The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-01

bulk price. Two loads were composed Of
medium weight packers. while the third
was made up Of extreme heavy hogs.
Mr.. Haskell is regular shipper TO this
market and never thinks of going else
where, being only too well pleased with
the results Of his dealing on this mar
ket. He is well known here and is very
popular with the commission men, as
well as being one of the most prominent
shippers in southern Kansas
JEFF Houston, the reliable shipper OF
GPonca City, had load in yesterday,
which sold for the bulk price He is one
of the heaviest individual shippers in the
territory.
]. B. KeIl of Clearwater received the
bulk price yesterday for load Of heavy
hogs which were sold quite late on the
market Mr.. Kell has been shipping to
this market for a number of years, and
is a firm advocate Of 1t.
Rankin & johnson, the well-known ship
pers from the new town of Billings, on
the Enid branch of the Rock Island, were
in yesterday with load Of medium hogs,
which sold well.
Mueser Bros, of Arson, comparatively
new shippers to this market, were here
yesterday with car of heavy hogs which
sold for stiff bulk price. They were
pleased with their sale.
Speers & Mclaughlin of Clearwater
were in yesterday with a car of hogs
and cattle. They are regular shippers
here.
Henderson & Co. had in a car Of mixed
hogs yesterday. They arrived too late to
sell on yesterdays market, and their
hogs were yarded over.
Fremont Boyle & Co., Of Kremlin, o.
tt, sold car Of medium weight packers
yesterday for the bulk price. The hogs
arrived the day before too rate for sale
on that days market. Mr.. Boyle is
we'll known here.
Steele & Son were up from Blackwell
yesterday and received the bulk price for
IA car Of medium weight packers. They
are regular and heavy shippers to this
market
The railroads did a small business at the
yards yesterday. The Santa Fe brought
in cars, the Missouri Pacific and the
Rock Island, 4.
The Dold Packing company shipped a
car of hog tongues yesterday to New
York. 1t would take an expert mathema-
tician to figure out just how many hogs
the car represented.
The jobbing business OF the bold pack
ing plant is very heavy. 1T Is excep-
tionally heavy for this time of year, which
is generally the dull period for this bus
mess, as local butchers generally kill a
large number of hogs for local consump-
ton.
Drovers' Telegram: We have been in
vestigating the growth OF alfalfa in east
ern Kansas for more than two years.
We have held as many as five farmers
Institutes in a single county without see
ing one field of alfalfa. We met a far
10, I
county who had never seen an alfalfa
plant growing, and there is comparative
ly little alfalfa grown in the eastern third
of the state. AS alfalfa is absolutely es-
sential to the cheapest production of beef,
pork and milk, and the rapid growth
of yodng farm animals, it is evident that
farmers without 1t are at a great disad-
vantage. Our work in fattening hogs
shows its value. One lot Of hogs were
fed all the grain they would eat, and
another lot all the grain and all the al
falfa hay they would eat. The hogs hav-
ing the alfalfa hay ate more grain and
gained more pounds of pork for each
bushel Of grain consumed, showing a gain
Of 86S pounds Of pork per ton of alfalfa
hay. Hogs on alfalfa pasture showed a
gain of nc pounds per acre Of pasture.
Most trials of alfalfa in eastern Kansas
have been failures, but we have found
alfalfa grown successfully under almost
every condition Of sail to be found in the
eastern part of the state. and we believe
that a large portion of eastern Kansas,
from Nebraska to Indian Territory, Is a
natural alfalfa country. Alfalfa will not
grow on wet land nor where rock comes
near the surface. It is easiest grown
where the subsoil Is rich and porous, but
good crops have been harvested many
years in succession on land underlaid
with as tough and hard subsoils as there
are in the state. A successful alfalfa
grower of wide experience recently said
that any land which will produce good
corn regularly and on which cottonwood
trees do we'll is good alfalfa land. This
is a fairly safe guide.