Vol XLII. No 1741. 
NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 1883. 
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REPOSE. 
What is more typical of repose than a 
pasture ou a sultry Summer afternoon when 
the air does not move the leaves of the 
trees or the tallest spear of grass, or ruffle the 
surface of the polished pool; when the cattle 
lie contemplatively chewing the cud in the 
grateful shade or loiter lazily ou the way to 
it; when the distant hills are hazily blue and 
the nearer woodland sleepily still? Without 
the cattle the scene would he dead; with them 
it is full of suggestions of tranquility. In 
our engraving the inoffensive, hornless leader 
of the herd reeumbent in the shade, is the pic¬ 
ture of repose free from care and all uneasiness. 
It is time to stop this speculative fool- I 
ishness. It has gone far enough, and 
there is no margin left for new-comers. 
Prices of beef cattle are falling, as they 
inevitably must, because the supply is as 
large as ever and the recent high prices of 
meat have curtailed consumption. Above all, 
let renders of the Rural Urn-are of taking 
Stock in any Live Stock Company in which 20 
to 50 per cent profit is promised, paid quar¬ 
terly. A company of this kind is advertising 
all over the country to sell $10 shares, and 
those who invest will be swindled. When 
any business comas to this it indicates that the 
swindlers are into it. 
NOTES BY A STOCKMAN. 
Some large prices were recently obtained 
for Short-horn cattle in the West; a cow 
J brought $6,000: a bull $3,500 and others went 
over $1,000. These high prices are probably 
fair values for these animals as breeding stock. 
We must always estimate the value of ani¬ 
mals for breeding purposes very much higher 
than for beef or the dairy. 
The Queen of England’s suggestion to Eng¬ 
lish people to refrain from eating Spring lamb 
.because sheep are 
scarce is rather 
funuy. ft is aliont ^== ==^=? 
equal to advising 
poultry-raisers not 
to sell Spring chick¬ 
ens or eggs, because 
liens arc scarce. It is 
the male lambs which 
appear in the market 
as Spring lamb, and 
these are surplus 
stxx*k and useless 
for increasing the 
Hocks. But very few 
ewe lambs are sacri¬ 
ficed in this way, and 
if they were, the 
tempting price of $6 
or $6 a head will 
fetch the lambs to 
market iu spite of 
preaching, expostu¬ 
lation and the Queen 
of England. Gener¬ 
ally farmers may be 
credited with sulli- 
eient sense to know 
what is best for them, 
and advice as to the 
'details of their busi¬ 
ness is thrown away, 
or worse. 
The prices realized at some of the recent 
Jersey sales were reasonable, and it would 
the animal was prominently set forth. The 
cow on its arrival showed a truly golden skin, 
but after a short time the color wore off and 
soon the skin was of the ordinary flesh color. 
There is disappointment, and worse, in the 
mind of the purchaser of that cow. Perhaps 
one might ask how is it about the pedigree? 
Was this colored too? A man who would paint 
the skin of his cow to deceive a purchaser, 
would swear to a false pedigree just as easily. 
Aud there is considerable of this coloring 
done among Jerseya • 
The President of a great agricultural asso¬ 
ciation—if it is only in expectation—must 
necessarily do something big and make a sen¬ 
sation. And so the geut lemau who honors the 
said position has said something that will 
make him famous, or at least noteworthy, 
here. He says there is scarcely any nourish¬ 
ment at all in the beef of cofnmon cattle, that 
the nutritious elements in the flesh of the im¬ 
proved breeds, are largely in excess of those 
in the meat of the common herd. Indeed! 
This is a discovery and should be patented be¬ 
cause it is very novel. But how, then, do we 
eaten a steak from a grass-fed Texan steer 
could never wish for a more tender, juicy ami 
nutritious meat, and, moreover, he would find 
it vastly superior to a cut from the best prize 
Short-horn that is overloaded with fat but i 
deficient in the sweetness of the grass-fed lean 
of the bony Texan. 
There is an old adage, “the nearer the bone 
the sweeter the meat,” and this may perhaps 
be the reason why the bony Texan has such 
sweet and luscious beef—on his native 
heath. But it loses vastly in quality in its 
3,000 miles of transportation. 
The British Lords have been noted for their 
general uselessness and obstructiveness. An 
aged person, who is a British legislator by 
right of birth and not for any special fitness 
for this vocation, recently stated in the House 
of Lords that the importation of cattle from 
America should be prohibited because the 
foot-and-mouth disease was more prevalent 
here than in France. Now how much “foot- 
and-mouth” there is iu France I don’t know: 
but I know that this disease is unknown iu 
this country. It 
could not possibly 
prevail anyw here 
without it being 
known, for it is an 
exceedingly virulent 
and infectious dis¬ 
order, and especially 
marked in its symp¬ 
toms. ft is not that 
kind of disease that 
could exist in a herd 
without the owner 
finding it out very 
quickly. Now I have 
never heard of it 
here; have seen no 
notice of it in any 
veterinary journal, 
or any stock journal 
or local paper or 
of anything like it, 
either; and yet His 
Grace the Duke 
of Richmond and 
Gordon says we have 
lots of it; more than 
they have in France. 
Truly “we go from 
home to hear the uews 
about ourselves.” 
The extent to 
which the Western 
cattle business has 
been forced by the 
spirit of speculation 
is surprising. Mon¬ 
tana seems to be the 
El Dorado at present, 
and Miles City seems 
to be t he central point 
of the rush. In the 
district, around that 
city there are now 30 
herds, numb e ring 
from 500 head tip to 
60,000; iu all about 
300,000 head. The 
ranges there are now 
stocked and fully occupied, but still more 
cattle are being rushed in. Hundreds of young 
calves are taken from Michigan aud Wis¬ 
consin to Montana, and a head are being 
paid for them. Ten years ago a herd of year¬ 
lings aud two-year-olds could have beeu 
bought in Kansas for $7 a head and cows 
thrown iu at $15. Just now those values 
are doubled or more. 
REFUSE. —Companion EnOkaving Next Week.—From Life.—Fig, 322, 
have paid farmers to have been present. Any 
pure-bred Jersey bull calf is worth $25, aud 
any heifer worth $35, aud animals were sold 
at these prices. 
A perfectly trustworthy paper relates the 
following case. A party in the South pur¬ 
chased a Jersey cow front an advertised de¬ 
scription iu which the golden yellow skiu of 
live ou our beef if it is so inferior, for how 
much beef is there iu the market from the im 
proved breeds? Who lias been so fortmate as 
to get a roost from an Angus or a blue-blood 
Short-horn or Hereford? Great Cosar was 
once supposed to have got his high notions 
from some extra quality of meat, but there 
were uo high-bred cattle in those t imes. Such 
a remark is arrant nouseuse. One who has 
No nation in the 
world except our¬ 
selves would submit 
to such foolishness 
as is practiced against 
the United States 
by foreign govern¬ 
ments. Germany re¬ 
fuses our pork on 
account of the 
trichina?, of which 
they say we have 
more than our share 
—a bold, transparent 
excuse. France does 
the same thing. Spain 
and Cuba refuse our 
lard, and England is 
refusing our beef. 
Perhaps they will 
soon discover that our wheat is infested 
with worms, as it is by the AnguiMlla* tritici 
(a British beast, too, by birth), aud so 
refuse that, and by-and-bye they' may hear 
our gold has the yellow’ fever, and so 
refuse that. But perhaps they would take 
the gold if it Lad all the plagues in the world 
hidden in it. It is time our Government had 
something to say about all this nonsense aud 
