El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-13
Live Stock.

TX Live STOCK.
Star Pointer 1854 will go against his
record at Terre Haute during the Sep
TENDER meeting.-Ex
James Peppers, the we'll known
Kimble county, Tex, stockman, sold
100 3s and up for S2700.-Ex.
Payne & johnson of San Angelo Tex.
sold to Frank Russell a, registered.
Hereford bull calf for S15O.-Ex.
| G. Peterson of Brigham City, Utah,
has just sent 4, 200 spring lambs to the
eastern markets. The lambs are in
prime condition.-Ex.
| The Abbot and Hal B. are still the
I'M beaten champions of 1899. Both of
these great horses have won seven
| consecutive races.-Ex.
Four thousand cattle belonging
to Swift & Co. broke away from the
cowboys near Ell Reno, o. T. on the
Looking Glass pasture. They ran into
q canyon, piline on each other, and fifty
we're killed.-Ex.
The Ell Captain land and cattle COM
pany o Lincoln county, New Mexico,
| Ia reported to have sold its immense
ranch and all cattle to thesLoving syn
dictate. The company marketed 10000
cattle last spring. The concern was
late 81. K. Thurber.-Denver stock
man.
| The sheep on the summer range in
the high mountains will soon be turn
ed backward to Craze gradually down
to the valleys for the winter. The
movement downward begins with the
fret and it may be two months before
| the winter bad ground is reached. This
BY stem prevails in Europe and in adopt
toms of the age since David was q shep-
herd and Abraham owned hocks and
ran them in the land of Gerar.-Den-
yer Field and Farm.
Cattlemen in the west are being
warned by commission men against
shipping unripe steers to market.
HABITAT cattle endanger prices and
may cause a break in the present fsv-
orable market. The highest prices
realized for range cattle at Chicago
this season were obtained by the
Standard cattle company for Montana
and Wyoming steers, the price being
IS 25. Later this week the Ores we'll
cattle company sold some 1913 pound
steers at IS. 35. They were South
Dakota grassers.-Spriuger Stock
man.
The woods of New Mexico are alb
undant but of q coarser fiber than
those of more northern districts.
Taking advantage of this fact the
large wool securing plant at Albuquer-
que is now purchasing machinery for
the equipment of blanket factory at
that place. Beside the manufacture
/ of blankets they will also manufacture
carpets and other coarser fabrics for
which the woods are apparently we'll
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been interested in the enterprise and
it promises to be q success.-New
Mexican.
and let the buyer do his own shipping
without going to the grief of paying
commissions and . lot of other fancy
expenses. Colorado is overerun with
buyers this fall. They are just dying
to get the stuff and are paying all
advertise what they have to sell in the
live stock journals the buyers would go
to them and there would be no need of
railroadinR the stock off to the open
market, there to fall prey to the mys-
terious workings of the Big -Four
bilene Times.
| The next perceptible scarcity in
western livestock will appear among
range horses for they are going very
rapidly and nothing 10 being bred to
replace those that are shipped to mar
ket in such large numbers. The world
has suddenly developed great appeti-
tie for horses, and buyers are especially
particular as to quality. Anything
| with q leg at each corner seems to go,
and even the United States cavalry Of
ficers who are buying are not nearly so
fastidiOus as to their tastes as they
were six months ago. The world moves
right along and the demand is the in.
centive by which trade fs largely gov
erned. But what are we to do for
horses ten years hence:-Pecos Times.
The csstration of lambs is most gen.
orally done in a bungling way and bet
ter methods of performing the opera
ton would be reform. The lamb is
susceptible to blood poisoning and the
fatality is largely due to the introduce
ton of septic matter from the instru-
ments or hands or to the bottom of the
wound. These things guarded against,
lambs can be castr:ted with but little
risk. All instruments can be disinfect-
ed by heat. The most convenient way
is to immense them in csrbOlic acid or
for few minutes In boiling water.
The operators hands may be disinfect-
ed by the use of carbolic acid, creolin,
chloro-naphtholeum. thymocresol or
corrosive sublimate solutions in the
strength of two percent solution wa
ter.-Ex.
The prices which prevail at the pres
emit time fare the best that have been
known since the depression which
etarted as early as 1885, and the gen.
eral condition of the market on both
stock and beef cattle is of most satis-
factory character to those who are en-
l