Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-21

Feeder sheep are worth from $3.50
TO 50 on the range and, when fat. sell
for IS on the market.
Mrs. J. Wilhelm, of Menard county,
Texas. recently sold 672 steer year
lings at $3.50 around.
2 r Biting shipped two cars of
goats to Kansas City, to be tranship-
pei there to some point in Iowa.
Paul Kroeger was in Carlsbad from
Seven Rivers. and reports that he lost
about 300 sheep in the recent hail
storm
Eanchmen can sell all the COW pom
ies they have these days at good pric-
es. say $40 to S25 and up. according
TO grade.
George Slaughter. of Roswell, sold
J d. Broadman 1000 twos which were
shipped from the slaughter ranch at
Roswell to Montana.
Louis Farmer and Buck %Stobaugh.
of Eddy county, bought the entire
brand of JIM horses, last week, about
100 head, at IS per head.
VIII Turk, of Carlsbad, bought 1000
sheep from lack Wood, about 1000
from Fred Miller and zoo from Joe
Clemens, at 81 and 1920.
Major G. w. Littleield is said to be
the cattle king of Texas. He owns
4U4 900 acres of ranch land in the state
and a ranch in New Mexico.
In the Sacramento mountains of
Otero county the Angora goat men
have a scheme of BREEDING their
goats and running them together at
less expense. Before kidding time
they separate them.
Russell brothers, of Menardville,
Texas, have shipped 5000 cattle. pur-
chased at Roswell, from that town to
Billings, Montana. From Billings lhey
will be driven up the trail to the an
ges near the Canadian border.
The cowboys Of Routt and Rio Blan-
co counties, Colorado, had a wild horse
round up and chased in fifty-six head
which were sold at auction for 1898.
Twenty men were employed for two
weeks and the expenses of the expedi-
ton amounted to 1920.
Bill McLenden has just completed
his task of delivering $50 head of
horses to Willingham & Waller at
Mcmillan. Eddy county, for northern
buyers. They were sold at good ng-
ures. about SIS per head. There are
no flies on the horsemen these days.
The operation of vaccination on ami
NAL for blackleg need not consume
one minute. In November last l13
animals on the Marshall Field ranch
nea Stanton, Nebraska, was vaccinat-
ed with b~lacklegoids in exactly thirty
five minutes. This represents an aver
age of three vaccinations a minute INT
is believed to be the record time Tor
such a performance.
A second dipping should be given for
Texas itch within ten days after the
first Cattle mango parasites hatch in
four to seven days after the eggs have
been laid and the young begin to lay
eggs at fourteen to seventeen days
old. This being true. If cattle are dip
ped on the ninth or tenth day after the
first dipping all the young will be de-
stroyed before they lay a new batch
of eggs.
A hogs natural life is twenty-five
years while some have been known to
live longer. Sows may breed success
fully up to twelve years. Mr.. Dykster-
huis, of Powers county, Colorado, once
owned a pure bred Poland China SOW
for ten years and she narrowed thir-
teen filters of pigs in nine years. The
highest number to a litter was thirteen
and the lowest was five, which was
the first litter.
John Nelson, of Larimer county,
Colorado, who recently sold shorn
lambs in Chicago for $685. received
enough for the wool to make the lambs
bring him $3.50. The shearlings were
Wyomings weighing ninety-three
pounds each. Each sheared six and
three-quarters pounds of wool. which
sold at IA cents. This virtually topped
the market and lets a little light in on
the subject of shearing the wool before
selling the carcass.
A Dutchman, on losing his horse,
~patroniZed his home paper by putting
in the following notice: Won mite de
oder day ven | was been awake in
my shleep, / hear sumtings vat tink
was not chust right in my barn, sos |
out jumps to bed and runs NIT the
stable out and ven | was dore come, |
see dat my pig iron gray mare he vas
been tied loose and run nit de stable
of. Now who efer will back bring,
viii shust pay so much as vas peen
kustomary."-EXchange.
The owners of a farm near Kansas
City have invested more than $4,000
in pedigreed and registered hogs fol
the purpose of asceFtaining whether
breeding such stock exclusively can be
made profitable. They have no Other
live stock to demand their attention
except 100 cows and the dairy is used
as auxiliary to the hog farm, every
quart of milk being used to feed pigs
The farm contains 1900 acres witt
twenty barns. There are 600 register
ed animals and some of the boars cos
as much as pedigreed bulls or horses
The Denver Field and Farm SAYS.
Now that the shipping season is practi
cally over and we view the field, II Il
easy TO see that the lamb feeders hav.
come out pretty well. when all thin
are taken into consideration. Il is IN
deed fortunate that the market tool
such a strong upward turn. for IN
lamb feeders. work hard for thei
money. Many Of them lost so muc'
in 1891 that they were about read" I