El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-18
Live Stock.

Stock IN the BeeVllle SectlOn le6a'
is fariug we'll.
Many sheep have recently beer
drawn into Eddy, N. NJ, district te
feed on alfalfa.
San Angelo, Texas, shipped SO2 cars
of cattle last month being an excess
over April, 1898, of 357 cars.
1t said there are between $4,000
and go, OcO head of cattle in the Ponce
and Otoe reservations.-Ex
pLleno county, Texas, stockmen say
the rain has benefited the grass &c
much at cattle are improving every
day.-Ex.
The Sacramento Chic says rough
estimate places the number OF cattle
head: horses 5000; and sheep 35, OOO
head.
Som ething like 1000, 900 horses are
owned in Texas, but large per cent of
these are unstable and not worth the
grass they consume in single year.
Texas Stockman.
Several Globe, Arizona, cattlemen
recently went to San Carlos to get
holding for pastursge feee. 1t is re-
ported that they demand so cents per
hea6.-Ex.
A good many North Dakota sheep
men are sowing rape on great scale
and lam rs next fall The North Dako-
ia sheepman is generally pretty near
the head of the procession.
Colorado fed lam BIS are still selling
above cents in the marke., and the
indications are that they will 90 even
higher before the mooth Is over. Some
prophets are predicting I cents in June
as the top of the lamb market.
L. c. Wall of Scarborough & Wall.
who are feeding cattle at Corsicana,
Texas, shipped out nine carloads of
fat bulls over the Texas Central, Mid
land ard Frisco lines. Three loads OF
the cattle 60 to st. Louis and six to
Kansas City.-Excb.
Had the ranges in the west been
crowded with cattle, as they have
often been in the past, the most wild
eyed estimates of losses would have
been no exaggeration. but happily the
average loss has not been great,
though bad enough. Drovers
j Journal. |
The case of the Sheep Sanitary
Board of the territory of New Mexico
We. G. S. Long, on the docket at Albu-
uuerque This case WAS brought for |
the recovery of S400 fees for the in
spection of defendants sheep by one
OF the insp actors of the bosrd.-Las
Vegas Optic.
Henry J. Kitten has sold bis big |
ranch north of Aztec to Messre. Da-
lors, S.edele and others from Central
City, Col, the amount paid-35eO-
. oOh nj m
he place. This sale involves the set
Element of large colony In the Ami
mas valley.-Ex.
TIE receipts so far this month show
sn increase ali along the line, as COM
nared with the same period last year.
In cattle there is an increase of ia;
hogs. 1876, sheep, 2,O74. For the year
to date there is an increase OF 6,O7!
cattle, 1882 hogs, and decrease OF
Gil sheep. Stockman.
The recent army beef scandals have
had most depressing effect upon the
market and pa bic taste for nearly all
forms of preserved beef and can hard
w fail to greatly stimulate the de mand
for mutton. A 20 per cent Increase In
mutton consumption this year over any
former year ehould surprise nobody
Denver StOckman.
Northern rargemen must either buy
Southern cattle this spring or go With
put. They are all anxious to buy, but
sre a little afraid to risk the prices.
Eighteen dollars for yearllngs and 81
Tor 2-year-olds should be a safe price to
invest at, considering the bright out
look for the next two or three years at
Stockman.
At recent meeting of the American
jersey Cattle club held in New York
The secretary reported that during the
year 3 300 bulls and 9,431 cows were
which Is a decreA-e com
pared with the previous year. The
falling off is attributed to the rules re-
ysrding pasture service. E. A. Darl-
ng was selected president and hiram
Hitchcock trea=urer.-Ex.
A good many new men are going in
20 the sheep business and are buying
-aucnes all over the country. They
igure that the sheep will pay ~ per
lent Annually, while cattle cannot as
sure N ore tn AN 10 per cent at best for
returns quicker money and
here is not go much loss by rustl1ng.
Denver Field aud Farm.
The re ceipts at the Sioux City Stock
yards for the month of April show an
ncreLse of II, 11S cattle and PA
,1eep and decrease of l, 032 hogs, rs
with the same month last
ear The total receipts for the four
months of this year are 13l, 1893 cattle,
l52, 734 hogs, 1874 sheep, 392 horses
and mules, brought in by 5,5!2 cars. AS
comp red with the four months last
year thew show an increase of 29,5lo
.at Il, 1926 hogs, 6,052 sheep, III
horses AID mules and l III cars.-EZ.
TIE popularity about the spring
lamb trade is that the lambs have