El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-22
Live Stock.

David Blanton, Portales sheep
breeder, has inc lot of sheep that
shear eight pounds.-Ex.
Cattle are being shipped from Dun
can, Ariz, into New Mexico to escape
the drought.-Tucson Citizen.
Upward of 200 head of cattle have
been shipped out of this county within
the past week on account of the dry
weather.-Prescott Arizona Journal
Miner.
There is a great scarcity OF water In
Southern Chihuahua, Mexico, and II
there is not rain soon it is feared there
will be heavy losses among stock
Mexican Herald.
Within the past week peculiar
plague has appeared in Lamar county.
Texas, among cattle, many dying.
They begin to droOp suddenly, run
bloody water at the nostrlls anc ole
within day or two.-Texas Ranch
man.
When hogs are low in price is bad
time to go out of the business. Enough
people will 60 out of the business or
shor ten production, to bring the price
I'D again for the benefit Of those pre-
pared to receive it.-F'arm and Ranch.
It is currently reported that Texas
has an excess of feed over cattle TO
consume it of from 25 to 80 per cent.
If such is the case, and she 1s prepared
to feed all the cattle ready for that
stage what is the Northern feeder 60
ing 20 do?.-Denver Stockman.
With the beef market averaging
SIS %, hogs S4.35, feeder steers So. 90,
CRASHED cattle 81 80 mutton 81 10,
breeding stock bringing better prices
than it has for ten years, the STOCK
raiser and the feeder is enjoying bit
of prosperity that makes him feel like
a new man. And the year is not yet
closed.-Ex.
The Kansas live stock SAM tary com.
mission has decided to quarantine
against infected cattle from the dairy
states, particularly Illinois, iowa, In
diana, Michigan, Ohio, New York and
Pennsylvania. This is done largely
with q desire to retaliate against IL
linois and Iowa, which have been es-
pecially rigid in quarantining against
Kansas cattle.-Ex.
At Chicago last Friday hogs reached
the highest price of the year. Mixed,
mediums and butchers sold at $4,000
AS, largely at S4.35(d4.374; heavy
packing and shipping largely at 81. 80
(04 40, extreme range being 81 2OCd4. 40,
for heavy and fancy medium weights,
81 42t for pigs: inferior to fancy light,
s4.2504.424: largely at s4.3O(d4.40.-
Denver Stockman.
A eve owned by William June of
Athens. Pa, at the age OF one year
the age of months weighed 80, So and
los pounds. The fleece of all the sheep
weighed lO1 pounds, and the same day
the lambs were weighed the eve
weighed los pounds. Another litter
of lambs made their appearance at the
end of eleven months, making six in
side the year.-Ex.
Texas reports strong advance in
the prices demanded for cattle down
there. AS yet we have seen no sales at
the advanced prices and the truth of
the matter is that there is plenty of
good grass and the stockmen are not
anxious to sell. On this market prices
on southern cattle are about steady,
though they may be called firm. At
least there has been no noticeable ad-
vance.-Deuver StOckmsn.
Sheepmen in some parts of the ter
rritory are finding reason to complain
of the oppressive rules enforced in the
forest reserves, of which there are sew
eral now. Men who are striving for a
livelihood find it hard to appreciate
why they should give way in the in
terests of people who are to live five
centuries hence. The situation suggests
one of the bulls of the famous Burke, a
mem Der of parliament. In a speech
he said: Sir, under what obligat ions
ity done for us?''-Arizona Range
News.
When q sheep eats well and appears
all right until it breathes hard, walks
stiffly, then falls and tries to eat dirt,
it is suffering from acute indigestion
The treatment is to give it four ounces
of EPSON salts dissolved in water, add
ing half teaspOonful of ground gin
ger. The feed should be changed, and
if dry grain is used, change it to bran
and linseed mash,i which give level
teaspoonful of an even mixture of
finely powdered sulphate of iron, gin
ger and gentian. Continue this for
week or experimentation Sheep
Breeder.
The National Live Stock Reporter
says: Atan experiment in Cumberland,
England, thirty lambs, half-bred Che
ed into two lots. Both were turned
into yellow turnips and given all the
hay they could eat, but one lot receiv-
ed in addition one-half pound Hnseed
oil cake and one-fourth pound of oats
per day for each lamb. They were fed
this way eight weeks. AT the end of
that time it was found that the cake
and oat-fed sheep had eaten S10.60
worth of food and the others 1920,
making the cost of cake and oats $40.
But they found that the granted
lambs made Sl5.12 worth more of NUT
ton in the time, showing a profit of
S7.12 above cost of extra feed given.
This scores one in favor of liberal feed
ing of rich foods.