El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
Live Stock.

Carlsbad, N M.-ClebUrne Herald.
With over $4,000 head of cattle OF
four Eastern markets it is not eur
prising quotations sagged of some
Dry pastures in the East are driving
them to the scales.-Denver Stock
man.
Bill Ross of Arno sold 461 head of l,
2 and year old steers this week to w
J. Joseph q Son, of DeGraf, Kansas, q,
SI6, $40, and 1924. The cattle were de-
livered here Wednesday for shipment.
I-Pecos Times.
Four thousand cattle belonging &c
Swift & Co. broke away from the cow
boys near Ell Reno, 0. T., on the Look
canyon, pilinR on each other, and fifty
were killed.-Bonham News.
| Cattlemen of the Pecos valley and
| other ranges in New Mexico are advo-
eating lease law. They claim that it
will not only benefit the territory in a
financial way, but will also be an in
ducement to the cattlemen to make i'm
| provements.-Ex.
Several young cattle in the pasture
of F.. Watt in johnson county were
killed by the extreme heat q few days
ago. Cattle have passed through the
horrid ordeal remarkably we'll, as in
addition to the heat water has been
scarce.-PecOs News,
Bill Kingston and Marvin Pitts pur-
chased 800 head of stock cattle from
Jesse Pruett of Fort Davis last week.
Mr.. Hawkins left town Thursday for
the Kingston ranch, where he will join
Mr.. Pitts and go from there to Fort
Davis to receive the cattle.-Pecos
Times.
F. Hall of M arcelena, near Flores
vile, lost three good mich COWS re-
Gently. They died as the result of eat
ing second gr with sorghum. which
badly affected, but were saved by m Ak
ing them run around at q lively gait
Corsicsna Sun.
Cattle are doing we'll in the country
about Colorado, but there has been so
little wind during the last few weeks
that the windmills have not kept the
water tanks In the pastures supplied.
Some stockmen have sent out horse-
power and gasoline engines to work
the pumps. Herald.
One of the big sheep feeders of Kan
sas isC. w. Southard of Wichita He
will feed 16, 900 this winter near Derby.
During the six months when feeding
will be in progress he expects to use
the immense total of between 3d. 900
and 40, 600 bushels of Sedgwick county
corn. In addition he will feed fully
800 tons of hay, kaffir corn and sorgh-
um in fattening his sheep. In March
he will market them at Kansas City
and Chicago.-Ex.
A statement prepared by the war de-
partment shows that during the month
of June, 1899, there were imported at
the port of Havana ], 131 cows,e 234
calves, 1885 steers, $500 pigs, 493
sheep, 3l9 horses, 3l1 mules and 80
donkeys, making the total imports for
the month %, 958 animals. They were
principally imported from. Southern
ports, including Galveston, Miami,
Pensacola. Expansion is q good thing
for the stockman.-Ex.
Cattlemen of Maricopa county have
decided to cease payment of taxes on
cattle, and have employed an attorney
to act in their behalf, says the Stafford
Arizonian. The contention is that the
Nineteenth legislature passed Q law
that cattle shall be assessed and taxes
collected on them as on real estate.
The deputy sheriffs will have consider
able trouble posting notices on the wild
steers unless that recently invented de-
vice. the flying branding iron, is used.
on the iron and the iron is then thrown
with lariat. Jack Gibson, once q
owboy, but now a liveryman of Phoe-
nix, is the inventor of the flying brand
Ing tron.-Ex.
The cattle that brought the highest |
price of the year on the Chicago |
market were q bunch of Aberdeen
Angus that sold last week at Sc IS per
VT. They were fed by John McFall
IF Terre Haute. Ind, averaged 1, 494
pounds and there we're twenty-eight
head In the bunch. They we're the
best bunch of cattle marketed this
Orovers' Journal, which fact does not
imply an advance, but es-
;ablishes the fact that beef cattle are
Itrong and the best will bring fancy
price, and this fancy price, it is pos
ible, will reach the 81 mark before
he year is out. There will, however,
,e plenty of S6.O0C96.2 cattle.-Denver
'tockman.
In recent report to the Australian
government on "Preventive Inooula-
ion Against Tick Fever" by Frank
ridswell, chief assistant medical Of
icer of the government in speaking of
that possess natural immunity,
,e says: sit must be admitted that
ONE doubt exists in the case of sheep.
The American observers came to the
onclusion that sheep were not
usceptible, but they only report one
experiment. in which blood was inject
d into a lamb. By similar expert
aents on two sheep in Queensland.
Dr.. Hunt set up fever in both. One
covered, and one was killed in
ying state. Postmortem examine
ion did not reveal the characteristic
esion of tick fever, and the examina-
ion for micro-organisms was indefi-
lite. The blood from one of the sheep ,
1jected into bullock produced no