The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1901-10-31
Kansas City Stock Report.
Kansas City Stock Yards.
October %, 1901

Kansas City Stock Yards.
October %, 1901
During the past week the great
American Royal cattle show and sale
has been in progress and both as a
display Of Hereford, Shorthorn and
Galloway royalty and an attraction
to visitors has far surpassed any pre-
vious event of the kind ever attemt-
ed. The weather has been ideal, and
with the perfectly appointed barns.
show tent and sale pavilion there
was nothing to mar the success OF
the undertaking or retard the execu-
tion Of the program. From mid
forenoon until dusk the 3OOX125 feet
show tent, the two and a quarter
acre barn, the pavilion with a capac-
ity for housing 200 cattle and con-
taining an ampitheatre with seats
for 5000 people, and the streets ada
cent were filled with mass of NOV
ing people who inspected everything
from the obscure nurse-cows to the
ribbon bedecked winners of many
prizes.
The top price at the ShOrthOrn sale
was $lS50.00 for Ingle wood, two
year-old Cruikshank bull, and the
average price paid for II ShorthOrn
bulls was $477.91. Thirty-eight
Shorthorn cows sold at an average
Of $292.36 and the general average for
the so head of Shorthorns was $33S. 80
or, $1,000 higher than last year.
There was 135 Herefords offered at
the sale. the general average having
been $253.25. The females numbered
~ head and averaged $257.55, while
the ~ bulls which made up the re-
mainder of the offerings realized
$?44.O6 each. The Hereford averages
fell below the last years mark but
this was due to the fact that the se
lectiOns for the sale were made more
with view to giving the average
cattle breeder and farmer something
that will increase the value of his
herd than with the idea OF an ex-
change OF blood between the thor
oughbred producers. The highest
price Hereford bull sold was South
ington Ill, ,703 OF the X. B. Armour
estate herd, and the top price for u
Hereford COW was $4,000 for Pits
burg Maid 97,o45. Southington
brought $1O05.O0, and was taken by
VIM. Humphrey, Of Ashland, Nebras.
ka, while Pltsburg Maid went to
Marshall Field, OF Chicago. In the
Galloway sale, % bulls averaged
$l44.08 and 10 females went at $117 81
or at an average Of $1S4.14 for the %
head offered. Some of the Galloways
were in good show condition and
Imported Wolfel, a prize winning
aged bull, brought 100000 but as n
rule the Galloways were not at their
best, the bulk Of the offerings consist
Ing OF only fairly pedigreed stock and
not in good flesh. The top price on
Galloway females was $4,000 for
Lady Of the Lake and calf.
The dressed beef cattle market dur
ing the past week reached about as
high point as has been touched
this year. The top beeves brought
$50 and the demand was so great
that one packing establishment
brought a train OF 16 cars, from Chi
cago towards the last Of the week.
There was heavy run Of range cows
and values settled slightly, ruling
probably 10 to 900 below the bulk OF
the week before. The decline on de-
sirable feeders was checked but the
common stockers and feeders Of infe.
rior quality were slow and lower.
Southern receipts amounted to
about 5000 cattle and 1900 calves and
consisted largely OF very common
cows many OF which sold under 200.
The better grades Of Southern cows
brought 2.25 to 200 and q few scat.
terIng sales oiprime fed cows sold at
400 to s.7a. Steer qualities were
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