El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-25
} Farm and
Ranch.

Range horses in Arizona are being
sold by the carload at $3.50 per head
and shipped by spectators into Kan
sas.-Ex.
Cowmen are beginning to talk S18
and $40 for their yearlings and don't
seem anxious to hunt buyers even at
those fgures.-Texss Stockman.
For the first twenty-one days of this
month there were received on the Den
yer market IL, 59S sheep; the same pc
Rod last year, 6,327, showing an in
crease of 8,271 for this year.-Ex.
ella county, Arizona, through her
board OF supervisors recently paid out
q neat sum of county funds for bounty
on predatory animals. Ten lion scalps
at $40 each and nine bear scalps at $40
each was the record.-Ex.
In Rio Arriba county, New Mexico.
sheep and cattle are doing we'll, but
the crops OF wheat and other cereals
are small on account of the cold and
dryness of the early summer months
Chicago Drovers' Journal.
Lamb growers are crowding the east.
ern markets pretty heavily these days
They undoubtedly appreciate the fact
that the spring lamb is getting to an
age when his value will be far below
that of full muttons.-Ex.
The cattlemen of the Black Range
country, in southern New Mexico, have
organized and offered Q reward of $50
in addition to the territorial bounty
for each wolf that is killed. Large
wolves are killing many cattle in that
section.-Ex.
If q big run of hogs don't soon start
In the packers will begin losing money.
They undoubtedly were we'll stocked
up with the cheap stock they bought
three months ago, but the high priced
enough, and the holiday season
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year, with their poultry consumption
are close at hand. just now it looks
as if anticipated profits were going to
be shaved. Denver Stockman.
1t has developed that the Kansas
spring buyers of southern cattle have
| now become fall buyers. They are In
New Mexico now by the dozens buying
yesrlings for fall delivery to 60 on
Kansas pastures to take the place of
the cattle they will sell as feeders to
the corn men. The demand for feeders
fall in the corn belt and adjacent there
to, and the yearlings that were shipped
up this spring will be drawn on quite
| heavily for baby beef.-Ex.
The Colorado live stock sanitary
| board is going after the railroad COM
panies with a sharp stick. II has
learned that two roads have been VIC
lating the government regulations in
regard to cleaning cars after shipping
sheep into the state, and before the
cars are sent back after more stock.
Scab is easily communicated by this
| negligence. Both the state and ma
tionai laws insist on the cleanliness of
the cars and our board will see to it
that the law is observed.-Farm and
Ranch.
mer that on those ranges where sheep
have grazed there il no Russian thistle
left to defile the face of nature and
give worriment to adjacent property
owners. Sheep are death to young and
tender thistles of all kinds and they
seem to dote on the Russian variety.
| Down in Cheyenne county. q rancher
has been cutting Russian thistle this
| summer and stacking it for winter
roughness. He has found that It does
all right for forage when cut and put
up early. It is now rather too late this
season to try it.-Ex.
The report has reached The Stock
man that the Platte alley Sheep COM
pany of Wyoming has purchased from
Henry M. Porter of Denver that gen.
tleman's big New Mexico sheep ranch
| and stock, and also has secured an op-
ton on another sheep ranch belonging
to Mr.. Porter on the Trinchero. The
first mentioned property is in Guada
| trolls zoe, 900 acres of grazing land, and
| contains 1900 ewes and 10, 900 lambs;
the last mentioned property contains
20, 600 sheep and some cattle. The
amount of money involved in the deal
has not been learned, but it is known
that last spring Mr.. Porter refused
$50, 900 for the New Mexico property.
With q decrease for the year so far
of $4,000 to 60, 600 cattle at the leading
markets compared with last years
light marketing, the people who look
for anything but a continuation of the
high prices for good grades have very
little on which to base their arguments.
Even the common cattle, while they
are and will sell badly in comparison
with good cattle, are, and probably will
sell well compared with other years.
There are lots of low grade native cat
tie, but the supplies of western range
cattle, which make most trouble for
them, are certainly against advancing
prices, OUT IL n6en't Oeen Detter since
cattle fret began to be used as food an
imals.-Chicago Drovers' Journal.
The Carson News tells of an organ
lied band of cattle thieves in Carson
valley, Nevada, which has prey
ed systematically upon the
stock of the cattlemen in that
section. The headquarters of the gang
is supposed to be business house in
the valley whose legitimate trade would