Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-10-22
OF INTEREST TO STOCKMEN.
MANY sToCKERs AND FEEDERS ARE
BEING TAKEN TO THE COUNTRY.
Farmers Prefer Feeding Their Corn to SELL
Ing IL at Present Low frtces-A Car
load OF Mules for Cuba-;a
with stock.

Despite the low market for beef cattle
/ stockers and feeders are being taken 10
/ the country in surprising numbers, the
I great abundance of corn and it's chcap-
/ ness encouraging everyone to feed who
| can raise money enough to buy feeding
I cattle. There were no less than 4i1
cars. or about l2.OO0 head. against 3I3
| cars. or 1900 head, the week previous
Heorse Caldwell OF this city pur-
chased saturday at Golden city, Mo
one car OF mules for cuba. They will
80 hrst to New orleans and from there
To a plantation on the island. the owner
OF which, 1t Is said, Will turn them over
To the insurgents.
The Chicago Live Stock Commission
company filed articles of Incorporation
Yesterday with the secretary OF state
OF Kansas. The capital stock is 500, 0Oo
Inc directors are r. B Lee W. + At
kins Of Kansas city, Mo- aud r. j.
Mack. NJ w. Carroll and r. II. Elliott.
OF Kansas CITY, Kas.
1t Is said all the sickness reported
among hogs In the country is not
cholera, but much VI It is due to the
overfeeding OF new corn.
Texas and the Indian Territory are
sending us a good many hogs now 1t is
surprising how the hog industry Is grow
ing In that section
y shipment of 1900 Anrura goats was
received here yesterday They are
pretty things but hard to sell
Ihe order of Secretary Morton issued
recently permitting Mexican cattle 10 be
brought into the United states for graz
ing purposes will go into effect to-day.
D. McCunningham. United States live
stock agent of the bureau of animal in
dustry in Texas, says the Mexican cattle
to come In are generally in good con-
dltion He estimates that there are So
goo TO come in at III Paso and Fort
HANCOCK, and l5.0oo through Deming
n. NJ, in case that port is opened.
II. u. COOK, Duncan. l. T.. was N with,
cattle yesterday.
j. y. Norman, the horse auctioneer. Of
Lexington. Ill. is in the city and thinks
of going to work for the Kansas City
horse and mule market.
Mr.. whitney, American Falls, ID. was
here yesterday with thirteen cars Of cat
tie, his first shipment.
Perry Gallatin and Arthur James were
In yesterday with cattle
II. W. Fleming. Mound City, Kas.. had
in hogs yesterday.
r, NJ. McFarln. Wewoka, I. r. was
here Yesterday with cattle.
T. c. Mitchell. OF Garden City, Kas.,
was at the yards yesterday with cattle.
He says the range is good in his country
and that there is plenty of roughness.
Alfalfa and sorghum both good. No
corn is raised. yet the number Of hogs
is increasing in the country every year.
They live off alfalfa, with a small ration
each day Of wheat and barley. and they
thrive on it.
Lee Woods, OF Purcell I. T. was n
visitor at the yards yesterday. He says
the range is good and cattle scarce. He
says 5000 cattle have been sold from
around that point alone for feeding in
Texas, Corn selling at IL to 20 cents
In Paul's Valley it can be bought at 10
cents
George Burk, Neal, Kas., was in yes
teriay with cattle
j w. James Great Bend, Kas.. came
in Yesterday with hogs
y. Nordine, Dwight. Kas., had in cat
tie and hogs Yesterday