The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-08
KANSAS FARMERS EXPORT
SENDING THEIR OWN CATTLE OVER
TO LIVERPOOL.
A Big Break in Feeders-Prices
Down to Bed Roci1-Heavy Cattle
still Under the Hammer-Fat
Sheep Scarce at Last-PersonaI
Notes.

from last week, it has been for the |
worse. There Is no life at all in the /
feeder trade. and it closed last week
fully 25 cents lower and has not re-
covered any this week. !
Farmers are all busy now with har-
vest and do not come to market to buy |
SO freely as OF late. The prospect for |
a big corn crop in all the corn grow |
ing districts was never better, and no !
doubt the feeder trade viii soon stiff |
fen up Good cattle are scarce now,
and feeders Will experience much |
trouble this fall in finding cattle to
eat the surplus corn from last year 5
crop say nothing of the millions OF
bushels now growing with every pros
pect of a larger yield than last year.
Prices on American cattle in LONDON /
have advanced y cent this week, but
exporters do not feel disposed to make
any advance fere just yet. Some or
the heavy feeders of Emporia, Kan,
believing that there must be pront
somewhere along the line for tat cat
tie have formed a pool and will export
their own cattle 10 London The first
shipment went out last week. and it
will be watched very closely by the
big four" and others with years of eX-
perience in the trade to see how the
Kansas farmer will come out. We do
not expect that the first shipment will
be profitable for the reason that all
the dealers in that line will throw
every obstacle possible in the way to
discourage all such ventures.
1t is quite an undertaking, and re-
quires q big outlay of money to carry
out the scheme. and to one who has
never tried shipping by water many
trials and fluctuations Will surely
come, with delays, and possibly the
loss of some OF the cattle on account
of inexperience in such shipments The
strong prejudice existing against
American meats all over Europe makes
1t hard for a stranger to make sales.
J. c. Leary of the Union Stockyards
went to Milford Saturday to look after
shipments of cattle going north that
will stop for feed and branding at the
Union yards The first lot arrived
Sunday night and numbers 1000 head,
with 1000 or 5000 more to follow for
the same parties The stockyard Office
has the appearance of wholesale
hardware store Just now, being fitted
up with branding irons of every shape
from a straight bar down TO the letter
Z. belonging to ranchnen in Nebras-
ka, Wyoming, North Dakota and Mon
tana who will hold their shipments
and brand here in the chute invented
by the manager.
1
his ranch near Iron Point, Nevada, on
Tuesday that went to the United States
company. 1t is not necessary to COM
ment on these cattle, when you know
who fed them. Mr.. Noble has paid
strict attention to breeding good calves.
and Individual merit with plenty of
good grass and water. enables him to
turn off nothing but first-claSs stuff
which always commands the top of the
market.
Too much care cannot be exercised
in selecting bulls for the herd. The
first point is individual merit: then
see that thu pedigree is of the strong
est and best reproducing female. No
breeder can afford to use grade bulls
when pure breeds can be got at the
present low prices Just as good cat
tie can be raised in Utah as old Ken
lucky or Missouri, if the farmers would
only give the matter proper attention.
No farmer can afford to feed scrub cat
tie. and 1t takes no more feed for a
good. we'll bred Hereford than for a
miserable coarse, bony Holstein. 1t is
also impossible to grow beef cattle
from milk breeds. and the farmer who
attempts it will be sadly left 1t has
been tried time and again, but the
two will not go together. The
breeds are distinct and cannot be
sUcce ssfully crossed. While breeding
for merit remember that uniform col
ors make one of the prime factors.
When a uniform bunch of any breed is
offered they always bring better
price than a mixed lot. Of late much
concern has been manifested among
eastern farmers on account Of the well
bred cattle that are coming from the
western ranges, making such strong
competition for the home grown stuff
For years the range men in many OF
the western states have continued tc
buy good purebred bulls of the well
known beef breeds at the low prices
that have prevailed for the past ter
years ill the scrub range steer that
used to be so common on the market
has become a thing of the past. !
noted Scotch breeder puts a frozen fac
in breeding in ire following compass
and easily remembered form: "A really
good bull will make g herd even from
moderate cows. whilst an inferior bull
will ruin a herd regardless of the higf
qualities IT may contain
During May at the four leading mar
kets S.400 cattle. 1.195.600 hogs ant
572100 sheep. against 39S,S70 cattle
7.17O,S51 hogs and 456,551 sheep in May
1896
Top cattle June l. 1895, were S5.45
same day this year $780,
Export shipments the last week il
May broke all former records. the to
tai being 31e cars. Same week las
year 1876 cars.
During the first FIVE months of 1S9
receipts in the west We're as follows:
Cattle, 2,039, 500; hogs. 5,493,100; sheep
1882. 800.
In 1890 for the same time 1881 90
cattle 5.7SS,744 hogs and 1.99417e sheep
Increase in cattle and sheep, decreas
in hogs.
June i. 1895. top hogs were $500 Thi
year s3.0215 Sheep in 1895 were abou
the same as now with not so good
demand as at present. The dry 10
sheep have been about closed out an
mutton eaters VIII have to depend o
gross for the choice chops in the fu
ture The same condition exists here
We are long on mint but short o
lambs
fitzpatrick Bros of Beatrice, Neb
were at the yards this week arrang
ing TO brand 700 or 800 steers tha
will be unloaded here on Tuesday e
route to Nebraska.
J. s. Green, of the firm of Green
Bodger. Bismarck. N D.. was on til
yards arranging TO brand a big strin
of cattle today. The next shipmer
will be made at Milford on Sunday.
A. Logan. big cattle man from Ri.
1narck, is here looking for steers fc
his range in North Dakota.
w. c. Allyn. representing the con
and Chicago, is in town looking f
trade.
Paul and Robert Brewster. of MOI
tana, have a large string of steer
coming uD from the south in a fe
days and will stop here for feed ar
brand
w. N. Whitney, of Evanston, Wye