The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-19
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s45IPPEks AID NOTES.

Ex-County Treasurer T B. Cartwright
and Jerome Terley Of OatviIe put their
aogs together and made up a car load
They were Of their own raising, and sold
AZ the Union stock yards yesterday for
q shade under the top price The ex-
county treasurer said he sold hogs just
one year ago and got about 20 cents
less than his hogs brought yesterday.
W 3. Ledsham of Freeport is new
shipper on this market He had in A car
load yesterday that brought the top
pr-ce. He said the market was going the
wrong way for him, but he looked at the
matter in a philosophical way, like an
Old syecUlatcr.
J. NJ. RatcIif Of Cunningham is one of
the best-known shippers that come 10
the ichita market. He IS a rustler and
sent in another car load of hogs yester-
day that brought the top price.
Adam Huffbauer OF Mulvane swore off
bucing any more hogs until the market
struck b3ttom, and the boys about the
yards laughed yesterday when another
car load Of his hogs arrived.
There have been so many hogs driven
down the Dold Chutes leading from the
stock yards that the ground was carried
out or worn out. The stock yards m
pany are having gravel hauled in to
Ill W the low praces. D0Id buys so
y q
smooth road to travel on.
Fred Dold, manager Of the Dold pack
Ing house. returned last evening from a
business trip 70 Kansas City. Mr. Dold
IS an out-and-out Wichitsn, but for all
that he seems % think that Kansas City
Is right smart Of a town for BUS ness.
Superintendent Charles Darrigrand OF
she DoId packing house, said last night
that with the exception that the corner
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four inches and they were not going TO
raise II with t300-ton jacks. that item
ABOUT the corner and the raising vas
eminentlv correct.
a bulletin from the United States de-
partueut of agriculture advises the
sEearing # lambs in October. before be
ginning TO fatteu for the winter market
They say five wethsrS shorn October l.
and fed for Is weeks. gained e5tz pounds
AT q cast of S5.1I per hundred pounds.
while FIVE similar wethers, not shortn,
fed in the same way at the sane time
gained 2l0is pounds at a cost Of $50 per
hundred In another trial, eight we he's
were shorn October 6, and fed for ten
weeks gaining 1914 pounds. Another ke
lot were not shoru, and il was found
that the shorn lambs had n abe Ihe
most gain and mstured much earlier.
Forty nine thoroughbred SaorJhorn cat
i
yesterday. 81 the annual show Of blood
ed Shorthorns and Herefords for an
average price OF SIS. The bidding Al
I mes was lively Supplement. thor
CUghbred Hereford. owned-by II. c. Dun
can, OF Osborne, No, drought S5e5. and
Warden Secret owned By George z.
Ward OF Harvard 4, Iowa. was bough-
IN by Ward at S50e, and the money pre-
scented 10 the Short horn association.
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first prize in the exhibition contest of
bulls 10 be sold. was secured by ". r.
Nelson proprietor Of the Kansas City
star. for S4S5, after some lively 5ifd.nS.
GIaZurka Champion winner OF second
Erize in the exhibition of bulls and third
prize in the pen contest for yearIinSs,
went 70 3. F. Winn. E5gerton. No. Tor
SOS: Brsmpton knight. owned by E. 5
liver Of Dia genial. Iowa. and ROYAL Red
owned BY Hanna & Co II HowarG.
Kan. a,so each brought Sf25- The sale
Of Srorthorns viii b continued rocsy
the sale of Herefords opening on next
Monday.
Hogs at Chicago last week aversrel
only 81 pounds. being The Nshetst s-ncs
the rhird week OF last June and unusu
ally light for this time OF the yea.
which Is accounted FOR hy the tncrease e
marketing OF underwetghts, including
great many so tsf-E'oGDo p--S- 4eIV =
a food of ls9Tls5- pound averages. while
the proportion OF big heavy hogs va
notieeabiy smaller than for many vel ks,
ard in fact. many months past Aver
age the previous week. ga pounds; same
week last month. 20 pounds and year
ago. rs pounds
A recent Dispatch from To7elSa says
that The compilation OF Kansas as
SCISSORS returns. showing the values ~
n me or on the farm, OF animals slsugn-
ed or sod for slaughter and the pe0l-
-, and eggs marketed il the year ed
snr NaEch : just completed BY Sacre-
.arv 2. p. Coburn. OF the state board %
evricultUre evidences that Kansas noS
ouf IS well forward. but continues 70 I