El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-28

Fine stock breeders In Texas ali re-
port large sales and satisfactory prices
for the past season.
The receipts from the sale of cattle
in Arizona during 1896 were upwards
of 50, 900 600. A neat little sum for the
men who have been holdiug on by
their teeth for eight years.-Gazette.
Considerable uneasiness is felt by
the stockmen of Nueces county over
the development of number OF cases
of farcy among the horses. Several
animals suffering from the disease
| were shot recently. and every effort Is
being made to check it's ravages.
A gradual reformation is now going
on in Texas against the practice of
putting box car size brands on cattle.
Years ago it was necessary to do this,
but cattle stealing is practically a
thing of past generation, and the loss
of millions Of dollars on account OF too
big brands C IN safely be stopped.
Under 70 conditions allow your
lambs to stop growing Every thing
depends on their being kept thrifty.
The first year of a young lambs lie Is
the most important. The little fell ow
| then needs care and feed. A setback
at that time will never be overcome
lamb, stinted in its growth, will
never make a big sheep.
The receipts and shipments at Anna
ri 10, the largest original shipping point
| in Texas or in the Unit d States are
up to the average this year, possibly
above the average. The actual sales,
however, are less than usual, most of
| the cattle now being driven there hav-
| ing been contracted for some time
back.
| A small flock of sheep is a satisfac-
tory moving machine on dairy farm.
| They go admirably with Jersey cows,
or, rather, they follow Jersey COWS
| with profit to the pastures. Sheep
fertilize a pasture more evenly than
cattle or horses, and do not tear up
of most young weeds and so keep them
cropped down.
| The chief difference in the contour of
the body of the leading b eff breeds of
cattle as distinguished from the scrub,
or even the dairy breeds, is the
straight broad back and well sprung
| rib, fully rounded, giving heavy lOiu
and rib, with the lower parts cores
pondingly decreased. 1t is a common
rule that the body of beef animal
| looking az it sidewise should have
quare appearance.
Alex Lobb, inspector for the bureau
of animal industry at Ell Paso. Texas,
has been in the city for several days.
He locks for a mara ed falling off in the
| importation of Mexican cattle now that
the tariff has gone into effect. He
thinks that the bulk of the surplus
young cattle have already crossed the
border into the states and that there
is no great number left to come, while
of fat cattle they find better market
iu the City of Mexico than in this
country.-Kansas City Journal.
The sheep business in Texas is az
pareutly in very healthy condition
now: demand is good and supply by no
means excessive. The Journal does
not quite go to the length of urging
every farmer in the country to handle
sheep, there being many so situated
that it is impossible or unsu. table for
them to do so. Land, surroundings and
| many other conditions may render the
keeping of sheep unc esirable, but
where it can be done, there is nothing
that pays better for the investment
than nice little bunch of well graded
sheep.
The Live Stock Indicator says that
1.-The demand for improved bulls of the
beef breeds has been very large in
Texas and is a very considerable factor
N causing the scarcity of good beef
throughout the entire country. The
Texas cattleman does not hesitate to
pay good prices and he is satisfied only
with the best: indeed, he wants no
other, for he is beginning to realize
now wide is the distance between the
range steer and the high grade native,
and he is learning by experience the
difference in the profta blenes5 of the
two"
The New Mexico and Arizona ranges
for next winters feeders, are now
practically exhausted. The spring
movement of cattle to northern pas
has closed and everything will settle
down till fall. Every thing in the way
of mark able stock now on the ranges
mas been contracted for October ue-
livery, and those best posted say that
when the fall drive closes there will be
fewer beef cattle in New Mexico and
Arizona than at any previous time in
the history of the cattle business in the
history of the MISUNDERSTANDING
Headlight.
Texas has been drawn upon for all |
the young cattle she could spare by |
feeders in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and |
Nebraska California has no surplus: !
Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado |
are snort. = I'd III mas ndu SOno 10 sell.
nut not many; Idaho and Nevada have !
no surplus. Oregon and Washington
are lightly supplied and Montana,
Wyoming aid the Dak0tas will have !
not as many cattle to ship or put in the
ranges as last year. The southeastern
states haven't enough cattle to supply
them in beef. There is unquestionably
Il gre 1t shortage ia cattle, young and
old, and of all kinds. And yet we run
up against some one every once in d
while generally some man who wants
to buy cattle) 'yho complains that the
Journal is altogether too bullish."
The Journal is beginning to think now
that it has not been bullieh enough, all
things considered
Local comm ission men have stand
ing orders for 10000 head of stock
sheep. Not one-haif enough sheep are
now coming to mar ket. The move
inents Is much lighter than last year
owing 20 strict enforcement of govern
ment regulations regarding the hand
ling of scabby sheep and the unWilIino-