Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-05-17
STOCK NOTES

Bryan & Badg,t shipped 1000 head
of cattle bought ivom Iachuca A. r..
from the Deming stock yards, during
the week. The stock goes to pastures
in Montana.
There are now only sixty odd cars of
fatted lambs In Weld county. Colo. to
20 to market Some of the feeders are
talking of holding their lambs on feed
until the middle or latter part of May
in spite of the high price of feed.
All sheep men are aware of the fact
that wool from grain fed sheep will out
weigh that grown on the back of hay
fed sheep, but all are not cognzant of
the fact that II VIII outshrink 1t as
well. Sell corn fed wool In the dirt.
Ii is reported that cattle being ship
ped from Arizona points are dying Ia
transit on account of their emaciated
condition. The ranges In Arizona are
| in bad condition. and cattle are being
shipped in order to save as many as
| possible.
The lack of snow last winter had the
effect quite naturally of creating con.
siderable dust on the range and wool
IN not so clean this spring as II might
he Besides an alkali sand accumulates
in the wool and thus not only takes
longer to shear sheep hut the shears
are more rapidly worn out II Us said
that there is great shrinkagc in some
wool. owing to The presence OF this al
kali sand.
Ryan Bros, OF Ieavenworth, Kan
sas. who own and control extensive
ranches in the San Simon valley IN
southwestern New Mexico and south
eastern Arizona. are preparing to make
extensive cattle shipments to Kansas
and Montana. The stock is now being
gathered and II is estimated that be
tween five and s~ven hundred carloads
of cattle will he shipped from their
range within the next few weeks The
shipments will be made over the Bis
bee railroad to Deming. thence going
over the Atchison. Topeka x Santa Fe
railway east. This action of Ryan
Bros. is brought about by the fact that
the range in that section has become
somewhat overstocked and 1t Is neces-
sary to give II rest that grass may
again become plentiful.
Mule raising at the present time is
proving more profitable TO the farmers
than the production of almost any 9th
or kind of stock. The recent wars
immigration and commercial enter.
prises that follow in the wake of war
reconstruct and develop the devastat.
ed territory aud always require much
greater amount of supplies than the
| armies themselves. Such viii he the
case In South AfEica the Philippines
and Cuba. Every New Mexico locality
should have good jack and there Is
no better way than FOR Few men TO
get together and invest 81 GOO In a NAL.
tese gentleman. Such an animal would
add many thousands o! dollars to the
neighborhood each year and will safe
~ pay 10 per cent on the investment
pes annum.
One thing is certain. there will he
plenty of muttons to feed next year.
All this season the country has turned
out but few muttons compared with
the offerings OF lambs The reason for
this state of afiairs Is that western
feeders prefer not TO handle mutaons
unless they can get corn cheap. When
corn is high and lambs cheap as was
the case last fall. feeders go in almost
exclusively for young sheep and leave
the muttons to remain on the range.
The result of this has been that ewes,
wethcrs and aged sheep were kept
themselves during the winter. Next
fall these will he turned In the market
as feeding sheep. and II there is good
corn crop many Kansas and Nebraska
farmers ana the old time sheep feed
ers will get back in line to handle NUT
tons.
Some of the Palo Alto brood mares
were sold at auction In San Francisco
noe long ago. Prices In the main were
not high for the quality of the stock of
fered Elsie. by General Banton, ont
of Elaine, 2:2? brought SITS with
foal at foot by Mckinney few days
old and was called a Il eat bargain.
Bell Bird yearliEg record 2;2GA. by
Electioneer out Of Beautiful Bells by
The Moor, fetched $3.50. J. Il. Haggin
bought the twenty year old stallion Az
moor 2:2ola. by Electioneer. dam
thoroughbred Mamie c. by imp Hercu-
les. for $40. A two year old colt by
Mckinney. 2:i1A. dam She. 2 IL. went
TO Frank ". Convey for $500. Coralia.
by Doodle. 2l2, dam Coral, 2:lSh. by
Electioneer. went to DR.. Ham Mt $500,
the same purchaser got the black
mare. Gorilla. by Dexter Prince. out OF
Lily Thorne. by Electloneer. for $415.
The average for twenty-six animals