Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Live Stock Items. [ARTICLE]

Live Stock Items.

It has recently been discovered in St. Paul, Minn., that horseflesh is being offered by hucksters for sale for table use. It seems that for several winters hucksters, posing as farmers, have offered for sale the carcasses of horses as beef fresh killed on the farm. A Nebraska report says: There is not the rush for cattle by feeders that prevailed at this time last year. One jof the reasons for this lack of interest on the part of the men who usually turn our corn crop into beef is the present high price of good feeding cattle on one hand, and on the other i the prospect of having to pay from 25 cents and upwards per bushel for the corn to fit the cattle fpr the beef consumers. An Akron (Colo.) correspondent writes: “Feeder cattle are beginning to move from here; more cattle to be shipped than ever before, and of better quality; large amount of winter feed put up. Sheepmen are thinking of keeping yearling wethers and lambs over unless they get good prices, as 25 cents will winter a sheep, not including herding (losses run from 2 to 5 per cent).’’ The practice of branding horses and mules has for a long time materially affected the price of the animals, but there is now shown a disposition to abandon the practice. Recently a carload of unbranded Western mules were sold in St. Louis, bringing the price of Missouri mules, owing to the fact that they had not been seared by the branding iron. Official returns from the board of agriculture show that during the first forty-three weeks of this year (the period ended Oct. 27) there had been in Great Britain 1,659 outbreaks of swine fever, 446 of anthrax, 944 of glanders, seventeen of foot-and-mouth disease and seven cases of rabies, of which five were in dogs. The outbreaks of swine fever were fewer and those of glanders much more numerous than the corresponding periods of the three preceding years. A plan is on foot for the opening up of the Osage reservation in Oklahoma territory by the temporary, and finally, permanent allotment of the lands. The plan is to induce the individual members of the nation to take temporary allotments of 150 acres of agricultural and 500 acres of grazing land. After these allotments have been taken the Indian agent will be called upon to rent the lands for the individual Indians to reliable parties, who can give bond for the faithful performance of yieir contracts. By a recent order of the department of agriculture cattle from points south of the quarantine line inay be shipped to points north Ox the line for any purpose between the Ist day of November and the 31st of December, 1900, inclusive, without being subject to the usual United States inspection, except that cattle shipped to Missouri, Kansas and portions of New Mexico, Oklahoma and north of the quarantine line will be subject to the local rules of inspection of those states and territories.