The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-15
below tho demand.


The Burton State bank had in q car:oaI
Of hogs CT medium light grade which sold
without dock at the top price.
Jeff Houston shipped up from Ponca
Eity a carload of light mediums which
sold at the top mark.
The cattle market was nearly Hfeiess,
there being one bunch Of II head of stock
e-s averaging SO3 pounds. and selling at
z.3a. These were part Of a carload Of
stJckers and feeders shipped in by Jim
BDsley OF Clearwater. Tom Spear also
Of Clearwater shipped in a carload of
butcher stuff on the early market. The
quotation was given as steady for yes
terday.
Yesterday was a good Monday at Dod's
md the shipments from all departments
We're heavy and the destinations widely
scattered. Last week was one of the
heaviest Of the season, and on Saturday
night all the smoke houses were hung
full Sunday was kept busy in several
divisions and the business opened yester-
day with another big batch Of large size
orders.
Provisions yesterday were firm but ex-
tTemely dull. The strength was a ten
cent advance in hogs. Cash lard closed
or % cents at $50. and cash ribs steady
"a; S5.031.
Chicago had estimated 25OOO hogs for
yesterday and received 23,OOO. On Satur-
day the receipts were S6l4. and the esti-
mate Tor today is 20.000.
Mr.. Frank Robbins returned yesterday
morning to Medicine Lodge, where he is
looking after cattle.
Work is progressing very nicely at the
big new we'll at the Dold plant and with
no unlocked for hindrances will be finished
at the expected time.
Mr.. Jack Osborne, night man at the
stock yards. has returned from his sec
ond trip to Los Angeles. Cal. where he
went in charge OF A shipment OF stock
ABOUT HOG CHOLERA.
The fact that hog cholera, or swine
Plague. is almost exclusively confined 10
com producing localities and that hogs
which are reared and fattened on an al
most exclusive corn diet have constantly
Geranged digestion. and are easy marks
Tor swine plague. are becoming more and
more apparent 10 observant farmers. So
says J. {. Suffern in Livestock. EnliCht-
ened man (even many professional swine
bleeders) has violated natures laws by in
venting hog rings AMI stock laws and
confirming his highly improved hogs on
tame grass pastures and fenced lots.
where they cannot urearth the various
tubc.s and roots which contain the min
erai ingredients 50 necessary for proper
4 session ard ultimate nutrition and med
!cation Of their various intricate bodily
tissues. IN the writer's opinion, support
q ly n any recent writers on the subject
f3-crllad cholera or swine plague, + al
mo-; entirely due 20 diseases which have
their origin in Indigestion. arising from
a. aim '>t exclusive corn diet.
Com Is rich in fat and heat forming
ingredients. ult K Is very deficient n
n5rin. carbon. Nitrogen or muscle, bone
and bicod-form.us elements. The hogs
digestive ORGANS. ,>9ecia.ly during late
autumn land tais IS usually the season
when cholera 60 Is SO ramu-nt).' being
Corged with too much corn. unaccom-
panied by other foods are thrown into
a state OF deranEywcut which 6etracts
from their naturally healthy process Of
converting food into chyme. As n re-
suit hoge have weak muscles and lyaues
aud impure blood. In fact their grow
io- bodies are in such a derau-ed con-
Lijion that they become easy prey for
specific microbes or germs, which are
continually multiplying in their bodies
ard which develop cholera, or swine
plague. But these disease producing
germs cannot obtain a foothold in the
healthy bodies Of hogs which are kept