Wichita eagle., 1890-02-08
Brief Mention.

Light run of stock today.
Our packers want more hogs.
Houston shipped four cars of cattle east
today.
Sinner e. Butz handled upwards of LOCO
cattle at the yards last month.
Mr.. Bush, of Bush & Heath, Douglas,
came in late last evening with a car of
hogs.
b. B. Ramsey, Andover. was On the mar
ket with car of hogs.
car of hogs.
A p. Smith came in from Spivey with a
car of cattle and hogs.
q. Koch, Cheney. marketed hogs.
Mr.. Lehman, Halstead, was on the late
market with car of porkers.
PROFIT IN HOGS.
insist that there is as much profit in
hogs as there is in steers, but they should
run out ana have the same advantages,
writes George w. Hoffman in the Rural
New Yorker. There is but one better
animal to enrich land, and that is said to
be the sheep. Hogs are better than cows
or steers to enrich land. | would turn
them out with the cattle; they will eat a
great many weeds and grasses that the cows
will not. OF course you will have to keep
with the appliances of today two men will
ring 100 in a short time. We can grow
almost anything on hog pasture. At the
present price of corn, buckwheat and
barley, l think there is AS much profit in
pork at sc per pound rs in anything we
could raise. We u ed TO think there was
more profit in pork at 81 or &c than there
was in selling grain when it brought
more than IL does now. / would cook the
food; you cannot make a profit out of any
thing IL ii is not well taken care Of L
would bed my hogs with straw; it will
make more manure If nothing more.
Lawrence Journal: Stockmen bug corn
for 10 cents u bushel. but admit they MAKE
it worth 35 cents to them by feeding it to
hogs, cattle and horses. Ii the farmer has
no stock he had better get some.
A Russian writer asserts that through
the careless sRcking of grain and the use
of hooks upon the sacks while loading and
unloading into and from cars and boats,
ali average of 2 per cent of all grain trans
ported is .ost. euta.ling AN annual loss of
s.. u00, ,0C0; and he estimates the yearly cost
OF bags at half that amount.
From the Live Stock Indicator: The
handspring of farming is the seed. 1t is
more important TO secure good seed than
to prepare for its reception in the soil. The
failure of seed to gerninate may cost the
farmer the loss of an entire crop. The
keeQ Is something budJ Tue
earefully examine now, before spring
opens, by testing il in boxes of earth un-
der glass.
From the Live Stock Indicator: In feed
Ing and fatteLing hogs il Is important to
have a lot near of the same size, weight
and quality as possible; it will sell for a
better price than lot of various sizes and
weights. Ii. when fatted, there are few
small ones or one of an extra size, the lot
Will sell for more in the average II you
take these out and Kill them Tor home use
or dress Tor the near market, OF sell when
a shipment is being made of nogs that ay
erage with them.
From Daily Trade Bulletin: Looks now
as if the increase in the packing of the
west for the winter season would reach
1,5O0,UO0 hogs
The Liverpool Daily Post in comment
ing on the receipts of cattle from America
says some of the steamers have carried car
goes of LOCO head and in such cases the
loss has been equal to $50. A movement is
now on foot by the underwriters to restrict
the cargo TO 200 or 500. The Post estimates
the weekly receipts at 10000 head.