El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-11
Live Stock.

report that pool has been formed for
the purpose of purchase.-Fx.
The three Cornell ranches, north
of Fort Bayard, with one thousand
head of cattle, have been sold TO
Thomas Harrington. The iconsidera-
ticn was $4,000 spot cash.-Ex-
change.
Butchers say there is q scarcity OF
cattle for slaughter in the market,
largely on account for heavy shipments
of feeders to Kansas, and other north
ern states, and there is slow put
steady tendency to higher prices.-Ex-
| change.
Sheep shearing in the Salt River
valley has been concluded, and focks
are making their slow way back to
northern Arizona. The wool crop has
been large one, though the prices
are less than known for several years
past. Range News.
Geo. S. Gayle, United States report
er of statistics OF Jack county Texas,
after careful investigation. reports the
loss of cattle at ID to every 100 head.
He also reports cattle at this time in
| fair condition and improving rapidly.
Farm and Stock Reporter.
One of the latest cattle deals report
ed was the sale OF al the holdings OF
the Crowfoot Cattle Company of Sill
yer City, N. NJ, to w. 81. Jack, who
has been the manager OF the company.
There were about 400 cattle in the deal
and the price was Sl5 all around with
the calves thrown In. The deal
Stockman.
animals were slaughtered in the
slaughter houses of the City of Mexico.
OF these 500 were beeves. 9,342 were
sheep and 5, TO were hogs. About 200
animals were found affected with di-
sease and condemned. OF these 166
were hogs. The sanitary inspectors
found many cases of decomposed meat
being cold at butcher shops, and in
other cases the carcasses of diseased
animals that had been clandestinely
slaughtered were being sold.-Mexlcan
Herald.
Sheep in the neigh borhood of Las
rapidly with some strange disease
which is being Investigated by State
Veterinarian Creswell. The Denver
Stockman says: They first refuse to
eat or drink, have no appetite at all
and after few days the joints in the
legs stiffen and they topple over and
die. The ewes are the greatest suffer
ers. It is believed that the hard win
ter is partly responsible for the
trouble. Coming in from the range in
weak condition and being deprived
of exercise the animal becomes inert
Roswell Register.
The new sheep sanitary law says that
all sheep in the territory must be
dipped at least once year. in accord
ance with the rules and regulations to
be Established by the board, and shall
be inspected at least once in each year
by the inspector who shall immedia-
tely after each inspection OF any flock
of sheep make report thereof to the
secretary of the board. 1t is also made
the duty of the sheep inspectors to
carefully inspect all sheep about to be
shipped or driven out of the territory,
and no sheep bearing any OF the ear
marks declared in thel law to be
shipped or driven out of the territory,
unless expressly authorized so to do by
the board.-Dona Ana Republican.
The typical Texas steer is passing
away, says the Southern Ruralist. His
long horns are giving place to the short
horn style; his legs are shortened. his
body heavier and he becomes ready for
the butcher in Is months instead of
hog is also becoming.s thing of the
past, replaced by breeds that become
ready for the packer in less than a
year. Texas is progressive state.
Her one crop cotton growers have the
object lesson of her animal farmers
growing richer while they are growing
poorer, Animal farming. with i'm
proved breeds of stock, will put the
south in the foremost of the agricul-
tursl industry of the country.-Yoakum
Herald.
The annual report of the department
of agriculture states that the value of
horses in the United States has in
creased S32 10000 within year, an
average increase of more than 10 per
cent. This has taken place in spite of
the talk of q coming horseless era. |
Cattle. other than milk COWS, increas-
ed 10 per cent in value. Milk COWS |
were worth $50, SOC, 900 more at the end |
of the year than at the beginning. |
Sheep, which could hardly be given
away under the last democratic tariff,
increased in value S14 900, 900, and in
num- Der 1 400, 600. Mules also increas-
ed in value. The total increase in a
year in the value of the domestic
animals is placed at S1O8, 355, 1882,
gain of 5.74 per cent. The party that
prosperity, and was taken at
ts word, has abundautly fulfilled the
pledge, but the measure of it's good
leeds aud beneficial influences is still
bling up.-Arizona Citizen.
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