The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-19
HOGS D CENTS LOVER
Dull Day and Quality Only
Fair.
TOPS DOWN TO $3.50
Cattle Steady to Strong With
Receipts Fairly Good,

The Wichita hog market yesterday ruled
10 cents lower in accordance with the
tendency OF all other live stock centers
and the final break in the provision Dit.
The run was again light, but not mere
so than has been the prevailing condition
Tor week or more, and only the logical
sequence Of the regularly recurring mid
summer lul. There is nothing startling
or abnormal in the present du!tness. as
1t is the present experience of all the cad
= ing western receiving points, and a Sit
uatloh al all times expec,ej and under
STOOD mat there is scarcity Of good
desirable fat slaughter hogs in the coun
Iy tributary 70 this marke-, there IS no
question, but It must always be reInern-
oered that right now is the interregnurn
the calm between two srorms. So RI
speak. The best of the marketable hogs
nave been marketed, and this year his
cogent TACT is more than ever significant
since the big May squirt had the natu-
raj eneot of rushing into the local mar
ket all hogs in the country which were
anywhere near in marketable condition
AS matter of fact, voucned for by ref
erence 10 the fures submitted from all
me western points, many hogs were mar
keted during that high price time which
ordinarily would have been held for more
complete fattening. Prices ruled abnor-
maIly high, and the temptation was Of
course strong for shippers and feeders 20
hurry into the market anything in ths
shape OF hog, knowing full well that
they would bring fancy price, as com
pared with prices usually ruling. The
logical result was that the country uni
NersaAy. not alone here out everywhere
else, was drained Of hogs which anyWhera
near became available. So il comes thar
hogs Of anything like butcher grade are
now a scarcity, the high price squirt TAX
ing them all out. As suggested above.
right now is the between times condition.
the crop Of spring swine not yet beng
in marketable trim. and all he ship
ping stock gone. That there is a fair
and probably good outlook for a big vol
ume of killinh hogs for the coming sea-
son, there can be no question, a all the
leading shippers and breeders, patrons Of
ms market, are united in saying that the
crop OF spring pigs has been generally
very good, and subsequent results have
been unusually satisfact Dry. In only a few
districts has disease among swine been
detected, and so far as the shippers re-
ports go, the ailing has not been cholera.
but rather falling off in progeny, ard
All &c" cases d trouble IN the mouth and
eating ability OF the animal There can
be no reasonable doubt that the crop
of stock hogs, such as will be marketed
the coming season, is all that could be
expected, but until they get into good
fat trim, the receipts are bound to be
light, and all interests ought to consider
and accept this and be content until the
big boom commences, which every one
looks for the coming season. The Dold
Packing company were the only buyers
on the market yesterday, and readily
took in all the offerings presented, and
were on hand to bid for many more had
they appeared This concern is day af-
ter day packing and curing all cuts of
meats so far as they can get the hogs,
and would put into finished produces ma
ny more hogs could they procure them,
paying all the time the best prices war
rantable with other centers, most Of the
time the past three weeks, paying for
heir hogs price close up within the diff
ferential at Kansas City, in fact, closer
TO Kansas City's price than has over be-
fore been paid. Markets everywhere yes
terday were lower. generally 10 cents the
weakness in provisions having a natural
depressing effect on the live stock trade
which was shared in by the Wichita mar
Lot