotol is said by stock
men, who have closely studied it's vrtue
as a stock food, to furnish both feed aut
water as it contains sufficient moisture t,
supply stock for long periods withou
water. Sheep readily fatten on it Will
cattle and horses take to IL as they do t,
grain. 1t is not available for sheep un
less burst open with an az. 1t grows il
the shape of an elongated ball, having
thick, rugged bark or scale as covering
The inside is a jnicy nutritious pulp
The pla 1t no doubt could be coltivate
ON irrigated lands where it would assum
much larger growth and value as foo
product.