The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-09

and closed at 1902 Cash lard opened
at $3.50 and closed at $5.S2 Cash ribs
opened at $3.50 and closed at S. S. May
pork opened at $10.S IS and closed at SIC. 3d.
May lard opened at $5.92 and closed at
$40, while May ribs opened at s5.72 and
closed at $5.7
The Dold Packing company did a good
business yesterday. The export shipping
business was heavy and the meat hand
lers had busy time all day. The express
business was quite heavy and the job
bling business was good for a Monday
The jobbing business is increasing daily
and this month promises to far surpass
the sales of January a year ago, which
was an exceptionally heavy month. All
departments Of the plant are showing a
hattering growth, which is pleasing to
the management.
The business of the sausage and spe-
cialty departments at Dold's packing
plant is something phenomenal. The
forces are compelled to work overtime
nearly every day. The most popular spe-
cialties made are homeless pigs feet,
tripe, Rathman pressed ham, Dewey ham
sausage. Yorkshire Farm sausage, Ber-
liner bologna and picked tongue The
pressed pigs feet is having the largest
sale of any speciality ever produced by
perienced in supplying the demand for It,
Experiments which have been made in
the past have shown that the best ration
which can be fed to growing pigs is
plenty Of skim-milk, together with grain
ration composed of one-third shorts or
ground peas or oats, and the balance
cornmeal, with room for plenty tof eXer-
else and a clover pasture 10 feed on, says
the Farmers Tribune. The skim-mik
and clover is not always to be had but
there is no reason why the corn ration
cannot be supplemented with some one
,of the three grains above mentioned, and
no man can afford to raise hogs if he
confines them to a pen. In the expert
ment described above the hogs were got
ten ready for market without being at
tackled with disease. but it has been
shown by many experiments, and by care
full observation by breeders, that the corn
fed hog is not a healthy, vigorous animal.
That he is much more likely to be
troubled with worms, cholera or swine
plague, and that the percentage of loss
is much greater than among hogs fed on
a variety which supplies the elements to
build UP the system.
A bulletin Issued by the Wisconsin ex-
pertinent station tells of the test recent
~ made there on rape as hog food: To
divided into two lots Of 10 each. One lot
was fed upon grain (corn and shorts and
the other lot upon grain and in addition
allowed them to run in a field Of rape.
Both lots were given all the food they
could eat. The hogs which had rape were
started lightly on grain so they would
become accustomed to eating the rape.
They had no other pasture but were
given small piece of fresh rape every
third day. The aim was to feed both
lots literally. The corn was soaked for
a hours, while the shorts were fed in the
form of Stops. The first test lasted IS
days and the hogs used were grade Po-
land Chinas. The lot given rape ate 1856
pounds of corn, $50 pounds OF shorts and
rape from one-third of an acre, and made
a gain of $50 pounds. The other lot ate
2,G96 pounds of corn and 1,042 pounds of
shorts and made gain of S57 pounds
The granted lot gained pounds more
than those given rape, but ate 10 pounds
more of corn and $50 pounds more of
shorts. The third of an acre of rape
then was equal to 1,106 pounds of grain.