El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-07
Live Stock.


The Fl. Worth cattlemen will no
longer consider proposition to sell
yearl1ngs at S15 per head: S17 fs the
average.-Denver Daily Stockman.
The duty on horses shipped to Cana
da was increased on July to almost
double. Seven dollars per head is now
the lowest valustion.-Denver Stock
man.
The San Angelo Press says the pros-
poets for the sheep business in south
west Texas are such that q man who
cant tell q hydraulic ram from an An
CORA goat can make money at the bus
mess.
State Veterinarian Folsetter of Tex
as was summoned to Katy, Honis coun-
~, Thursday, where It was reported
that number of cattle and horses were
dying. Charlton is believed to be the
disease.-Chicsgo Drovers' Journal,
The Livestock Champion of Texas
positively knows of SIS. 50 per head be.
ing offered for 900 head of good steer
calves at weaving time, and the own.
ers offered to sell at 800, but do not care
to close the deal at those figures
Southwestern Stockmsn.
The live stock inspections made by
JEFF Towner at Las Vegas on behslf of
the Colorado live stock sanitary board
for the month of June 1899, were ST.
4l6 head. During the last fifteen
days OF the month the number of cat
tie inspected was II ,343 head.-Ex.
The usual season of summer rains is
holding out nicely. Frequent showers
have visited all sections of Arizona,
and great good has been done the live
stock and agricultural interests. Feed
and water for the ranges are assured
Tor the fall and winter seasons.-South-
western Stockman.
San Francisco dealers are making q
demand for pigs averaging 100 pounds
live weight. and they want all they can
get. The stock is wanted for the Phi
1pplnes. The numerous army trans
sports now plying the Pacific coast and
the islands are carrying tons of provi-
sions In the way of salt meats principal
ly.-Ex.
Tuberculosis has overtaken the far
famed prize Guernseys owned by ex-
Governor Levi p. Morton, at Ellerslie,
N. Y. The sale of the famous herd at
Guernseys has been postponed to give
the herd clean bill OF health An official
inspection was made last week and IL
was found that large percentage of
the animals, about fifty In all. had tu-
berculosis.-E1.
1t is said the big cattle combine is
assured. Theranch will be 300, 900
acres, presumably the capital syndicate
lands, and it is proposed to place there
on 600, 600 cattle. The combine already
owns 16O. 600 head and have options on
all the additional cattle needed. When
this concern gets down to work, the
small ranch man will have to sell out
or get out.-Farm and Ranch.
Emperor Williams new stables are
to cost nearly 81, SOC, 900 and will accom-
modate 270 horses and 300 carriages.
Two immense riding courses and dwell
lings for fifty families and eighty un-
married employees will be included in
the grounds. The new buildings,
which will not be completed for seve-
"a! years. will eclipse some of the old
more comfortable for man or beast
Elk.
Texas furnishes the market with
not fat cattle. Most of them are ship
ped or driven out of the state to be fed
for market, and the best cattle feed In
the world is shipped from 5000 to 1000
miles to fatten these or other beeves.
The Texas farmer sells his steer for $40
and meal and hulls to fatten him for
$3.50, and forthwith the steer brings
$40. And much of this beef which we
have sent away to be fed and furnished
the feed is slaughtered 1000 miles from
home and brought back in refrigerated
cars and sold to our own people at from
to 10 cents per pound, or about $50
per carcass.-Farm and Ranch.
At present there is every evidence
of shortage of fret class cornfed cat
lie, and the market for beef steers is
IN most healthy condition. Commits
sion men say that q good, strong cattle
and prospects of continued
strength mean a great deal to the pros
oective feeder buyer and encourage
aim to pay prices and take chances he
ordinarily would be unwilling to take.
Under the head of feeders it is said
here Is SO much corn in sight that if
{ were sent to m arket the price would
irop way below the cost of production.
n order to utilize the corn crop the
armer 1s compelled to feed it to hogs
md cattle, and thus secure q good
'rice for his product.-Omaha Bee.
The expectation of horses is gradual
y declining In volume, owing to the
light receipts. Three hundred and
twenty-five horses we're exported from
he Chicago market last week, against
80 head the previous week, and 377head
or the corresponding week last year.
he exports for the season are larger
han last year, compared with the vo-
ame of receipts during the first half of
uly. indicating that the foreign de-
land Ia steady and the export trade
ornament factor in the domestic mar
ct. Many people expected to see the
oreign trade fall of under high prices,
ut the fact is that the old world coun-
lies must come to us for horses re-
srdless Of price. This is the report
rOughs back by some American WISH
,rs abroad this summer.-Breeders
szette.