| Show STOCK NOTES hew Cattle Htuo Fared on the Ranges Other Items of Interest Rawlins Wyo Republican The Big Creek Cattle company bought fields of hay here and have run about two hundred of their cattle up to now with but little loss But now they have the hay all fed out and the fields arc covered up and tho loss will be considerable Lusk Wyp Herald F H Scholing was over from his ranch the first of the week ir t wrfl interfered f and says the late snows have interfered i very little with range cattle and the loss will bo very smallso small that it is unnoticeable noticeable Prospects for the cattle industry indus-try are growing brighter every day and this season promises more encouraging ret re-t nrns tlinn f nnmntvenvo Saratoga Wyo Lure A band of mountain bison that numbered about fifty head was recently seen on the west aide of North park This band is known to inhabit in-habit the range there and the recent heavy snows have driven them down to where they can obtain feed It is to be hoped that no one will molest them as they are becoming quite scarce and should be preserved Silver City Ida Avalanche All hail change weather I The snow is fast disappearing under a warm and drizzling rain It is to be hoped that the final breakup break-up of a hard winter is taking place Although Al-though the loss of stock is quite severe it will be somewhat compensated by a beautiful tiful supply of grass tho coming summer such as we have not seen for several years Rawlins Wyo Republican The late now still hangs on the hay stacks are beginning inning to look pretty small and the cattle are cutting down There will be a Very small loss to the inhabitants here provided we have any warm weather in the next two or three weeks to cut away the snow as everyone has hay enough to run their cattle that length of time Uinta Wyo Chieftain Stockmen on tbe Sweetwater are rounding up their cattle cat-tle and crossing them over to the south side of the river where the feed is much better The very poorest ones arc being kept up to feed There has been no very serious snow storms there and in fact cattlemen are afraid there has not been enough to start the grass in good shape Some think there will be chilling storms in March which will ch 11 the cattle and give them a set back The small horse for farm work is surely going out of use With deep powing which is the order of the day and the heavy Implements that are to be moved ho 100 or 1000 pound horse will no longer do A horse of 1200 pounds or more is now required for nearly all classes of farm labor la-bor > The horse that draws tho farm wagon and hauls the grain and hay to market will not be required to trot in the future He will be required to move a big mod nnrl mnvn it sum and safe 06 no The department of agriculture reports that the number of horses in the United States exceeds 14000000 besides 2300000 mul s The increase in these animals is unprecedented How about railroads making mak-ing horses useless It is not empty boasting to say that horses raised in the west arc taking precedence prece-dence even in eastern markets In answer to a correspondent the New York Iei old says Western horses of the right kind are tho most readily sold in any of the cities In Now York they bring higher prices than in western cities as the demand de-mand is larger for them The ost desira blo horses arc about 1200 pounds in weight and bay and gray arc tho most popular colors Color however is a secondary consideration although mixed or spotted colors arenot liked iHalfbred Percherons arc the most salable being stoutbuilt and active animalswith clean limbs and sou id feet feetThe The famous pair of Almont mares Al dine and Early Rose the property of Fred Vanderbilt aro both in foal to the Electioneer Election-eer stallion St Bel Twentyfive thousand dollars have been offered for tho produce if both aro fillies 30OUO if one is a filly and 05000 provided both are colts There are thirteen pacers that went a mile in 215 or better last sammer Ten of them are bred in strictly trotting lines and but three are pacing bred Two of them were from the Tom Hal family of pacers and one is tho son of a trotter who is pacing bred |
