The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-04

resting on s5.O7, and cash ribs closed also
| sc off at $4.5215.
| New arrangements have been made IN
! the commodious apartments of the Dold
Packing company offices and account
ing department. The managers private
desk, receiving clerks, shipping clerks,
and stenographer assignments have been
so planned thai the utmost convenience,
| freedom of delay and friction is now in
effect, and all affairs expedited with evn
more promptness and despatch.
Other markets yesterday were as fol-
lows: Chicago expected $500 hogs and
received 5000, with $3.50 left over. The
market was quoted as steady. Kansas
City received 14.140 hogs, against 1850 the
day before and the market was quoted as
unchanged from Tuesday. st. Louis was
steady, with 5000 in, against $500 the day
before. On Tuesday the receipts at Chi
cago were 1900, and the estimate for
today IS 5000
Provisions, says the Times-HeraId, have
f1uctuated very little of late, and the pro-
fessi0nal expectation is that the limits
viii be narrow ones for some time 70
come. Stocks Of product are too large to
make an advance easy, except with a
broader speculation than now exists. The
cash demand is not as good as last year,
particularly is this true Of lard. After a
decidedly dull April, when light hog re-
ceipts gave a pretext for speculative
advance, it is generally felt that much
advance in Moy or June when larger re-
ceipts are to be expected, is rather i'm
probable. The professional mood is to
await the May-June run of hogs and to
expect the bull market in the summer
Product is sIoweETAOTBTAOISH
Product is low On that every one is
agreed. The domestic consumption is
good. There is merely lacking enough
foreign demand to cut into the stock ac-
cumulated during the extraordinary pack
ing Of the winter Carrying charges have
wideued out surprising and are likely to
keep heavy until the cash demand con-
siderably improves That is, of course,
against the bull who goes into July or
September to make his purchases. The
outsider is still long a great deal of pro-
duct. Instead of giving up and getting
out as the May delivery day approached,
he simply changed over to July and paid
a heavy toll. According to the talent that
is against much advance. The profession
al view is that a bull provision market
must, to last any length Of time always
be started by cash demand and be helped
along at the outset by the packers who
are best informed always as to the con-
sumptive position.
An Iowa farmer reports the result of
his treatment of lot Of forty-four pigs;
narrowed about May l, 1898. They were
allowed to run on a clover pasture and
were swilled twice a day with shorts and
whey from the cheese factory. He says:
We shelled corn and soaked it in wa
ter. They were fed on this corn until
new corn was matured enough to snap
Thes we changed from the old corn to the
new. This was done gradually. These
shoats were allowed to run on the pasture
until a snow storm, November 81 drove
them 10 the yards. Then we took out
ten for brood sows this spring. Later on
four were butchered for the years meat,
leaving thirty in the lot. They were care
fully taken care Of being fed corn three
times a day, just what they would eat
up clean. They also had all the swill
they could drink twice day. We mar
keted them the 14th day of January; the
average weight of the 30 head was 321ls
pounds and the average weight was 24
pounds, the average gain per day from
birth being about IL pounds"