Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
OF INTEREST TO STOCKMEN
INCREASE IN CATTLE SHIPMENTS
FROM II STATES.
Kansas Is Furnishing Nearly Double
the supply She Did Last Year
Some Figures of General
Interest.

The origin of stock at the yards for the
| past five months makes an interesting
showing. OF the thirty states and terrific
| ries that have had cattle on the yards here
since January no less than twenty-one sent
| in more cattle than a year ago. Kansas has
furnished 80. .49S more cattle than last year;
Texas receipts have increased 1S,165; Ne
braska, 1854; Oklahoma, SOS; Arkansas.
| 3.fS1, and the others smaller numbers, the
total gains being 1876.
Hogs, too, have been marketed here moro
freely, the receipts the. past FIVE months
being 26i.145. Kansas alone sent in 1885
more hogs than last year. Missouri S9,6l7
more, Oklahoma 1891. with slight gains
from Arkansas, Colorado and Minnesota
Nebraska and Texas have given us fewer
hogs than last year, and from Iowa the re-
ceipts also show a slight shortage.
Sheep. like hogs and cattle, have been
coming in much more freely than last year.
OF the seventeen states and territories fur
nishing supplies for the market eleven
have sent in more sheep than the same time
last year. Kansas leads, with an increase
of Sc 80; Colorado next, with 1900. and New
Mexico and Texas with 5.1n and 3.3SS more,
respectively, and the others show smaller
gains. Nebraska and Missouri fell short in
their supplies.
Charley Leigh, the popular cattle sales
man for the Drumm-Flato Commission
Company, is lying at his home in Independ-
ence Mo-. with his left hand shot of, and
is congratulating himself that it is not his
head Just before starting to town yester-
gun and started for the barn to shoot rats
that are running away with his stable.
Somehow, he is unable to explain. he
tripped on piece of barbed wire and fell,
his gun went off and his left hand was torn
to pieces. A doctor was called and it was
amputated at the wrist. He has the SYM
pathy of every one at the yards.
There were a number of droves OF hand
some cattle in yesterday. Funkhauser
Bros, of Madison. kaS., were here with
twenty grade ShortEorn steers that at once
nounced A No. l. They were OF their own
feeding and, with corn and alfalfa, put
on 200 pounds in eighty days. They aver
aged LAS pounds and were sold by Wright
x Hannah at A.95, the highest price of
the day. Swift & Co. got them for their
dressed beef trade.
of the successful feeders in Kansas, A.
p. Loveland. of Neal, must be placed
among the first He was here yesterday
with sixty head of grade steers of his own
feeding that were very smooth and beefy.
They averaged 1429 pounds and were sold
by werner a. Scroggin at $4-S5, but 10c from
the top price of the day. Eastman got
them for the export trade. They were put
on full feed of shelled corn January l. and
made gain of 400 pounds and a net profit
of 81 per head, or $3.50.
1t was quality rather than weight that
attracted the attention OF cattle buyers
yesterday. of the medium weight steers
IN, j: f. Bates. of Nortonville Kas had
nineteen worthy of more than passing no.
tice- They were plainly bred, but had on
a hne corncrib cross, and showed skillful
handling. Standish & Trowbridge sold
of the day. Eastman took them for the
export trade.