El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-17
Stock Notes,

Stock Notes.
Wiley Moore has refused an offer of
S12 a head for 1900 head of steer year
lings delivered at Toyah.
During the month of December last
1872 head of Mexican cattle were
brought into the United States at FL
Paso, Deming and Fort Hancock, ard
last month 1902 head were brought
in.
Reports from tie cattle ranges show
that the loss of stock was light. In
Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska the
recent storm was severe, and though
the cattle suffered intensely, the effect
of the storm was nothing serious.
There was very little snow during the
cold snap and feed was not covered. So
range stock have not suffered much,
and they are in better condition than
they usually are at this time of year.
Experiments with Texas COWS on this
range will be watched with interest
this year, says the Sioux Stock Journal.
A bout Sept. l Louis La Plant put some
2, 300 head of this stock on this range.
While this is very late in the year, the
outlook is much better than was pro
dicted by many cattlemen. we all
realize that they have not the chances
to make a fair test, owing to the delay
in getting them here. However, II
this venture is a success, thousands of
these cattle will be put on this range
before August of this year.
People ought not to eat oysters that
come from further north than Phlla-
delphia. The northern beds are terri
bly, tainted, it is supposed by the sew
age that is turned into the streams.
everal very famous beds have already
been destroyed and now the oyster
growers in South Jersey are asking
~pecial legislation, and they tell of the
damage that has been done as follows:
A score of years ago, men who owned
oyster sloops in Maurice River cove
made fortunes in few years. but now
fully 600 boats and 1000 men are idle.
Ten years ago the annual income from
OYSTER growing in the cove was from
S400 600 to $500, 000 Now $1,000 will
cover the sale of every bivaIve.
The board of supervisors of aricopa
county have addressed q communica-
ton to the territorial livestock sani-
tary commission on the subject of the
quarantine which the governor of New
Mexico is threatening against the cat
tie of Arizona and California. The
quarantine grows out of the report of
tuberculosis and Texas or splenic fever
among Arizona and California cattle.
the Repu blican, shows that both dis
eases were in Salt Valley, but both
we're traced, tuberculosis to Missouri,
and splenic fever to California. Within
a short time after the Introduction of
each disease its presence was discover
ed ADD prompt measures were success
fully employed to stamp it out. There
is not a trace of either disease in the
territory. The sanitary commission is
requested to lay these facts before the
New Mexican authorities.-Pro
or.
1 think that stock and beef cattle are
not only part of the business of the
farmers, says a recent writer in the
Live Stock Indicator, but without cat
tie farming in the west can not be
made q success, for stock is necessary
to eat up the waste and keep up the
fertility OF the land. If a farmer keeps
about as much ste ok as his land will
carry he will have good way to dis
pose of his surplus feed, and the re-
turns in the way OF fertility will keep
up the land all right. Of course [ do
rot believe in overstocking land. Hogs
also should form part of the stock
or every farm. All cattle, when fat
tening. should have hogs to follow. 1t
never pays any one to raise corn for
10 cents a bushel, but when we have
eIOCh IudG we nave TdlSeu 10 leSu IL ~
it will pay, although there are farm
ers in my vicinity who feed from 200 to
300 cattle and several hundred hogs
every year. and yet never raise an ear
of corn. They can buy corn cheaper
than they can raise it, they say. y
farmer ought to raise his own calves.
Then he knows what kind of stock he
has and what they will probably amount
to in the future. When one buys
bunch of calves he is liza BILE to get sew
eral that will prove inferior and large
ly take the profits off those that are all
right.