The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-31
WOOL AND MUTTON.

Field and Farm: The top on Colorado
lambs this season was $el5 at Chicago
for some Fort Collins stuff. while Kan
sas City paid $3.50 for the best things
sent from Bent county
l. P. Southworth has succeeded IT
buying 10000 head of Oregon and Idaho
! sheep and 3-year-old wethers-ai
these sheep were going at from $3.50 to
S1.75.
Alfalfa hay for feeding lambs should
be cut as soon as the bloom appears. II
IL is fully ripe they viii waste more,
but IL Is just as nutritious. When cut
before it blooms the hay is nice and
tender and will all be eaten. About
four cuttings should be made during
the season IF growers who cut alfalfa
for lamb-feeding will observe this rule
they will find that the hay will give
much better satisfaction and lambs
will do well on it from the start.
Shipments of wool to the eastern
markets from Casper, Wyo., are now
being made by big fockmasters OF cen
trail Wyoming. Trainloads have been
shipped by Robert Taylor. J D. Wood
run. Kenneth Mcdonald and David
Kidd The wool business OF the state
( has never been as active as during the
/ present season. Freighters teams
loaded with wool have TO wait their
turns in order TO unload at the ware
houses.
A sheep feeder of Larimer county
writing to Wool Markets and Sheep,
says: The two carloads OF lambs
which l had on the Chicago market
: averaging 7e pounds, and which topped
the market at $5.75. were bought in
! New Mexico and weighed upon arrival
I here 4o pounds. They were fed corn and
all the alfalfa they could eat, and were
put on quarter of a pound of corn
and gradually increased until the last
month. when they consumed. about a
pound and a half each day. This is
about the way all Fort Collins lambs
were fattened this year. This is the
best year we have had since 1893 for
making money. l think buyers are
making fools of themselves Offering
long prices for lambs all over the
country this early in the season. They
should take a lesson from cattle feeders
one year ago last fall
Sheep is sheep. as they say in Mis-
souri,. and the man who has a nice
bunch of mer1nos is going to make
money in spite of the new tariff agita-
ton and the free entry of woods now
Cutting the eastern warehouses.
a Massachusetts, farmer has just sold
his lot of spring lambs. He has 81
ewes and marketed so lambs disposing
of them when they were % to 80 days
old; the first one sold Weigheing 221b
pounds at % days old. He received
$3.50 each, which was about 40 cents a
pound, a price which he could not have
obtained but for reaching the market
early, when spring lambs were not
easily obtained. This is better than
keeping sheep for wool.
II speaking about fattening sheep on
alfalfa pasture, L. Ogilvy of Weld
are all right in this neighborhood. !
About three years ago lost from bloat |
seven ewes running in a large field in /
the space of one hour. They We're /
worth $50 a head. The alfalfa was cut l
down close with a butcher knife and /
only filed a bran sack. Since that time. |
however, L have seen sheep pastured !
on alfalfa without much loss where |
they had access to water all the time, 1
such as a ditch running through the +
center of a narrow field. l am going to
try paSturing some this year, but shall !
use some low-priced sheep, not my
Shropshires. I had an experience with
a eve that bloated repeatedly lately.
She was an obstinate case and though
had often cured her with colchium l
had fully made up my mind that she
would balk me some time soon. 1t is
my custom to keep lime in my tanks
and water troughs, but l had run out
and did not get any until about ten
days ago. since which time she has not
bloated nor have I noticed any of the
other sheep unduly full
Congressman Mason S. Peters of
Kansas is protesting against the new
order of the bureau of animal industry
with reference to the treatme of dis
eased sheep by the government inspect
ors at the stock yards throughout the
country. Under the regulations now in
'orce the government animal inspectors
cause scabby sheep to be dipped at the
Yards before they are taken from the
market. 1t is averred that one dipping
s sufficient to effect a cure. However.
he department last week issued new
rider which will require the sheep to he
held ten days after the first treatment
ind then dipped again. Congressman
'eters says the enforcement of this new
-ule would virtually cause the confisca-
ion of scabbv sheep sent to the mar
Iet. as they would eat their heads off
while they were held in quarantine for
he ten DAYS required by the new rule
20 attempt has been made as yet TO |
Enforce the rule and it is hoped that i
will he recalled. The rule is intended i
o protect the sheep industry. but it is
declared that it will have an opposite
ffeCt