California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal, 



The Live Stock Interests. 



Tho National Live Slock Journal illustrates 

 the importance ot the interests which it rep- 

 resents by referring to the fact that in Chicago 

 last year the aggregate shipments of live stock 

 and dairy products amounted to $115,750,000 

 while the shipments of all other farm pro- 

 ducts amounted only to $81,650,000. The 

 live stock, according to these figures, repre- 

 sented about one and a half times tho value 

 of everything else included under tho general 

 term of agricutural products. The TAve 

 Stock Journal, having thus established the 

 importance of the live stock interests, pro- 

 ceeds to make complaint because accommda- 

 tious are to be provided at the Centennial 

 Exposition, for only seven hundred head of 

 cattle — a number which it considers altogether 

 too meagre for a fair representation on the 

 part of the country at large, as state exhibi- 

 tions frequently elicit one-half or two-thirds 

 as many. The Cowdry Gentleman docs not 

 consider the complaint a just one; and be- 

 lieves that, taking into consideration the dis- 

 tance to be traveled and the expenses to be 

 incurred, together with the fact that great 

 care will be taken in the selection of compe- 

 ting animals, it is not likely that the entries 

 will largely exceed the number mentioned. 

 However this may be, we shall certainly have 

 a better representation of our live stock in- 

 terests by the exhibition of a limited number 

 of the finest aninaals than by getting together 

 a multitude of only average excellence. This 

 sifting process is a good thing in this, as in 

 many other matters. 



Jersey Cattle Sale. 



I There takes place occasionally a sale of this 



favorite class of stock where the purchaser 

 ■ an get great bargains and first-class stock at 

 the same time. On the 7th of October, 

 1 ilessrs. Isburgh & "Walker of Boston sold at 

 I auction fifteen head of Jersey cattle belong- 

 ing to W. J. Cook, ot Foxboro. There was a 

 .;ood attendance of gentlemen, and he fol- 

 li .wing shows the prices paid: Bull — Towanda 

 .hopped at sea Oct. 20, 1872, $50. Cows and 

 li'ifers — Eva Le Sueur, imported, six years 

 i!d, $55; Gravelotte, imported, six years old, 

 sS2 50; Alice, imported, five years old $72- 

 Ml; Victoria, four and one-third years old, 

 >r25; Artless, imported, four years and five 

 months, $12 50; Ripple, imported, five years 

 old, $102 50; Jessie, six years old, $127 50; 

 Slcylark, imported in dam, dropped Nov. 26, 

 1872, $80; Artless second, imported in dam, 

 dropped July 25, 1873, $50; Bergerette, im- 

 jinrted, nine years old, $27 50; Clover, dropp- 

 ed Oct. 3, 1873, $82 50; Ivy, dropped Oct. 

 7, 1872, $87 .50; Lillev dropped Nov. 20. 

 1874, $25; a heifer dropped Dec. 12, 1873, 

 S32 50. 



Jerseys ought to bring better prices than 

 tliese and we are surprised that their friends 

 didn't rally in greater numbers and bid with 

 greater enthusiasm. — ilfo.ss. Pkmyhman. 



Embaego on Cattle! — The Secretary of the 

 Treasury has addressed a circular letter to all 

 I 'oUectors of Customs in the United States, 

 announcing that no importations of meat 

 ■ ■attle or hides will be allowed from England 

 from the date of the order November 3d, in 

 consequence of the prevalence of the mouth 

 ■lisease in that country. 



Takk Caee or the Implements. — Don't 

 . ave your implements out in the weather. A 



leat many farmers are too remiss about this 

 iiaportant matter. They do not often see 

 ''..■yond the first cost of new tools, forgetting 

 I he constant accumulations of interest which 



.Q up into vast sums. Costly machines and 

 : "lis are often injured more by exposuse to 



in and storm, than by use. 



Mr. Stuyvesant's Sale. 



The clearing out Ayrshire sale of Mr. John 

 E. Stnyvesant, at Edgewood, near Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., Oct. 20. Tho same that was 

 advertised in the Calieoenia AKRicnLTURisT 

 AND Live Stock Journal. Attracted a very 

 good attendance of breeders, some coming 

 from considerable distances. Competition 

 was at times rather slack, but only one ani- 

 mal — the grand old monarch of the herd, 

 Robbie Bruce — was sent out of the ring for 

 want of an offer; and while five lots were 

 knocked down to the first bidder, competition 

 on several of the others was very animated. 

 The condition of the cattle certainly indicated 

 no attempt at getting them up for exhibition. 

 Secretary Harrison of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society acted as auctioneer, and 

 e£fecte<l sales as below : 



Cows and heifers sold from $50 to $200 

 each. Bulls and bull calves $10 to $155 each 

 SoMMAKY — 41 cows and heifers, average, $80- 

 90. Total, $3,685. Five bulls and bull 

 calves, average, $58 00. Total, $200 00. 46 

 head, average, $86 41. Total, $3,075. 



$\m)} mxi (Soat 



$. 



The Angora Coat Fleece, 



^i;V.j!HE number of these goats now in Cali- 

 Tj foruia is larger by many hundred than 

 last year, and importation is increa.sing. 

 As to the disposal of the fleece there is 

 no longer any question. The Sacra- 

 mento Bee is reliably infroraed that "every 

 pound of fleece in the State can find a ready 

 market in New York at ninety cents or one 

 dollar a pound, and the average yield is four 

 pounds per head. These animals ai-e well 

 adapted to mountain sections, as they can 

 subsist where sheep would starve. 



The Angora Goat Breeder's Association 

 have been at great trouble and expense in 

 obtaining thoroughbred animals for this coast 

 and the result of there labors will soon be 

 made apparant. 



AVe notice the establishment of an enterprise 

 in San Jose which is the commencement, we 

 hope, of an extensive business. The Angora 

 Robe and Glove Company have commenced 

 the work of tanning, drying and manufactur- 

 ing leather, wools, gloves, robes etc., making 

 mats, carriage robes, armlets, boot tops, col- 

 lars and many other saleable articles from the 

 skins and fleeces of the Angora. There will 

 never be any lack of market for so valuable a 

 staple as mohair, nor will the business ever be 

 overdone. In a few years the State will be 

 stocked with a class of goats almost pure bred 

 the result of breeding together thoroughbreds 

 and high grades, and the higher the grade 

 becomes the more valuable will be the fleece. 



In the late fearful storms in France, 506 

 sheep were killed at Belle Coste by one flash 

 of lightning. They belonged to a flock of 

 1,800, the property of a farmer. His loss 

 amounts to 18,000 francs. About 2,000 were 

 thrown down headlong. Two boys were j<ist 

 arriving with the shepherd's lunch, and they 

 set t(5 work with great presence ot mind, to 

 disengage the heap of carcases. Many others 

 must have died from suflbeatiou but for this 

 help. Some of the incidents noted are curi- 

 ous. The shepherd had his sabots broken, 

 while one of his gaiters was struck off, and 

 has not been found. The man was unhurt, 

 but much shaken. His dog was lying between 

 his legs when the bolt fell; it carried the body 

 twenty yards, and twelve carcases of sheep 

 were found piled above it. 



Now is a good time to suhscrilif. 



The Cashmeee Goat. — Here it will be in 



place to say a few words concerning that beau- 

 tiful and interesting animal, the Cashmere 

 goat, with its fleece like a summer cloud, 

 wavy and long and shinging after a rain, like 

 white-gold satin. William M. Landrum says 

 in his pamphlet on the subject that there are 

 already seventy thousand animals in the 

 State with more or less of this noble blood in 

 their veins. Always hardy and healthy in 

 this climate, clean as a cat, inodorous, never 

 deserting its young like the base Spanish 

 goat, contentedly browsing on chaparral, pine, 

 poison oak, and a hundred things, where even 

 the little merino would die, never so happy 

 as when picking moss ot! a rock or a decayed 

 log, never getting lost like the stupid she"ep, 

 but always cleaving to its fellows and always 

 coming to the corral at night of its own ac- 

 cord, yielding the purest milk of all animals, 

 which is never bitter, no matter what the 

 goat eats, with flesh sweeter than mutton and 

 mohair twice as valuable as wool — this little 

 animal is one of nature's priceless boons to 

 the poor man. It thrives wonderfully on the 

 thinnest, rockiest farms on the foot-hills, 

 where the miners have peeled off the top soil, 

 and, in my opinion, it is destined to bo the 

 regenerator of those very regions, otherwise 

 beyond hope. In addition to its beauty and 

 its vahie, if indulged by its master with a 

 casual handful of grain or salt, it will become 

 greatly attached to him, and distressed when 

 he is out of sight, running and bleating in 

 quest of him. — Slephen I'ower.-i in Atlantic 

 ilonnhly. 



Wool in Colorado. — A correspondent of 

 the Economist writes that wool growing is 

 destined to be one of the heaviest and most 

 important interests in this territory. There 

 is no location in the country better fitted for 

 sheep. The climate is mild, and in most 

 cases the sheep graze the year round. The 

 water is abundant, and the bunch grass in 

 tho valleys is very nutritious. Few lambs die 

 in the fields, and there are no diseases among 

 the sheep, and never has been in this territo- 

 ry. While in the south«^-n and western por- 

 tions of the territory, I saw many large flocks 

 of sheep, numbering thousands. I was sur- 

 prised at the number of lambs, which seemed 

 to be equal to the sheep. The wool here is 

 very clean and entirely free from briars, bur- 

 docks, etc. 



• One of our exchanges state that samples of 

 wool were on exhibition at the CrystJil Palace 

 New York, not long since, for which a pre- 

 mium was awarded. The same beat all com- 

 petition of the old world. It took Mr. Bick- 

 nell three years to produce this wonder, and 

 cost a great deal of pains and labor, braiding 

 the wool and tying it over the sheep's back. 

 The fibres of this wool are probably the lon- 

 gest ever grown before or since, being about 

 three feet in length. It was estimated by 

 good judges that the fleece would weigh from 

 forty to fifty pounds. The fleece was finally 

 sold to a shownan and brought the owner the 

 nice little sum of five hundi'ed dollars. 



A New Breed of Sheep. — William Crozier, 

 in charge of an extensive farm on Long Is- 

 land, is endeavoring to establish firmly a new- 

 breed of sheep, produced by crossing Cots- 

 wolds and Southdowxis. He has produced 

 says the American At/riculturist, a sheep with a 

 fleece of heavy combing wool, superior in 

 quality and equal in weight with that of the 

 pure Cotswold, and with as good quality of 

 flesh as the Southdown, and one-half greater 



Lloyd Smith, of San Joaquin county, Cal- 

 ifornia, has offered Mrs. Robert Blacom, of 

 Centreville, $1,000 each for three French 

 Merino sheep, which he proposes to take to 

 the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, for com- 

 petition with the best sheep from all parts of 

 the world. 





