Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-10
STOCK NOTES


Bryan & Badget shipped 1000 head
of cattle bought from Hachuca, A. T.,
from the Deming stock yards. during
the week. The stock goes to pastures
in Montana.
There are now only sixty odd ears of
fatted lambs in Weld county, Colo. to
&C 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 cognizant of
the fact that it will outshrink it as
well. Sell corn fed wool in the dirt.
1t is reported that cattle being ship
ped from Arizona points are dying III
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 now last winter had the
effect quite naturally of creating con
siderable dust on the range and wool
is not so clean this spring as it might
bt. DtSlutS all dlhdil Sdnu dCCumuldteS
in the wool and thus not only takes
longer to shear a sheep but the shears
are more rapidly worn out. 1t is said
that there is a great s~hrinkage in some
wool, owing TO The presence of this al
kali sand.
Ryan Bros. of Leavenworth. Kan
sas. who own and control extensive
ranches in the a Simon valley in
Snfthyrogtor Nnu- AJavioa aud ca,th~
eastern Arizona, are preparing to make
extensive cattle shipments to Kansas
and Montana. The stock is now being
gathered and it is estimated that be-
tween five and seven hundred carloads
of cattle will be 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 & 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 it is neces-
sary to give it a 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
er kind of stock. The recent wars
have taken many mules, but the great
immigration N commercial enter
prises that follow in the wake of war
reconstruct and develop the devastat-
ed territory and always require a much
greater amoun of supplies than the
armies themselves. Such will be the
case in South Africa, the Philippines
and Cuba. Every New Mexico locality
should have a good jack and there is
no better way than for a few men to
get together and invest $1,000 in a NAL
tese gentleman. Such ar animal would
add many thousands of dollars to the
neighborhood each year and will safe
ly pay rs per cent on the investment
per mum.
One thing is certain, there will be
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 reaso for
this state of affairs is that western
feeders prefer not to handle muttons
unless they can get corn cheap. When
corn is high and lambs cheap as was
the ease last fall, feeders go in almost
exclusively for young sheep and leave
the muttons to remain on the range.
The result of this has beer that ewes
wethers and aged sheep were kept
back on the ranges and left to shift for
themselves during the winter. Next
fall these will re turned in the market
as feeding sheep, and if there is a good
corn crop many Kansas and Nebraska
farmers and 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
not long ago. Prices in the main were
not high for the quality of the stock Of
fered. Elsie, by General Banton, out
of Elaine, 2:2?, brought $775 with a
foal at foot by Mckinney a few days
old and was called a great bargain.
Bell Bird, yearling record 2:26A, by
Electioneer out of Beautiful Bells by
The Moor, fetched $3.50. J. B. Haggin
bought the twenty year old stallion Az
moor, 2:201a. by Electioneer, dam
thoroughbred Mamie c. by imp. Hercu-
les, for 500. A two year old colt by
Mckinney, 2:11A, dam She, PIP, went
to Frank W. Convey for $500. Coralia,
by Doodle, PIP, dam Coral, 2:lS1a, by
Electioneer, went to DR.. Ham at $500,
the same purchaser got the black
mare. Gorilla, by Dexter Prince, out of
Lily Thorne. by Electioneer, for $40.
The average for twenty-six animals