Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-16
RANCH AND RANGE
Reports From the Prosperous Cattle,
Sheep and Ranch Owners Of
New Mexico.
A HEAVY ALFALFA YIELD
Experiment In Sorghum In Ohaves County
The Oudahy Packing Company Has
Employed Sheep Buyer-Oat-
tie Shipments.

Alfalfa throughout the Pecos valley is
yielding heavier than for any preceding
year in it's history. On some places it
has already been cut twice.
w. G. Urton, of Chaves county, is
said to have refused an offer last week
from Kansas and Missouri parties of
SIS for ones and $21 for twos.
Sheepmen in Roswell and its vicinity
give the yield of lambs at 80 per cent
on the average, and wellknown cattle
men who are authorities place the calf
crop at the same figure.
George M. Slaughter and DR.. G. T..
Veal have received seventy bushels of
sorghum seed, bought by the former at
Amarillo, and will SOW it on their farm
two and half miles east of Roswell.
Sowing 20 pounds to the acre, they will
have seed enough to SOW 210 acres-fine
stock fodder.
Last year a fine Shorthorn COW be-
longing to Capt. ]. w. James, of Chaves
county. dropped two fine bull calves and
raised them. Last week she dropped
another fine pair of bull calves, and the
captain now rates her as double first
class, and hopes the habit has become
fixed.
Capt John G. Clancy, of Puerto de
Luna, went down the Pecos into Chav-
es county last week. He says this has
been prosperous year. so far, for the
sheep men, and he does not think there
is much danger of the people of the
United States voting next fall for a
change. He saved 80 per cent of his
lambs this year, and now has over 2O,-
900 head of sheep in his herds.
buffalo" Jones, who is going to run
the buffalo ranch in New Mexico next
year, is at present out hunting noun
tain sheep in Colorado for the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington, and
has secured a buck lamb about one
month old. 1t was caught at Redstone.
Miss Olive Jones, daughter of the hum
ter, who is with the party, made the
capture. She was swung out over
cliff, and found the animal in a crevice.
New Mexico sheep raisers will be in
terested in learning that the Cudahy
Packing Company has placed sheer
buyer at the Kansas City yards, and
has given him orders to buy sheep
William P. Aull will have charge of the
buying. Sheep men have long beer
waiting for the Cudahys to place buy
er there, and now that the hope is full
filed. they expect to see an improve
| ment in the market. Cudahy's mar
says he will take about 1000 head 6
week.
The estimates made of the cattle
shipments for the year from the Peco'
valley will prove correct The number
was placed at 22O 900 head from all sta
tions. The pens at Carlsbad have al
ready loaded 10000 head. Sug Robertson
alone, of the HAT" ranch, shipping
| 1880 head. Prices range from $17 TO
yearlings to 1923 to $26 for twos ant
threes. Aged steers are not for sale ap
parently, anyway none have gone on
| thus far. The range Is in fine order, AM
| cattle and sheep are doing we'll every
where. Sheepmen say that lambs wer
born this year half grown. That state
ment, of course, Is purely the result o
excited imagnations. but there Is M
doubt that flocks and herds all look ex
ceptionally we'll.