Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-30
NEWS OF The MARKETS
The Condition Of Trade Rapidly
Growing Better.
News of h Cattle Ranges, Movement
of stock OF All Kinds, and What
Is Occurring In the World of
Commerce.


Ohio hes nearly as many sheep, valued
ut almost twice that Of the Texas sheep
The five states having the greatest mum
Der OF sheep are Texas. Ohio. California.
New Mexico and Oregon, in the order In
which they are named.
Although the number of cows in this
country Is reported at about -, COO, coo, We,
the number of registered pure-bred cows
Is comparatively small. there being about
10000 Holstein cows, 5000 Jerseys, l0,0Ot
Ayrshires and 4 900 Guernseys. The mum
ber OF bulls is about 80 per sent less.
There are n large number of grade cattle
however.
Although corn Is plenty and the yield Of
pigs almost up to the product of last year,
there is n prospect of higher prices for the
swine flesh cured Ia this country. The
reasons are few and manifest Twelve
states report SURPRISES of swine: but as
compared with last year the crop is 1876 &c
100 and the comparative average OF the
entire country Is $50.
A dispatch from Denton, Tex, saws
Reports coming in from the surrounding
country are TO the effect that a great many
cattle have died since the unusually cold
spell of weather, which began Sunday
night, set In. Most of the ca tie in this
county are pastured and fed, but there are
n great many on the range, and not many
range cattle were ia condition to stand
such a severe spell of weather.
Exchange: While a given number Of
poorly fed animals may not make nearly
as many pounds Of meat as a much small
Ter number OF well matured cattle, hogs or
sheep, the moral effects of large numbers
is always In favor of buyers and against
sellers. Ii would therefore be better for
producers II they put their animals In
better condition than they are now doing.
ain the management OF n bull the great
est power is kindness" wrote n live stock
owner who had just gone into the bust
ness. The next morning he went into the
pasture to pet his new prize bull. He will
probably recover the sight of one eve and
there are certainly no more than three ribs
broken, but the doctor does not think he
can mend the fractured thigh so that the
patient will ever be able to walk again
without limping,
The total production of corn, wheat
and oats in the United States last year
was 3,4i0.3!S,0o bushels, compared with
2,4l2.S53,000 bushels in 1880. 1884. g67. Coz
bushels in lsS9. 3i05, 80, 1900 bushels in
1883, and 2,b72, 10000 bushels Ia 1887. With
the short crops abroad and the high prices
ruling for ali grains the outlook for the
western farmer could hardly be more ia
vorable. The great drawback at present
Is the scarcity of freight-room, but as the
storage capacity at the seaboard points is
filled vessels are ioaded promptly on arri-
val.
Many OF those in position to observe are
II the opinion that the trashy cattle Of the
country designed to be marketed during
the season have nearly all been shipped
out. Those who desired 10 get rid of stock
to avoid feeding ~high-priced corn have
probably nearly all lone so. 1t is, there
fore, likely that the runs will average bet
ter in quality from this time on throughout
she season. The aggregate of runs should
for the same reason be lighter. and the re.
suit consequent upon this should be n
tendency toward improvement in prices.
As 20 this latter point, though, there Is
more or less of neutrality-suspicious.
Stockman.
Field and Farm: When you bave cattle
for feeding you must give them the most
regular attention If you expect them TO
make n profitable gain. The profit de-
ponds almost wholly upon the rapidity
and constancy of gain, a d IL they go of
their feed for a few days 1T means a ser
ious loss. II then costs more 10 make
them gain what they have lost than il
would to have mad the same number of
pounds il their gain had been continuous.
III you have some steers that are going
along in fine condition the best thing you
can do is 10 attend 10 them yourself until
they are off To market If left TO "a boys
care, or a needless hired man, for even a
day, they may be over-fed, and then IL
will take you a week to overcome the evil
An Illinois man writes thus to an ex-
change: The principal reason why I
fattan ~ "A a. hraaAf,n .n-.a "a sl.no
is because after that they are very likely
TO become cranky OF a lot of twenty
breeding sows had several years ago,
thirteen were kept until they were five
years old, and my experience with that
lot convinced me hat without special care
old sows, unless very valuable, are unde-
sirable property. They become altogether
too cunning. As ! could not feed them all
the corn they wanted without making
them too fat for any purpose, they under
took to supply themselves. -Four of them
excelled n white-faced COW at fence-break-
ing They were constantly hunting for n
loose board or weak spot in the fence, and
their chief object in life seemed to be TO
get out of the pasture and forage on nv
~neighbors. Alas for the fowl that ven
tured within their reachl One of them
caught and cbewed up a eat so quick that
| never knew what took il in"
10Y hpAbhhth u HNtiOaS |
made by shippers in sending their cattle
to market Is in overlooking the cars. This
will almost always result in one or more
head being either crippled or killed IL the
journey is n long one, and the loss ia this
way will be much more than the cost of an
extra ear would have been. Even If none
are crippled or killed, the whole shipment
will arrive in bad condition and nave to be |
sold at a lower figure than would have
been the case otherwise. A man who has
had experience in the shipment of cattle
by rail should always be put in charge Of
the loading, and he shouid be instructed
not TO crowd, and TO bed them comfort
ably. Only n man who has rome through
with n shipment from one end of the route
To the other can appreciate the difference, |
In money value, between q carload that
has been handled properly and one that
has gone under adverse conditions.
Exchange: The great corn belt has not
remarkably changed in ITS salient features
within the last few years On the crop Of
1891 Iowa leads with $500, 0C0 acres and
S5l 200, 900 bushels. Illinois 10 second with
z oil 900 acres and 235. o00,O 0 bushels. |
Then follow in order Missouri, Kansas, |
Nebraska, Indiana and Tennessee, the
latter being credited with 81, 553, 600 bush
els. In oats Illinois takes the lead with
S,069, 600 acres, and Iowa is second with
2, 195, 900 acres. the production being ILL., |
000. 600 and i03. 500. 900 bushels, respec-
lively. Minnesota Is the only other state
In which the production of oats exceeded
80, 900, 600 bushels. The yield OF wheat,
in round millions of bushels, was
for Minnesota SIS, Kansas IS, Indiana SO,
North Dakota 90. Illinois IS, South Da-
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