Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-29
STOCK NOTES.

DrOughts in New South Wales hav,
decimated the stock there.
Sheep are given the preference b,
stock raisers in San Miguel county.
The lambing season is on at Lake Ar
thur where the -Prager-M
sheep are herded.
John Stone of Chaves county, has fin
ished lam bing 1000 ewes on alfalfa ant
reports 100 per cent. increase.
Charles Russell, manager of the On
derdonk ranch, near Lamy, will NOV,
his family to the ranch next month.
Chaves county stockmen will feeC
their own lambs this year. Last season
5000 head were shipped from that
county.
The Kansas and Colorado sanitary
boards have approved of the sanitary
inspection of cattle and the new law is
now in force.
G. w. Haynes has moved 300 head OF
cattle from the Captain Orchard com
pany's inclosure near Roswell to his
pastures on the Rio Hondo.
Frank Garst has purchased 25 head OF
Hereford bulls, at Coldwater, Kan
They will be used to improve his range
catte on the Blue Water ranch, in Dona
Ana county.
The Maxwell Land Grant company
has purchased 10000 head of cattle from
southern New Mexico and Arizona
points and placed them Oh their Colfax
county range.
Cattle buyers are requesting an ex-
tension of time on contracted April de-
liveries, because banks refuse to ad-
vance money on account of the war
with Spain.
P. j. Towner, territorial cattle in
spector, has inspected 24,961 head of
cattle that passed over the Santa Fc
road eastbound during the past month.
OF the number, 5000 were inspected
during last week.
About 125,OOO feeding lambs and
wethers will be shipped to Colorado and
Kansas feeding points from Clayton this
year. A great number of them will be
drifted across the country from south
ern New Mexico and Texas.
R. +. Barnett has purchased l4O thor
oughbred mares, with young colts, 80
yearlings, 80 y earling mules, 2 imported
Cleveland bay stations, 2 thoroughbred
jacks and jenny of the American Pas
toral company of Amarillo. The stock
will be delivered to his Chaves county
ranch, May Is.
Farmers and stockmen in the terri
tory are sowing vast amount of al
falfa this year and it is estimated that
the yield will be fully three times as
much as last year. THIS means ahat q
greatly increased number of sheep and
lambs will be fed in New Mexico for the
market instead of sending them to Colo
RADIO and Kansas. 1t is only matter
of time before the cost of feeding else
where will be done away with and New
Mexico will produce profusion of feed
for the stock in the territory.
An exchange says of horse breeding:
every day the reports from centers of
horse breeding and horse dealing show
that the demand for good horses is out
OF all proportion to the supply. The
several classes that are wanted are
bringing readily such prices as are sat
isfactory to the producer. But more
than ever before, the active demand is
for certain we'll defined types. Common
scrub horses are. just as worthless now
as ever and it is simply foolish waste
of grass to raise them at all. The coun-
try would be better off If canneries
could be started to use up all of them
and sell them to any of the foreign peo-
pie who have no prejudice against horse
meat"