The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-01

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221; receipts SIS For the same day last
week: Tops, 1855; bulk Of sales sS.5qq
S.65; average weight 22s; receipts 34S. For
! the same day last year: Tops $3.50; bulk
| Of sales So 75d$390; average weight ZIG;
| receipts 319.
| Other markets yesterday were as fol-
lows: Chicago expected 2. coo hogs and
received 90, 90. with 2.79S left over, against
/ 10000 the day before. The market was
quoted as to 10 cents lower Kansas
| City received 5000 hogs against S, 30 the
| day previous, and the market was weak
| to cents lower. ST. Louis was quoted
as cents lower with 400 hogs received
| against 400 on Tuesday There was a
| decline Of from ~ TO 1212 cents in pro-
| visions, caused by lower live stock mark
cts and hquidating by packing interests
! Of pork and lard. the latter suffering the
/ most.
The roads doing the hauling yesterday
were as follows: Santa Fe. 1; Rock Is
| land, 1; and the Kansas Midland l.
Chicago looks for 5000 hogs today.
Indiana polls Live Stock Journal, Satur-
! day: Receipts OF hogs this week show
/ a fair improvement over last week and an
/ increase Of 1900 over the same week d year
! ago and 1850 over the corresponding
week two years ago. The receipts SO lar
/ this year show an increase Of 242. 600 COM
pared with the same period last year.
For the week ending yesterday packers
/ bought a total Of 7, 40 against sos the
preceding week and 1851 the same week
year ago. During the same period the
shipments were Is. 324. against 1913 the
{ mo al arI 4
ing week year ago. The market for the
week opened with the tendency in prices
lower but later there was an advance
Of about 1Oc in the general average. After
the middle Of the week there was another
reaction and a widening OF the margin
between prices Of light and heavy grades.
At the close Of the week light hogs av-
eraging 40 to $50 lbs were selling fully
10c higher than al the opening Of the
week and heavy grades were generally
about 215c lower than at the beginning Of
/ the week
Buffalo Review: The receipts Of skip
Ply pigs continues 70 be exceedingly liberal
notwithstanding the continued notices and
advices OF the low prices that are daily
given the shippers together with the fact
that no small number OF them are con-
demned and sent 10 the rendering works
a dead loss 10 the shipper. The only con-
cIusion 10 be drawn is that the districts
that they came from are endangered by
hog cholera, and the owners are ship
ping out what Pigs they have. TO obtain
as much as possible from them in prefer
ence 20 taking the chances Of losing them
by tbs dreaded disease.
rovers Telegram: Receipts for last
week amounted to 40 400 cattle and 81, 900
hogs against g, 314 cattle and 1854 hogs.
The week previous S. 7SS cattle and A.
257 hogs for the corresponding week last
year. The principal falling of IN cattle
receipts, compared with the same week
last year. was due TO the smaller run
of cattle in the Teas division. Hogs show
a moderate falling off compared with a
year ago"
The American Agriculturist referring 10
diseases in hogs has the following from
a correspondent: "Bloating.-A HIS. Pigs.
three months old were fed on boiled corn
meal and milk and weeds and grass from
the garden. One evening they were very
much bloated and one died. The next
morning another died When It was Op-
ened il was found that the bladder was
burst. There had been among the weeds
some substance which acted on the urin-
airy organs causing an increase Of urine, I
and in those that died. structure Of the
neck Of the bladder. Il would be neces- /
sary to find out the kind of plant which /
caused the trouble before we could ad- /
wise treatment"
From the Cincinnati Price Current: /
There is not much change in the cur
rent movement of hogs in the aggregate. /
The Western Strengthening for the week .
has been SO, 900, compared with 305 coo the /
preceding week. and 335. 900 two weeks ago. /
For corresponding time last year the num-
Der was 2S5, 900. From March l the total
is IO.175. 600. against $50. 900 a year ago
an increase of 1855, 600 Prices have aver
aged a little lower than the preceding
week, closing slightly higher than a week
ago. In general characteristics he provis-
ion trade IS without new feature The
week closes with prices of principal arti-
cles of product at about the same posi-
ton as d week ago. The domestic distri
button OF product is of fair proportions.
The weeks export clearances were fair.
but not notably large of either lard or
bacon. the latter disclosing a gain over
the movement a year ago.
Daily Mercantile Review: There is a
great deal of complaint coming in from
shippers OF grassy and habitat hogs,
largely from Michigan, although a num-
Der Of these kind are beginning TO come
from Ohio and Indiana shipping points.
The shrinkage on this class Of hogs is
generally reported 70 be heavier this sea-
son than usual or at least for some rea-
son past, which Is due, no doubht to the
very warm weather and the superabun-
dance of grass feed this season The
hogs may look all right at home, but
some Of the shippers who have a kodak.
should take a picture OF them when they
are full Of grass. wind. etc, and then
have another look at them. when they
have been shipped to market and unload
ed without water or grass for few hours
on, my countrymen what a change.