El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-17
Live Stock.


The full quota of 200, 900 Utah sheep
allowed to Craze on the Uintah forest
reserve has been made up. They will
be allowed on the reserve for sixty
days.
From the Southwestern Stockmap:
According to the local press from the
several sections of Arizona, the calf
crop this year exceeds that of several
years past.
81. A. Ringer, of Hillsboro, for him
self and others, made shipment of
l, 100 feed cattle from Oceola on Tues
day. The cattle go to Garden City, Kas.,
and were rounded up on the range be-
tween Hillsboro and the Macheo.
The most profitable pig is the one
that weighs 200 pounds at 6 months old.
Two such lots can be produced in one
year and they will bring more money
for the amount of feed consumed than
one lot weighing 400 pounds at q year
old.
You can easily build up hieh-clsss
herd by spaying all the off-colored and
inferior heifer calves. You can do
this and yet stock up your range soon
enough. In the long run there is big
money In giving the range plenty Of
rest.
The total receipts at the Sioux City
stock yards for the month of July were
1851 cattle, so, 1852 hogs, 1920 sheep,
showing decrease of 4, 206 cattle and
143 sheep and an increase of II, 617 hogs,
compared with the same month last
year.-Ex.
A number of trotting and running
horses are on the grounds of the Den
fnv nfry
soc1atlon In training for the racing
contests of the approaching fair, and
the track is being put in excellent con-
dition.-EX.
County Clerk W. c. McFall of
of 500 head of Angora goats from
Doughten & Mitrell of Hood county,
the consideration being $1,000. Mr..
McFall has recently sold his stock cat
tie and will place goats on his ranch
-Denison Herald.
The rapid rise in wool is going to
help in strengthening the price of
southern lamb this fall. The Mexican
figures that the quality of his fleece is
such that he can afford to hold his
lambs, but If the northern lamb feeder
wants his stock he Is going to insist on
part payment for the wool.
Six hundred fine mules have been
crossed at Laredo, bought and raised
in Neuces and Duval counties, under
contract with this government. These
animals will be shipped on steamers
from the port of Tamp ico. Several hun
dred more will pass through in q few
days for the same destination .-Sher-
man Register.
Cattle are not selling at the highest
prices of the year because the best
cattle are not coming. The good cat
The high prices for good cattle are at
tracing great many unfinished and
shortfed cattle that do not reach the
expectations of shippers.-Chicapo
Drovers Journal.
r. E. Mutt, of Belville, Texas, who
has been in the cattle business in west
ern Texas for fifty years, believes that
stock cattle will advance rather than
recede in price. He also thinks that it
is more profits BILE to market S12 calf
than to raise and sell 2-year-old at
$50. He thinks calves should be sold
and the ranges saved for breeders.
Although timothy hay is preferred
for horses and clover for COWS, yet Glow
err hay that has been cut just as the
heads we're beginning to turn brown,
and which has been we'll cured, Is much
more nutritious than timothy, and the
sadly cured clover lay, however, is
to horses more than to COWS.
Denver Stockman.
Frank Arson of Coleman sold, last
his 1899 crop of bull calves,
Der l delivery. This is the highest
price of that number and class of cat
tie that has ever been paid in Texas.
This sale, which breaks the record,
will have tendency to boom the cat
tie business in this section to q great
Angelo Standard.
With big crops of hay and corn and
Au acknowledged scarcity of lambs in
Southern Colorado and New Mexico,
and with Kansas and Nebraska sharply
for what there are, the out
ook for the Poudre valley feeder is by
no means bright one. One thing is
certain, the feeding pens will contain
out few southern lambs next winter,
with the number of last
Collins Courier.
Men who ship in grass hogs and
pigs of their OVID raising and feeding
get more mopey for them than choice |
,orn-fed hogs were selling for month |
Aeo, ou1 CLose WIN Ouy grass Jugs duo
pigs for shipment must expect to lose |
! bag of money If they pay more for
hem in the country than they are |
known to be worth on the market. |
Grass pigs can be safely considered |
worth a cent pound less than choice |
native corn fed pigs.
The order for the admission into |
Cuba free of duty of graded cattle from
Texas for breeding purposes has beer
ssued. It restricts the period of ad-
mission until July l next. Cattle |
shall be entered only at Havana, Glen
ueROs, NuevitOs, and MapZ8nilla