Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-03
BUYING FEEDERS.
a Consequence of the Big Corn Crop.
Ideas For the Inexperienced.

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Ideas For the inexperienced,
On account of the bountiful corn crop
and also the paying prices of the last
year for fatted cattle many farmers
will rushyinto the feeding business this
year on q scale that will not be 8war
ranted either by their experience as
feeders no by the amountSof feeding
crops that they have on hand, suggests
The Prairie Farmer in preface to a
caution on this point.
The first mistake inexperienced feed.
ers are apt to make is in paying too
high a price for feeders. While it is
advisable in all cases to secure the best
steers, quality considered, that the
market affords, vet there is q limit
which cannot be passed with safety,
especially when a fair market price
can be had for the corn crop. great
many feeders last year madesup their
minds that they would feed cattle at
all hazards. and they went into the
market paying ~exorbitant prices for
their feeding stock, with the logicalSre-
suit that when selling time came
around their fatted steers brought but
q little more than they had paid five
months previous for their young feed
ers. This experience will not be
enough to teach them a lesson. Many
of these same feeders will go into the
market again this year md pay higher
prices for their young stock irrespective
OF what the selling price will be next
spring when they come to put the stock
on the market. Another thing which
should receive more attention than Is
usually givenit when buying feeders Is
the quality OF the steers. A lack Of
quality In the breeding of a young
steer can never be made good no mat
ter how careful the feeding operation
lis carried on and no matter how well
the steer is finished. and IL high prices
are warranted In any case for young
stock it should be for young steers Of
exceptional merit In breeding and fat
tening qualities.
We most certainly would advise any
farmer who is not a good Judge OF
feeding steers to secure mi neighbor
who IS and permit him to select his
young stock for him. Any o who
has taken the pains to analyze the
markets during the past six months
will have seen that there has constant
" been a difference of from 10 cents
to $50 per hundred on different quail
ities of stock and on punches OF cattle
which come from the same neighbor-
hood. and the inexperienced farmer or
feeder often wonders why his cattle
which have been in the feed lot for five
or six months do not sell as near the
top OF the market price$as those OF his
neighbor. The whole secret, IL we may
call # by this term, lies in the quality
OF the cattle. There is no such thing
as fooltng the buyers Of fatted cattle
In the Chicago markets. When cattle
are offered for sale on these markets,
they pass under the inspection OF ex-
perienced eyes that can tell at glance
the exact quality and finish Of each and
every animal In the lot. These things
should be taken into careful considera-
ton when any farmer makes up his
mind to buy g lot OF feeding cattle.
ONE Thing and Another.
The condition Of sorghum, according
to official returns for Aug. +. Is Ia the
main favorable. Kansas being the only
state IN which the condition falls be.
low that Of Aug. |. 1890. Of the mean
Of the average Of the last ten years.
Seattle IS to hare d worlds fair ID
1904 In celebration OF the formal &c,
QUESTION Of the Pacific northwest.
The condition of barley on Aug. i Ii
reported 1871 points below the mean oi
the August averages il the last ter
years. The conditions In the principal
states are as follows: California, 10;
Iowa, 81; Minnesota. GO; Wisconsin
10: North Dakota. "a; South Dakota,
80 Kansas 10; New York. 80.
An estimate Of the rice acreage ID
eastern Texas this year places It a
10000 acres.
Secretary Coburn estimates the Kan,
sas wheat crop at 79.00O.000 bushels
Farmers are not holding II. and 1t iii re-
ported that Iii a single month 100000
bushels were disposed of.