The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-08-31

/ STOCK NEWS|
The Neutrality-suspicious. Law.
Texas Stockman journal

X. Rosson. the well known COM
mission man of this city, said:
The rulings of the bureau of
animal industry which have met
with the approval of the secre-
tary of agriculture are not practi-
cal, and were not promulgated by
practical cattleman or one who
knows much about the handling
of cattle in transit. | think that
the party or parties who wrote
the ruling Lad never seen n car of
cattle loaded. In the first place,
twenty.three head of 700 pound
steers is not over two-thirds of n
carload, and to load cattle in this
manner would injure them more
than to have them loaded reason
ably light. The numbers run
ming from seventeen head of 1900
pound cattle up to thirteen head
of l, 7O0-pound cattle TO the car
are practical and all right, though
cattle of such weights could he
loaded somewhat heavier without
i'll effects. But instead of twenty
three head of 700.pound cattle to
the car load, u thirty.six-foot car
loaded with thirty-two head of
cattle of this weight would be
reasonably loaded, and they
could lie down aud rest at will.
Twenty-eight head of S00-pound
cattle would be about tho proper
proportion to load that class of
stuff to make them ride well and
have plenty of room to rest, and
twenty-five head of 000-pound
cattle, twenty-three head of 1000
pound cattle, twenty-one head of
,100.pound cattle and nineteen
head of 1,200-pound cattle. These
figures range from one head of
,200-pound cattle to nine head
of 70O-pound cattle more per car
than the limit placed by the gov
eminent and would permit the
shipper to load into a car as many
. pounds as he was paying freight
on, To load cattle in the proper.
ton | have suggested would give
them plenty of room to lie down
and rest when they desired. and
there would be no danger of theIl
getting tramped on or injured il
any manner.
when the Street stable cars
first came into use / shipped three
trains Of cattle from Fort Worth
to Chicago, putting in twenty
two head of 1,O75-pound steers tC
the car. / went with these cattl,
and superlntended the shipping
of them myself, having fifteel
carloads in each train. These
cattle were fed and watered in th'
cars, and very often / would fine
as many as half the cattle lying
down at the same time. On these
three trains | did not have tC
make single steer get up on &C
count of the animal being in baC
condition or on any other account
These cattle were watered three
times between here and Chicago
making the run in fifty-two t.
flfty-slX hours, and they looked
almost as well in Chicago as whel
| loaded them. My persona
opinion is that the bureau o
animal industry should make I
thorough investigation Of hand
hing cattle in transit, and if nee
essary appoint practical cattle
man to give them this informa
ton, as the live stock industry o
the United States is one of TIN,
largest industries there is in it
and certainly should be CAREFUL,
considered and the interests o
the producers carefully looked
after.
"As 1 have stated before, thu
conditions applying to a nativ
steer fed on dry corn will not ap
ply to range cattle that are fee
on nothing but grass. expect t.
devote great deal of my tim
between now and December, com
pairing statistics to show tn
; habits of the range cattle and i
} possible to get our twenty-eigh
hour law repealed"