The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-28

he looks for lots of goo dmarketable hogs
In The taraly fall. he corn crop. he says.
Is ali right so far all through his sec
ton.
The old reliable firm of Grace Bros. OF
Cheney were shippers OF cattle and hogs
The cattle deal is described above under
that head and their car Of hogs took the
prize also for tops. they being the only
load which pulled down the high figure
Of $3.65. This enterprising firm always
have in the best their end OF the county
affords. and it Is not infrequent that they
catch the tops when they are IN.
Uncle Philo Hunter was present on the
late market with a car OF very fair me.
diums which sold straight without cock
to Dold for the next to top price for tbs
day. Uncle Philo Is regular shipper 20
this market and comes as often as he
can find car to get together to ship He
says that corn is now pretty we'll dressed,
most of the fields having been cleaned of
weeds, but the crop Is back considera bic,
he says. and II IS still question as to
how It will come out.
Cheskey & Funk Of Nickerson, were
among the early arrivals with a car load
of lights. sold to Dold.
Other markets yesterday were as FOL
lows: Chicago looked for $4,000 hogs, re-
ctived $1,000 which were described by
late bulletin as being "far in excess of
expectation" Market Suffered a decline
Of 10 cents. Left over from Saturday.
1000; established receipts for today, $4,000
1900 were received on Saturday. At
Kansas City market was 5G1O cents lower,
with 1000 in against 3.71O on Saturday.
At st. Louis the market was steady with
5000 receipts, against 800 Saturday. Ribs
and lard were each off nickel
Omaha Drovers Journal: "The Chicago
Live Stock Exchange. at one Of the larag-
est meetings ever held, decided to close
the yards on July A. At this point 1t is
an established rule and Nebraska patriot
ism IS so warm that it was not thought
necessary to even call a meeting to dis
cuss the subject. It goes without saying
that these yards will be closed as a mat
ter Of course.
1.-THE four western markets combined
received 331 900 hogs this week, about 49,
600 more than last week and q o09 in
crease over year ago. OF this number
1878 were received locally and the in
crease over last week reached 1900 and
500 over a year ago, today's supply being
1872 cars, $40 head. Last Saturday SPA
were marketed and year ago 9,O66.
Receipts at Omaha for the year 1898 to
date inclusive are 3d. 79 cattle iIid 996, 122
hogs; an increase as compared with same
period. 1897 of 17.41S cattle and IA, 1874 hogs.
''Wm. Davies of the pork packing firm
of VIM. Davies e. Co., Toronto, Canada,
says that the Canadian bacon hogs are
deteriorating and that he will no longer
pay a premium for them unless they are
killed subject to inspection"
National Live Stock Reporter: ''The
Fourth of July, which comes on Monday
will be observed as a holiday. This Is
the rule at St. Louis; it was unanimously
agreed to at Chicago today, and so report
ed from Kansas City. Therefore the three
markets will have a holiday from Sat
urday afternoon until Tuesday morning"
Last weeks receipts at indianapolis
show a total of $4,000 hogs, nearly 1000
cattle against 1858 hogs and 1868 cattle
last week; q, 12O hogs and 2.519 cattle the
same week a year ago, and 81, 65S hogs and
1852 cattle the corresponding week two
years ago. The cattle and sheep markets
were quotably steady today and hogs sold
higher.
Receipts at the st. Louis National Stock
Yards during the week ending June %
were 10. 19S cattle and 24.243 hogs, against
10. 40 cattle and 2S.O69 hogs received dur
ing the previous week. These figures show
a decrease Of PIP cattle, decrease of 3S2d
hogs. As compared with the correspond
ing week a year ago cattle show a de-
crease of 1000 head. hogs decreased 100
head
Receipts of live stock at the ST. Louis
National Stock Yards so far this year TO
and including today. amounts to 2S9ll9
cattle and S2O,349 hogs. against S12,927 cat
tie and S44. 256 hogs received during the
corresponding period last year. These
figures show a decrease of 23,6oS cattle
and % ,907 hogs.