The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-15

| stock yards company only use rubber hose
as whips. and with these it would be
! impossible to damage ham. 1t IS very
annoying to the packers, as they cannot
| tell whether a hog is bruised or not until
after they are killed. They desire ship
| pers in the country to use a little more
| care in handling their hogs and TO dis
pense with the use OF anything in driving
that will bruise the meat"
Commenting upon the above, it may be
| SAID that for some time past fully half
I the hogs killed here are found hardly
| bruised, and as this lowers the value
OF ham from 2 to 3 cents per pound,
it is readily seen that a considerable loss
is sustained and that, too. from a cause
entirely unnecessary, and the result of
carelessness. The handling Of all hogs
at the Union Stock Yards could nor be
improved upon anywhere. Old experienced
herders and employees who have been with
the company for years make up the pen
and yards force. and no punching or beat
ing Of hogs is ever done. Short sections
Of hollow rubber hose are alone tolera ed
by the management, and it must follow
that the injury is done TO the animals in
the country before arriving here This at
tention of the buyers and shippers is call
hog industry, and just little care will
soon remedy this circumstance.
Various stock journals are commenting
upon the wide range or spread of hog
prices at various points. Il is noted of
late that very small per cent Of hogs
sell at top figures at Kansas City, and It
takes very good hogs TO bring from u 20
10 cents of top. While the Wichita mar
ket's quotation may on somme days look
small, yet, the quality considered, the
average days market is all right.
DroveFs' Telegram: Ed wigglesworth.
one Of the most extensive sheep dealers
in Kansas, marketed four double-decked
cars Of goats here this week Mr. Wig
glesworth's home is IN Wichita, the Peer
less Princess" but his sheep and goat
feeding operations are carried on at White
Eagle, o. T, where he has about 1000
goats and 5000 sheep still on feed The
goats sold here this week were fed in the
corn ,elds and were in pretty good flesh
averaging 81 pounds. They brought g. %.
c. ". Southwark, a leading hide and wool
merchant of Wichita. Kansas marketed
a car load Of goats today from his feed
lots and pastures at Derby, Kansas, a
small station SIX or seven miles from
Wichita Mr.. Southwark handled during
the past season about 1000 goats and
and all the sheep sill on feed He sold
the tops of his goats on this market in
the latter part of July AT 1915. Those
sold yesterday and today at So. 30 and So D
were the taihngs, and were pastured and
fed since July. Those sold last summer
at 1915 were sent TO market direct from |
the grass. Mr.. Southwark will commence |
TO market his sheep and lambs in about |
six weeks. His interest in sheep and |
goats is a kind of a side affair and sec |
ondary to his large business in hides and |
wool in Wichita.
Exchange: ''The Compound hog which |
arrived at Denver this week. and was to |
be exhibited at the convention week after |
next. died a mysterious death Tuesday |
night He went to bed all right, feeling !
quite strong and in good spirits. but |
when he woke up the next morning he |
was dead. This is probably the first hog
that has ever failed to thrive in Den
yer"
Cincinnati Price Current: There has
been a lessened movement of hogs. West
ern packing, $50 600 head. compared with |
$4,000 head the preceding week. and $50
900 head last year. From November !, the
total is $40 600 head, against 5,lO5.O 600 head |
a year ago. Estimates for the season
to March 1 Indicate a probable total of
y
SOUTH AFRICA A MEAT BUYER.
Owing 10 the terrible ravages OF the
rinderpest and the prolonged drought |
South Africa is threatened with a meat
famine. During the year ended May 81
last, according TO e report to the state
department, from United States Consul
States Consul Stowe, at Capetown. no
less than l. 400 900 head OF cattle were lost
from these causes. while in the same time
the loss of sheep was 2,0S6 000 In many
districts the drought has become worse
since May; all over the country the fara |
ners are selling their breeding stock for
slaughter and the price Of meat is rap
dly rising. In the cities II sells now
from % to 40 cents per pound for beef
and 20 cents for mutton. Prices for liv-
ng are mounting TO the danger point
American -four and corn meal are being
the demand for the latter be-
ng beyond the supply. Altogether. says
he consul. the outlook for a large trade
With the United States in cereals is good
md he regrets only that the United States
,annot share in the large prospective sales
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