When you write mention THE PRAIRIE FARMER. * * * * * [Illustration] LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT. Stockmen, Write for Your Paper. Leland Stanford, Palo Alto Stud, Mayfield, Cal., has sold to H. J. Agner, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, seven head of young thoroughbred horses. * * * * * Col. Charles F. Mills, Springfield, Ill., informs THE PRAIRIE FARMER that his Elmwood herd of Jerseys are going through the winter in excellent condition. * * * * * H. K. Lewis, and John Cotton, Boyle county, Ky., have sold to G. L. Chrisman, Independence, Mo., a nice lot of pure-bred Southdown ewes, yearlings, at $12 per head. * * * * * T. D. Chestnut, Danville, Ky., recently sold to Simon Johnson, Garrard county, Ky., ten Cotswold ewes at $6 per head, and fifty head of Cotswold ewes to Robert Collier, Garrard county, at $5.50 per head. * * * * * Breeders of Short-horns in Scotland are to meet in Edinburgh next week for the purpose of furthering the movement in aid of centenary prizes for Short-horns at the forthcoming show of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. * * * * * Mr. Charles H. Walker, President of the Nebraska Stock Breeders’ Association, writes THE PRAIRIE FARMER that the association will meet at Lincoln, February 13-14. He adds: “This meeting is not in the interest of any one breed; but is intended to help all persons engaged in breeding, feeding or marketing cattle, horses, and swine.” * * * * * The Nebraska State Wool-Growers’ Association will hold its annual meeting on Friday, February 15, at the Senate Chamber, in Lincoln. Every sheep man in the State should be present, as matters of great importance to this large industry will come under discussion, and especially the present unsatisfactory state of the tariff. So writes the President, Mr. P. Jansen, of Fairbury, Neb. * * * * * The collective shipments of live stock and fresh meat from the United States and Canada landed at Liverpool during the first week of the present year amounted to 861 cattle, 850 sheep, 100 hogs, 7,598 quarters of beef, and 1,906 carcasses of mutton. The figures show a large falling off in the arrivals of both live stock and fresh meat when compared with the imports of later weeks of the preceding year, more particularly with regard to live stock, which arrived in very small numbers. * * * * *