The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-30
BUGS KILL CATTLE
Mr. BROWN SAYS CHINOH BUGS
CAUSE BOVINE FATALITY.


He commends the Interview Given In the
Eagle with Reference to the Cause OF
Cattle Dying from Eating Corn Stalks
but Says that it is Poison from Chinch
Bugs that is the Primary Cause.-The has
Good Words TO Say Concerning the
wichita Market and Afiirms that 1t Is
Growing in Popularity.
1.-THE Wichita market is now becon-
ing a market in fact and should De SO
considered by every shipper within
radius of 100 miles," said William
Brown of Anthony to an Eagle repre-
sentative yesterday after getting his
check cashed for a good amount.
az NAVE bought and shipped stock
almost all my life. OF course when
boy / did not do much buying myself
but when accompanying my father, l
paid more strick attention to the de-
tails than 1 ever do now.
rAt that time we used to ship hogs
10 Cincinnati, and early learned that
TO make good money that the less time
Won could get your hogs on the market
after leaving the feeding pens the pet
Ter for all concerned, and the greater
the profits A shipper can take the best
care possible of his hogs but ne VIII
find that they will shrink double the
amount of pounds the second twenty
four hours than they do the first TWEEN
ty-four.
''This is one reason that no man can
make money by shipping hogs to KAN
sas City instead Of to Wichita unless
there is a greater difference than 20
cents per hundred pounds. At Wichita
the shipper saves a big shrinkage. He
has but few Grips or dead hogs, and is
able 10 return home with more money
than though he had shipped TO the
river.
There was time when man could
not depend upon finding buyers here.
but ] am glad TO say that time is pass
ed. and before stock is unloaded he is
met by buyers anxious to take his
stock. There can be no complaint made
against the two packing houses here at
the present time, as to either a demand
or the price.
ut is true that for a time they held
TO prices showing too great a difference
Between the market here and at Kan
sas City, and as a result received no
hogs north or east of Wichita. With
the difference in the prices they were
unable to do a profitable business, for
it is a well established fact that to
make money at packing the plant must
lie opera ted at something near its full
capacity, and when they realized this
they advanced the price so as to draw
from points naturally contributary to
the Wichita market
"a year ago / was discoura ged as to
the Wichita hog market, which means
everything to southern Kansas, and
begun shipping to Kansas City, and so
you see / am fully prepared to state
that a shipper cannot afford to ship
hogs to the river within a radius of 100
miles from Wichita north and east, and
double that distance south and west.
There is some little hog cholera
among hogs in some portions of the
country, but this disease does not play
the havoc with swine as ii does in the
eastern state. Then If one mans stock
got the cholera it was sure to go the
rounds, hut here mans hogs may be
affected. and yet his neighbor short
distance away will have his hogs per-
fectly healthy.
81 was glad to see the Eagle publish
Its timely warning with reference to
stock running upon stalk fields. and
believe the position taken by the ship
pers and feeders. as we'll as their ad-
vice was well taken, yet 1 do not think
they struck the real cause of the death
of cattle
II have watched this thing pretty
close and have always noticed that in
corn fields adjoining wheat and oats
which was filed with chnck bugs al
ways proved fatal to cattle. 1 lay the
cause TO chfnch bugs. They are pois-
onouS and when taken into the stom-
ach OF a beef they dry up the gastric
juice OF the stomach and cause dry
1nurrain. In buying stalk fields
always notice whether or not the corn
has been affected by chinch bugs
believe law should be passed compell-
ing such fields to be burned If You
will notice that under the first covering
Of the stalk taken from field affected
10y these pests you will find hundreds
or eggs. Now these are taken into the
stomach and at once the animal be-
comes sick You may waiter them all
You want TO but water won't save
them You see I am somewhat of a
methodist when il comes to drowning
chinch bugs when they are once taken
Into an animals stomach.
The best plan would be to dig
trenches between small grain fields and
your corn and kill the bugs before they
enter the field. 1t takes work. but It
VIII pay. When bug flies there is no
longer amy evil effects and in a few
days he is dead. Kill the chinch bugs
and you will not hear of cattle dying
from ea ting corn stalks"