Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-03-09
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS.

county, recently shipped three cars of
fat meal and hull fed steers and car
of hogs to the Kansas City market
1t is learned that, commencing with
the month Of March, over 300, 900 head
of stock will be moved from southern
and southeast Texas for points in the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma, below
the quarantine line.
Sorghum seed is in very large de-
mand this year, and large acreage Of
this product will be planted, mostly, 1t
is thought, for the feed of the stock
that has come into the western country
during the past three weeks.
The generous rains of the 10th and
18th Of this month removed the fears
of 4 general drouth of the farmer and
cattlemen alike, for the situation was
beginning to assume a serious aspect
for both, but it is quite clear from
the reports of those who have recently
The Eagle Pass district, on the
Southern Pacific, is credited with a
sheep deal of unusual magnitude for
that section. A herd, consisting of 49,
900 head and an unexpired lease, was
sold for $4,000, the sheep being count
ed in $3.50 a head, sharp advance
on stock sheep in that locality.
Scharbauer & Waddell, of Midland,
recently sold 2SOO head of we'll bred
stock cattle to Davidson & Siders at $25
head. This was the herd that John
Scharbauer bought of Wilkins Bros,
of Crockett county, some months since,
at price considerably lower than that
which they realized for the herd.
The following amounts have been
assessed by the commissioners court
of Midland as the valuation Of cattle
and live stock generally: Native cows
$12, 2-year-olds SIG, IS $40, stock
horses So, saddle horses SIS and sheep
$1.50. Average lands 81 per acre, wire
fences $25 mile and wind mills at
$40 each. About the same figures were
fixed by the adjoining counties.
visited the cattle ranges that 1t will
not be long before another rain would
be very welcome The mild winter
has been specially favorable to young
stock as well as to the great number
of southern cattle that have gone into
northern Texas during the past six
months, and now should the pleasant
he I'D hrr %trua
rain within a reasonable time all fears
of the farmer regarding his crop and
the stock breeder as to his water sup
ply will be dlAsipated,
Between 100 and 200 cars OF cattle
will so from Texas to the Cherokee
nation. beginning about April rs. OF
these ITO cars will 20 from Hebronville
and so from the Brentwood country.
The quarantine law is strictly enforced
in the territory by tho different ma
lions and the Cherokee quarantine
closes on the date named above. This
accounts for the extra movement Of
cattle just prior to that time. Tho
quarantine law has been pretty lax
heretofore but 1t will be different this
season, with government endorsement
Recent sales of Texas cattle In Kan
sas show that stock from that state
is meeting with better reception at
the big markets than II did year ago.
A sale was made at the yards in Kan
sas City recently Of small bunch Of
Texas steers averaging 1416 pounds at
$3.50. which was the very top price
obtained for that class of stock on
that day. The cattle came from West
Texas. 1t is becoming apparent to
northern buyers that Texas cattle are
being rapidly bred up, and the grade
shipments already made this year have
shown such wonderful Improvement
over the old-timers that their bringing
top prices is scarcely to be wondered
at
No people in any age of the world
have been so successful as breeders
and improvers Of poultry as the Amer
leans. They have done more In the
Last twenty-five years than all the other
nations, from Noah's flood to the be-
ginning of the last bird Of the nine
tenth century. The Chinese have
been breeding the Asiatic fowl for per-
haps 10000 years, and Americans took
them up and improved them more in a
few years than the Chinese had done
in many ages. We took the French and
Italian breeds that had been worked
on for century and half by the
best in Europe, and in a few years had
better breeds from them than the
French or italians ever saw. We have