El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-05
Stock Notes.

Stock Notes.
The Kansas City stock yards comps
ny has voluntarily reduced its charge
for feeding cattle awaiting shipment
It has reduced its charges for feedin,
corn from 81 to 60 cents per bushel, an(
for hay from 81 to 80 cents per 1O(
pounds.
During the last ten months over l..
600, 900 cattle have been taken to feed
ing points in the different states, from
the four principal markets.. During the
corresponding period last year there
were only 697, 900 sent out, and during
the same period in '95, 552, 900 was the
sum total.
The Texes Stock and Farm of q re.
cent date says: Zone of the most not
able transactiors during this or any
season was the recent sale of 1900
of this and next years branding for
S17 per head" The report of the sale
says: 1.-Two years ago calves of this
age had practically no market value In
this section and were thrown in with
the Gales of older cattle.''
The Gordon, Nebraska, Journal, de-
poses and says: "The editor sold q
few steers this week that netted him
just { 50 head after paying for the
steers and cost OF keeping the past
newspaper In wind and promises, by
a burned sight. Hereafter we shall
raise more steers and less sheol with
the pops. 1t pays better in the long
run.''
Texas ranges have needed an oppor-
tunity to recover from the effects of
OverstockinR and of serious drouths of
recent years. The abundant rain of
the season just closing have put the
grass in better condition
than 1t has been in
to the plains began and 80 great is the
of cattle that there is little
danger OF overstocking again for sew
eral years.-Texas Stock and Farm
Journal.
Following are the subjects to be dis
cused by the Live Stock association at
San Antonio in January: "Exporta-
tiOn of cattle from Texas pOrts;"
What are the Best Breeds for Beef?"
"Shall our Legislature be Petitioned
to Pass a Scalp Law?" Is the Tick
the Sole Carrier of Splenetic Fever?''
"In view of the value of Cotton Seed
Advisable to Curtail the Cotton acre
age in this State?" "Discusslon of any
Subject of Interest or Importance to
the StOckmen of the State"
Cattle from the United States have
for long time been arriving at En-
elish ports in such good condition that
there ts neither need nor desire to fur
ther fatten them before killing. II is
not the came with cattle from South
America and Canada. About one
third of the South America cattle
shipped to London and Liverpool in
1896 from the River Platte were sold
at from to 6 cents per pound, while
cattle from the United States were
bringing from to 10 cents per pound.
There is likely to be q conflict be-
tween the cattlemen and sheepmen in
the northern part of the territory.
There is already more or less=he1s1lnu
ing growing out Of the passage Of
large bands of sheep from Coconino,
Navajo and Apache counties to the
Salt River valley. The cattlemen COM
plain that they are devastating the
cattle ranges. A band of say 1000
sheep moving at rate of about seven
miles q day leaves little in its wake,
and that little is disdained by the cat
tie. If the sheepmen would follow one
trial, the cattlemen say they would
not complain, but instead of
doing that the flocks parallel esch other
snd the waste and ruin IL extensive.-
POeenix ReD.