The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-13

pany, who has been absent for several
| days, is reported better.
/ The periodical yellow fever Juror has
started on its annual preregrination, en-
anating as usual from the magnificent
| brain matter held in special reserve al the
| Chicago board OF trade. Last year the
minimum loss TO the packing Interest,"
from this causeless scare was estimated
as $50, 90, 900. This bugaboo IS every year
used by the short sellers Of provisions as
club TO pound down the market and
usually IL has the desired effect As q
matter Of fact, more people died during
the season IN the cities OF Chicago and
New York than died in the south from
yellow fever. In fact, the epidemic last
summer was more a bilious fever than
the real yellow article. This perennial
rumor IS usually manufactured from the
floor Of the board OF trade by the pro-
tessIonal spectators who are on the short
side Of the provision trade.
A week ago yesterday the market here
was; Tops. s3.55; bulk OF sales, SO. 55G3 IS
average weight, go; receipts, 46. Same
day last year: Tops, So %; bulk OF sales,
So 25q335; average weight. III; receipts.
27S. A year ago yesterday the market
opened 1ec higher and closed weak. \
year ago today Il was quoted IS s cents
higher.
SWINE NOTES
Give the pigs opportunity 70 exercise.
It is better TO build up their frames than
TO load them with fat
Watch your hogs thai are on grass and.
Il necessary, keep them IN thrifty condi-
ton with other feed. II pays 20 keep
them growing rapidly and made ready
70 ~ in - arf-- - rT -f-+
The sows that are intended TO produce
fall filters should be bred so early that
the pigs viii be weaned and they and the
dam brought 10 good condition for stand
ing the winter.
When a sow gets her full growth her
Ltters will be larger, healthier and more
Uniform. 1t will pay to keep such q sow
as long as she IS fl for breeding pur-
poses.
If short Of pasturage and no eoIling
crops are ready, supply the stock with d
ration OF bran daily. Bran is cheap
enough now 70 pay q PROFIT II fed TO
young growing stock
II the pigs become lousy drip a little
lard, with kerosene mixed in II, along their
backs. and renew the treatment every
two or three days until the lice are ex-
terminated.
Chicago Times-H Herald: Provisions con-
tinue TO disappoint the elect. The market
keeps on declining, although with per
haps one notable exception. the packers
have all been bullishIy Inclined The
trade is not quite certain as TO what the
Armour attitude has been, but he GER
tainIy has not given any open support
II has looked as if he took the yellow
fever from the very first scare in April
more seriously than the others at the
yards. The chronic bears among the pack
ers have been all this summer the most
persistent longs, and have been, Of course,
the sufferers in a speculative way. From
April up to about July It was provision
market with two camps, q bull and a bear,
but all through July. while there might
have been influential selling going on
from one quarter there was not an avowed
bear in the pit. The absence OF any con-
test Is probably one reason the market
has been such a mean one. There is no
short interest 70 amount 10 anything.
That is certain. There has been q yellow
fever scare all summer without any vel
low fever epidemic. Provision people are
now as uncertain as they have been all
the while. They don't like to take the
short side after such a long decline, but
they recognize that the market has got
ten along 70 one OF Us jumping OIL pIdCeS-
If the outsider should come into the mar
ket he would not buy anything except
January. Provision people who are friend
" TO the market, before they attempt any
buying, first make a raid They preface
any buying by more or less selling. One
provision broker says the depression is
so universal and so extreme it may be
Just the profitable time for an exhibition
of courage.
The uBfalo Mercantile Review says;
We would again caution shippers Of the
fact that the inspection and condemna-
ton Of piggy sOws. sick pigs, or broken
down or busted hogs by the government
IS very rigid at present, and shippers
should be more than cautious in handling
these kind. as they are almost invariably
and sent 20 the rendering
works and become q dead loss TO the
owners.