Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

There are many people who do not
reaIizs the great benefits that will result
from the establishment of the great
packing house at the stockyards. 1t
must be remembered at present that
there is no such thing as hog market in
Fort Worth. There are few parties
here who buy hogs to ship to Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City. New Orleans and
Mexico, but their purchases are made
all over North Texas and the hogs never
see Fort Worth save when they pass
through on the railroads. No money is
put in circulation here by such traffic,
and the business has been so light here
tofore that the benefits even to the far
mer who had hogs has been limited.
1t will be different when the packing
house starts up, and then the people
will begin to realize the great
good such an enterprise Is, not
only to the city, but to all the oOun-
try tributary to it. Ii is proposed
to operate the packery every day in the
year, and the capacity of 1t being 600
hogs per day in the summer and twice
that many in the winter it takes but little
figuring to ascertain how much money
will be put in circulation through it.
Besides this home market having
been created where the hogs of the state
can be readily sold at as good prices as
they are sold for North, with the freight
saved, farmers will be stimulated to en-
gage in the swine industry more extern
slvely than they now do, aud the result
will be thousands of fat pOrkers in Texas
TO where there are not hundreds day.
Once started this packing business in
Texas will grow, and, as the number of
establishments increase, the demand for
hogs will increase; and as the demand
increases so will the supply.
As an evidence of how fast such a bus
mess increases the hog market at
Wichita, Kan, is cited. few
years ago there was no packing house
in that city, and of course there was
no market for hogs. All swine of that
section of the country were shipped to
Kansas City, st. Louis or Chicago. With
the starting up of the first packing house
a new era began to dawn. Hogs IN
small numbers were shipped to and sold
in Wichita, and a nucleus had been
formed which was bound to result in the
creation of one of the best hog markets
ing house was built and more hogs came
to Wichita, and if it were not for such
establishments there to-day, Wichita,
Kan. would be on the retrograde. The
increase of hog receipts there has been
and they will continue to in
crease just in proportion to the demand
for pork products in the country. When
the packing house enterprise was first
started there the weekly receipts of hogs
ranged from 800 to 1900, but they grad
ually gained until they went high in the
For the week ending July
26 the receipts were l6, PIT head, and
what has been at Wichita can and will be
in Fort Worth.
In view of all these things it is not ex-
travagant to predict that in a few years |
there will be marketed and slaughtered |
in Fort Worth from 10 900 TO 10 900 hogs !
is, when other packing |
houses are started up, as they no doubt |
will or when the success of the one now |
building is assured; and all these hogs will |
be Texas raised and the money now sent |
North for bacon and lard will be kept in |
his state. Besides the home demand |
.or these products of the packing houses, |
Texas bacon and Texas lard will be |
shipped to Mexico, to New Mexico, to
to the Indian Territory, and,
when deep water is secured, to Central
md South America.
Is there any reason then why the Texas
armer and stockmnn should not turn his
attention to hog raising, especially when
here is no country on the face of the
;lobe better adapted to it than Texas?
Raise plenty of hogs, and that kind that
will mature quick, and prosperity will
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