The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-30

are as follows: For yesterday: Tops,
S-62l2; bulk Of sales, S. 5211zgS 6211a: average
weight. 233; receipts, go For the day
previous: Tops. $3.50; bulk Of sales. $3.50
$50; average weight, 222; receipts, 754 For
the same day week ago: Tops, s. 70; bulk
Of sales. S-55q3.70; average weight. 21s;
receipts, 40. For the same day a year
ago: Tops, $3.50; bulk OF sales, s. bG3. 277zz
average weight. z2s; receipts. ss7.
The Dold Packing company shipments
yesterday were cars Of mixed packing
house products shipped ali over the coun-
Try, ranging from Portland. Oregon, 20
Boston; and as far south as New Or
leans.
The roads doing the hauling yesterday
were as follows: Kansas Midland, 2; and
one each over the Rock Island. Santa
Fe, and Frisco.
Other markets yesterday were as fol-
lows: Chicago received %, 900 hogs and
with good local and shipping demand
the market was showed up TO average
about 5 cents higher. Kansas City was
varIously quoted one Of the last bUlle-
tins saying: Light supply and good de-
mand tended TO strengthen prices. Early
sales to 10c higher. Advance partially
lost; late sales about cents higher"
Steady 70 cents higher and active was
one OF the earliest quotations. ST. Louis
was quoted as steady with receipts only
$50. Provisions showed on the close ribs
IA cents UP. and lard I2iz cents up.
Chas. H. Pool. cashier Of the Sedgwick
County Bank, and Mr.. o. ". James OF
Chicago, were callers at the stock yards
yesterday.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Top hogs at St Louis year ago, $2.7714.
averaging 17S pounds.
Indianapolis Live Stock Journal, Thurs
day: receipts OF hogs so far this year
including today show total OF nearly
100000 and the Increase SO far this year
compared with the same periol sat year
is about 300"
National Live Stock Reporter: "a lot
Of cattle, % head, arriving At Santiago
de Cuba, from New Orleans. this week,
was sold out at SIS per head. The butcher
IS able to retail one head per day at 20
cents per pound, equal TO. say. SIS cents
per pound here. General Shafter report
ed the market"
Sioux City Stock Journal: Cattle are in
prime condition and when finished for
market will weigh from 30 to loo pounds
more than cattle OF the same ags this
tine last year. The output viii be about
half Of what II was last season. A larger
percentage Of range raised cattle will get
10 market this year than any previous
year"
The money for stockmen in the future
IS to be made by combining farming and
stock raising. This amaigamation Will
have 10 take place in time as the ranges
are being 80 universally cut up IN this
section OF the United States. Ranges are
a thing Of the past. The advance Of se;-
tiers 10 the west and the rapid strides
that are being made in agriculture have
doomed the ranges and they are rapirdly
going out of existence. In the future far
mers viii make money by raising alfalfa
for range men. The size of the herds
will not be reduced so much, but the
cattle Will be confined in a smaller area,
and viii have TO be fed. The feed will
either have TO be raised by the owner Of
the stock on his farm lands. or purchased
from farmers who viii make that their
business.-Ft Worth Live Stock Reporter.
Texas Farm and Stock Journal: The
demand for sheep 10 be placed in the feed
lots has been so strong a 5 TO keep prices
a a point which have made feeders some
what uneasy. but strong as has been the
deman the number Of sheep so far going
to the markets has been about 275,oo0 less
than to the same date last year. During
the last few days there has been some
decline in prices of the poorer qualities.
but ranchmen are so strongly inclined 10
re-stock the western ranges that prices
can not get 10 q very low point"