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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A sharp boy when asked, " Which is the right side of a plum pudding?" replied, " The side which is not left," ok Cattle in: Ajjkhicia.—A New York paper asks, is a beef famine approaching ? and says the latest reports from tho west answer affirmatively. It is estimated that tho destruction of cattle in tho north west during tho past winter amounted to 400,000 head in Montana, 100,000 in Idaho, 300,000 iu Wyoming, aud ;",0,000 in Colorado—a total of 850,000 head. Owing to tho excossivo drought dnviug tho summer it i.-j estimated that tl)e Iqases iix the great beef prqrluuing- States and territories such as Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas, will be 050,000 head, swelling tho whole loss tfl 1,500,0QQ. This js certainly considerably higher than all previous estimates indicated. It is said moroover, that, owing to climatic and other conditions, from 50 to 7» per cent, fewer calves than usual were dropped this sprinsr, mid an uuusally large number of heifers have been spayed on the ranges, nud this, must have a serious effect in time,