Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-12
1t is the unanimous report os sh

1T is the unanimous report os ship
pers TO the Chicago market that choice
draft horses are very scarce III the
country, says the Drovers' Journal.
The trend of events for the past decade
has induced the present condition. The
low prices of 1890 to 1896. when even.
good horses sold for less than the cost
of production, and when only prime ar
rivals would sell at any price, an era
| when common horses We're cheaper
than corn, and in some instances We're
purchased and slaughtered for food for
| hogs. farmers We're compelled, in order
to reduce their stock, to sell the best
4 animals on the farm. There We're no
| reservations and frequently the mag
| nificent mares We're sold to shippers
/ which should have been retained for
| the harem. There was no anticipation
/ for the future, but a supreme, stimuli
I taneous effort among breeders 10 un-
load their surplus at any price. The
1 prophets predicted the horseless age at
hand and there We're no provisions
made for the future industry. Foreign
scustomers sampled American bred
horses and pronounced them tn peer
of European bred animals. The domes-
tic surplus found an ample outlet in
/ foreign consumers. The suspension of
breeding operations and the enormous
4 export movement have reduced the
! present supply to the point of shortage.
/ The demand for prime heavy drafters
4 is of larger volume than the supply and
/ the opportunity is suspicious for breed
1 ers 10 again revive the industry. All the
4 best mares on the farm should be stint
Il nl,o so
as the present outlook indicates a
1 shortage of fine draft horses for many
wears to come 1t is a branch Of live
stock husbandry promising as liberal
3 profits as any agricultural industry and
the farmer who breeds his best mares
A TO the best sires is sure of liberal re-
4 enumeration.
i Local Markets..
The following prices quoted are as
4 nearly correct as 1t is possible to OBJ
4 tain from the dealers themselves. The
4 quotations are for prices paid by deal
4 ers, corrected Wednesday afternoon:
GRAIN AND FEED
The Kansas City Grain Company re-
ports the following prices:
4 Oats-1S
4 Corn-32.
CORN.
d The Glucose Sugar Refining Com.
pany will pay So cents for corn.
LIVE STOCK
Receipts today, 237.
4 Britain g. Co. are paying the follow.
& ing prices for hogs in wagon load lots:
Selected light, 140 to 200 pounds, 4.SO
8 Selected heavy, over 200 pounds, 4.SO
stays and piggy sows graded accord
ling to quality after reduction. Rougl
!, includes thin ola sows. milky BELLE.
and hogs unfit Tor packing Premium
s. lhogs must be smooth and fairly vel
fatted.
An nogs subject to government in
= PROVISIONS.
Marshalltown grocers quote the fol
flowing prices for country produce:
New potatoes-25 cents.
Eggs-14 cents
h Butter-20 cents in trade.
POULTRY
Z Butchers. commission and cold stor
age houses are paying the following
cash prices:
Eggs-i3 cents, loss off.
old chickens cents.
Young chickens-612 cents.
HIDES, TALLoW AND WOOL
III. Willard. son & Co. are paying tn
= following prices:
No. L green hides cents.
No. 9 green hides cents.
Pets 4OGiT5 cents.
Horse hides-1. 10000.