Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-20

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second annual convention of the Amer
ican Cattle Growers Association, to
be held in Denver, March 4. next.
John II. Miller's polled Durham COW,
valued at SO. 900 died at Peru. Ind. Feb
ruary 6. The COW was awarded first
prize at the Pan-American exposition.
The big Angus sale at Chicago Feb
ruary 5. was a great one. The i'm
ported bull Prince Ito sold for $1,000
bought by Pierce & Son of Creston. Ill.
An average of $1.0S3.33 was made on
the As mead offered.
At Leila. Texas. Ave or six i-year-old
steers. out Of a small number being
fed. died of a disease that was UNI
known, and an examination of the
meal cake fed them disclosed numer-
Gus bits of steel in various shapes and
sizes.
Col. ID. y. Swearingen of Quanah.
Texas, SOLD 1850 q Y 2-year-old steers
to J.. NJ. Sheldon Of Fort Worth last
week at 1923. This price shows there
will not likely be any uecline over last
years price. he cattle will be ship
ped to Montana in the spring.
The headquarters of the American
Hereford Breeders Association will
not be removed from Kansas City.
Chicago put in a good bid but Kansas
City went a little better. These breed
ers decided to continue their shows
and sales and are beginning to work
up the show for the st. Louis exposi-
ton.
Walter Williams of Cuchillo. n. NJ.
recently shipped ffty-five head of well
bred horses to his father in Cuba. Mr..
Williams has found a market there for
well-bred horses broken to ride at $500
each. The expense of getting them
there, however. is considerable and
there is not much money in the bust
ness.
The Aberdeen Angus heifer, BLACK
Cap Judy" was sold at auction at the
Union stock yards, Kansas City, Feb
ruary 5. to c. H. Gardner of Blandins-
vile. ILL.,, for $4,000. She was bred by
M. A. Judy of Williamsport, Ind. This
makes the female record price of all
record for an Angus was $4,000.
February 25, &c and 81 should be on
every Hereford mans calendar in red
figures, for these are the dates on
which Gudgell & Simpson. Scott &
March, o. Marris, Steward G. Hutch
on. c. A. Stannard, Frank Rockefel-
Ter, Walter B. Waddell and Mrs. C. S.
Cross that they will sell at
Kansas City "the best 200 head of
registered Herefords to be sold during
the year."
Reports from northern New Mexico
indicate DOR enforcement of the law
requiring the dipping of scabby sheep.
An Illinois buyer ~bargained for 4,ovJ
head recently in that part of the terri
tory, and the inspector would not allow
him to ship but 500, the rest being
unfit to ship on account of scab. An
other bunch of 200 head purchaser at
Watrous were refused shipment for
the same reason.
Last Friday at New Castle, Wyom-
ing, a colt was released from a pros
pect hole west of that town. The ami
NAL fell into the hole thirty days ago.
Passing ranchmen made several at
tempts to release the animal, but fail
ed until last Friday. Heavy SHOWS had
furnished an abundance of water for
the colt, but 1t is a mystery how it sur
vived so long without food. When
dragged to the surface the animal
kicked up his heels and dashed off
across the prairie.
The Colorado supreme court has
rendered a decision upholding the live
sum inspection law passed by the leg
islature of that state. The decision
was rendered in the case of Edward
II. Reid, who rushed cattle into Colo
a d from Texas for the purpose of
testing the law. The sentence of six
months in the county jail against Reid
also is affirmed. Reid was backed by
the live stock organization of the coun-
try, which claimed that the federal
inspection laws superseded those of a
state.
The Pacific Northwest Wool Grow
'ers in their meeting at Helena, Mont 8,
last week endorsed the Grosvenor pure
wool bill, nov pending in congress,
also endorsed the bill providing for a
classified census of livestock every
five years; and asked congress to auth
orize federal inspectors to inspect
sheep at any point and to provide Sc
we're penalties for a violation of the in
'spection laws. w. E, Skinner manager
of the international Live Stock expo
sition at Chicago, was endorsed at
this meeting for the position of mana
ger of the live stock show at the st.
Louis exposition. and F. NJ. Malone of
Miles City, Mont. for superintendent
of the same.