Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-18
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Interesting Information Concerning the Ad-
vantage of Raising Good Stock,
EXPERIENCE OF A NEBRASKA FARMER
Remarkably High Price Secured for Few
Head OF First Glass Cattle -- No
Reason why Money should
he Lost.

There is no question that has aritatcd tho
minds of cattle producers more for the past
six years than what can.we do TO make
dollar in the busincssl'
IL is a fact that more money has been lost
by producers and feeders of cattle west of
the Missouri river in the past ten years than
has been made to explain which would re
quire more space than can be devoted to this
subject.
One of the prime causes of loss is the want
of quality and breeding, and that has been
talked and written about until, by some, IL
Is called a chestnut" But facts are just rs
true now as they were in lSlS, when the
"Eightecns" were imported from England.
And yet cattle men will go on wasting time
and feed losing money year after year,
handling scrub cattle, when Il thorough
bred sire can be had almost at
their doors for 500 or less, the first crop of
calves from which will bring on any market
twice as much money as the same number of
cattle can be bought for here almost any
day in the year
ing and care will do, T., f. Day
of Weeping Water, Ncb, had on
the South Omaha market the past week
seven head of two-year-old hereford cattle
three steers and four hciters of his own brccd-
ing and feeding which sold at an average OF
SS6 40 der head, and the hardest and slowcst,
market experience ut the Omaha yards in
the last six months.
Quite an Advantage.
Twcnty-four or TWENTY-FIVE head of cattle
is about the number that usually comes in
car. The above seven hcrd ncttcd MIR.
Day more money than thousands of full cars
that have arrived at this market within the
past wear
The only difference between these seven
head and the average cattle put ON the mar
ket which at the same age does not net the
producer $50 per head, is in the breeding and
feeding. These cattle were sold by the
Wagner Brney company, and bought by
Robert Budatz of l06 East Broadway, Couu-
ell Bluffs
Mr. Budatz took orders at the yards, from
commission men and employees, who saw the
cattle, for 500 pounds of the meat.
A large delegation will 90 over to Council
Bluffs to see the carcasses cut up Wednes-
day.
Many producers have an idea that the
man who owns two head of cattle is twice
as well off as he who owns but one,
but the idea is erroneous. 1t is not always
| numbers that counts in the cattle business.
| Only good cattle should be raised and only
as many as can be properly cared for, and
they should be kept in the feed yard until
! ripe and fit for market. No man should try
to feed two car loads of cattle with only feed
enough for one; If these a, n,,S himls
never be so bad as not to
! pay profit and the commission man would
not be forced to run after n buyer TO take
! the cattle.
The buyers would be the men to do the
running and the problem herein suggested
will have been solved.
How to Handle Hogs.
Now. while the hogs are worth $3.50 to
! 800 Il hundred and likely to go still higher
before next June, it might not be out of
place to tell farmers how to handle them in
loading and marketing to get the best money
out of them. A BEE reporter in CONVERSE
ton with one of the large packers of this
city was given a few pointers the
other day which ought to be known
by every farmer stodk raiser and shipper,
Every bruse on Il steer or puncture of the
skin on IA hog redus s.es the price offered by
the buyers at the yards, not that they mere:
ly want some cXcnsc for knocking down the
price, but because they, in turn, must take a
lower price sor the dressed meat. Many
farmers and shippers in driving and loading
hogs for the market will punch them with an
iron tipped prod pole or even pitch