Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-11

O6A o1O OedI' OdGbI0 buyers HON
Montgomery and Lyon counties as well
as Elk are helping to boom our stock cat
tie little. VIM. Brust, of Indepen-
dence, picked up car load about Sedan
last week, and was expected back again.
He offered Mrs E. W. Davis $24 a head
for fourteen head of two-year-olds but
the offer was refused. The steers have
not been fed but are fat, and our infor-
mant says he has seen nothing in the
country to come up to them. John
Luttrell sold a mixed bunch of calves to
to him at SIS a head which seems
to be about as low as the other offer was
high. A Mr.. Gilbert, from near Empo-
ria, bought 20 or 80 head of twos and
threes of o. G. Kiser and 10 head of
threes of W. d. Wiley of Lafayette town.
ship, paying $2S for the latter, and Kiser
is in the market now for two year-olds,
but as he is something of hustler he
may have them picked up by this time
Albert Ahrburg's bunch of 40 head of
three year-olds is spoken of as the finest
lot of steers on feed in the Leeds coun-
try. They weighed right at 100 when
put up and were in good shape and have
been doing we'll. Fred Ahrburg also
has 35 threes on feed and is buying
some corn.-Dick Bostick, of Elk coun-
ty, one of the rustling cattle men of that
county made raid down in this county
and bought up something over hun
dred head about Lowe and Wauneta,
buying 10 head of fine three year-olds of
j. B. Rogers, dandies, they were, too, SO
he said, 10 more almost as good, and 4
twos of Henry Wendt; twos of Mr..
Pease; some ten dollar calves of Hiram
Butler, and 50 on all over that country.
He paid around $50 for threes and $40
for twos.-L. N. Guthrie is thinking of
striking the market with load of three
year-old steers. They have been on
corn and alfalfa for about thirty days
and are looking pretty well. With this
load out of the way he will have ITO
twos left, half of them, he thinks, will 60
1900 pounds average, the balance lit
tie higher. He was in town, Tuesday,
with load of grain which he took home
in the shape of chopped feed - the way
lots Of our wheat is being marketed now.
"A. E. Comes is full-feeding IS head
of threes on his farm at Rogers and is
roughing about 400 head of good feed
ers. If he should happen to find place
where he could bunch up a few thou
sand bushels of corn he might put an
other hundred head on feed. He came
home from the market and says he saw
good feeders, two-year-olds, offered
there at two cents.-A. I. Adam had
Texas fever in his home herd of cattle
few weeks ago, and lost, all told, little
over twenty head. Isaac Caldwell, who
is in charge of the farm, thinks the loss
would have been much greater but for
the use of jimson tea. The remedy was
recommended to him by Texas man
and in this case is credited with saving
about half what the loss would have
been without. The last eight head taken
down were all saved. A strong tea made
by sleeping the jimson weeds was given
in doses of from one to three quarts, and
almost invariably cured.-J. J. Wilson
is buying considerable rough feed,
and has been picking up few
-year-steers lately. He has near
ly 600 steers now but is not expecting
to full feed any of them. He will ship
a few threes.-Kirby Bros, at Leeds,
have a bunch of cattle in the feed lots,
a. three year-old steers and ten COWS
and heifers. They are doing all right
and will probably be fed 80 or 100 days
yet.-So many cattle buyers up in Ca
NEVILLE and Center townships that the
price of calves has jumped from SIS to
81, to about Sc to $11-so high that a
man who would have sold before won't
sell at all now-thinks there's something
in them or there wouldn't be so many
buying.-J. S. Dunkin has seventeen
steers that have had fifty days feeding
and are getting good enough now to at
tract attention. In another sixty days
they will be fine ones.-C. A. Louden,
of Hendricks, marketed 600 bushels of
wheat at Sedan, at so cents, but the
price was made earlier and is not offered
now.-John Hosmer marketed wheat fed
hogs last week at $3.50 that netted him
Csc bushel for his wheat. M. Mu-
der, at Rogers, raised a small crop of cas-
tor beans this year, but at no profit, the
yield being only about 81 bushels per
acre and the price low, about 90c.