The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-09
STATE HAS MORE
CATTLE THAN EVER
DROUGHT IN TEXAS HAS FORCED
THE CATTLEMEN TO SEEK
NEW PASTURES FOR HERDS.

tered on the ranges of this state. In
great part this was caused by the
drouth in the lower Texas Panhandle
country, making it necessary for the
cowmen TO find other pastures Tor
their herds, and in addition 10 many
thousand head left on the Oklahoma
range from last summers feeding,
hundreds of additional car loads
were brought up from the southland.
The cowmen have been fortunate, for
there has been plenty of lowing wa
ter in the Usage nation during the
winter months, and the homestead
ers and ranchers have found ready
market for the corn, kaffir corn and
fodder raised last season.
Already the movement to market
from the winter pastures of the state
has started, augmenting the food sup
ply of the nation and furnishing the
raw material for the big packing
houses of the central west. Accord
ing to ]. NJ. DeLozier, live stock
agent for the Frisco railway com
pany there were 125,000 head OF
Texas cattle in the Usage nation
/ this winter, and it will not be long
until the annual spring movement
from the south to the pastures will
| begin.
Something accurate relative to the
cattle business in this state can be
gained from the figures, recently an
nounced by G. 7. Bryan, president
of the state board of agriculture,
that during the past two years to-
/ tai of $4,000 head, shipped from the
south into Oklahoma, were dipped at
/ the various Oklahoma cattle pens
along the lines OF the interstate
| railways.
The dipping is necessary in order
! to eradicate the Texas fever tick and
thus protect the native cattle. He
places the number thus protected at
100000 head. He says that the state
expends $4,000 annually for tick
eradication.
The spring movement of cattle TO
market, Oklahoma being one of the
few states of the union that furnish
es a spring supply, is one of annual
interest and even anxiety to the
packing industries, for much depends
upon the number and quality receiv-
ed from this state One railway com
pany last spring carried $1,000 cars
from this state 10 Chicago, ST. Louis
and Kansas City markets. Two other
railway companies, having the same
connections, were also busy and the
/ total number of cars sent from Ok
lahoma last spring was close to 70,-
900.
The annual report of State Audit
or NJ. f. Trapp showing the taxable
wealth OF Oklahoma, for 1910, shows
there were 1,473,523 head of cattle
owned by Oklahoma farmers, with
total assessed valuation of $12,9l3,-
$40.
For the purpose of handling the
cattle that are shipped annually into
Oklahoma from Texas principally,
mammoth dipping watts have been
erected at Vinita, Chouteau, Fora
ker, Homing, Wyona, kelleyville,
Dewey, Mansford, Fisher, Antoine
Neloganey, Maize, Brace and Foss
in Oklahoma, and Elgin, Kansas,
which is on the northern border OF
the Usage nation. The pens and
vats are constructed, as rule, at
the expense of the railway compa-
nes that are benefited by the cat
tie shipments, and both state and
federal inspectors are on hand %
supervise the dipping and to make
forced.
At it's general shops in Muskogee
the Midland Valley railway compan!
has erected a great cauldron. in
which it prepares the arsenic dip
which is used for Texas cattle ship
ped into Oklahoma and unloaded at
its pasture stations. This cauldron
holds 1900 gallons of the fluid and
after it is put into barrels and dis
tributed among the dipping watts.
These watts are long alleys or gang
ways, through which the cattle are
driven, the fluid being deep enough
TO force the cattle to swim.-Ieader
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