The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-23

gan killing. and has continued to sell his
hogs here ever since that time He says
he has tried all the markets In the west
and has found none which surpasses the
one here. He says that It s folly for
a shipper of this section, which is contig-
uous to Wichita, to ship elsewhere. He
estimates that shipper loses from 80 to
$40 car by going to Kansas City or st.
Louis. He says that the difference in
freight from Wellington is about $50
car and to this must be added the higher
yadrege fees, the larger charges for COM
mission, the greater expense of the trip
and the shrinkage Of the hogs, which
amounts generally to nearly 500 pounds
Taking all these items into account, the
total loss cannot be less than stated
above.
Frankie & Shepherd Of Pond Creek, the
weil-known Oklahoma shippers, were on
the market yesterday with a good load OF
hogs which sold at high bulk figure.
Johnston & Hanna of Enid were on
the change yesterday with a car of hogs,
(which they sold for the ruling bulk price.
J. T. Hoover of Boone county, South
Dakota, was a visitor at the stockyards
yesterday. He is here visiting o. c. ia
cobs.
A. Garland Of Kiowa was in yesterday
with good load OF hogs, which he sold
early for d high price. Mr.. Garland says
that he does not understand how any
western or southern shipper can pass the
Wichita market. He says that when the
prices here are within 20 cents of the
Kansas City market, money can be made
by selling here. He points to the fact
that at no time for months has the mar
ket here been more than Is cents away
from the Kansas City prices, while the
greater part of the time it has been with
in 12Jk cents
Jef Houston was IN again from Ponca
City with a good load Of hogs. He is ship
ping a great quantity of hogs of late.
]. B. KeI, the Clearwater stockman,
was on the market yesterday with a
load of hogs which he sold late in the
afternoon at a high price.
Ed Weidline, the veteran Augusta ship
per sold a car Of hogs yesterday on the
market for the ruling bulk price.
A VI. Fritz. Of Ponca City, had fine
load OF hogs in yesterday, which brought
the top price OF the day. Mr.. Fritz has
been topping the market quite frequently
Of late.
T. B. Staley Of Rose Hill sold a good
load fhogs yesterday on the market
for good bulk price. Mr.. Staley is
regular shipper to this market.
renewed strength and cash pork, lard and
ribs each registered an appreciable ad-
vance. Pork opened at $3.50 and closed
at S. 90. Cash lard opened at $50 and
the closing price was s5.271a. Cash ribs
opened at $50 and closed strong at the
same figure. The weak spot in the mar
ket, which was noticeable a few days ago,
seems 10 have disappeared.
The Dold Packing company yesterday
finished up killing a number Of fine lambs
for the Christmas trade They were
select lot and much in demand for butcher
business
The car receipts at the stockyards were
light yesterday. The Frisco brought In
8. the Missouri Pacific 5, the Santa eF
8, and the Rock Island 8.
The killing department OF the Dold
Packing company had a good day yes
terday. During the day 1880 hogs were
slaughtered. This IS the largest number
which has been killed in a day for some
little time.
The shipping business at Dold's was
rather light yesterday on account Of the
near approach of the holidays. The ex-
press trade was good, however, and the
force in charge Of that work was kept
busy all day long getting out consign-
naents.
The busiest departments at Dolds pack
ing plant are the sausage and speciality
departments The new brand OF pressed
pigs feet. which has just been put on
the market in the last few weeks, IS en-
joying big run. The travelling men are
sending in large orders and 1t bids fair
to be one of the most popular speciality
articles produced by the house It IS
packed in ten-pound packages, which
makes It easy to handle. The run on
the Rathman pressed ham and the Dewey
ham sausage continues to be very large.
Select cows Of the Guernsey breed COM
peted together for a butter test in 1899.
There were Is cows from 3 TO years
old. The butter made by each COW ranged
in extremes from 273 TO 90 pounds for the
year, with an average of $50 to 455 pounds.
The only one making less than 4Ot
pounds was the 3-year-old making only
273 pounds. The percentage of butter fat
in the milk was from 46 TO 6.4 and three
COWS reached the highest percentage. /
The best record was by Lily Ella. No
72io owned by J. II. Bierne. Oakfeld.
Wis. She gave 122S2 pounds of milk in
the year from which 91212 pounds OF
butter were made, or about 212 pounds
per day for the full year.