The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-17
WHEAT FEED PAYS
Anthony Firm Brings Pre-
MUM Hogs TO Market.
GAINED TWELVE POUNDS
Every Week After Being Put
on the Feed.

Burchfeld & Cornell. the popular stock
shippers at Anthony. Kan, are level
headed business men and know a good
thing when they see it. They read the
Eagles advice to farmers not TO run off
their hogs half fat when the drouth scare
came. but to feed them out on the fifty
cent wheat that they were sending 10
market. and they made rice thing by
acting on the suggestion.
This wide-awake firm bought some thin
hogs that the farmers were anxious TO
sell and put them in their feed lots at
Anthony and bought wheat and had it
chopped TO feed the hogs. After feed
ing these hogs six weeks. they sold them
yesterday to the John Cudahy Packing
company, for Sc hundred. The hogs
were the best on the market and the
Cujahy people wanted them to make
their fine brands OF meat. that is becom-
ing so popular on the market, and when
the hogs were priced at 50, # was a go
without any further ceremony.
1t VIII be remembered that the Eagle
published an interview with John Cudahy
about the time the farmers began TO
send their light hogs to market in which
ne took occasion to endorse the position
taken by the Eagle in regard to feeding
wheat. and stated further that he could
not see any cheap hogs in the near fut-
ure. He further stated that the farmer
who would finish his hogs on wheat,
would not only get more than the market
price for his wheat, but he would make
on the present value Of hogs, by getting
q higher price for the original weight of
the hcgs at the time he commenced to
feed them wheat.
Both Of these positions have been
proven correct by the experiment OF the
wide-awake Anthony shippers. They not
only got more than the market price
for the wheat they fed to their hogs,
but they made nice little sum of money
on their original purchase price of the
hogs, by selling for the top Of the mar
ket. Mr.. BIrcaheld cane in charge of
the hogs and he told the market reporter
for the Eagle that he never saw hogs
gain so fast as these hogs did when they
were feasting on chopped Kansas wheat
He said they -.-vn scales and
every Sunday morning weighed their
hogs TO see now much they were gaining
and to his surprise, they kept up an
even increase of twelve pounds to the
hog every week. People generally count
on one pound a day. but these wheat
fed hogs gained an even dozen pounds
for every seven days they were allowed
to feast on that chopped wheat. Mr..
Burchield said the hogs were doing so
nicely that they wanted to feed them
wheat awhile longer, but the buyers here
KEEPS squealing for good hogs until he
finally concluded to bring them in.
When the Anthony men sold their hogs
there was a good deal of talk about feed
ing wheat, and pigs Immediately ad-
vanced IN price. Eldridge & Co., had
bought six shoats nine days before that
nobody else wanted. and put them in
pen and fed them wheat soaked in
water to keep them growing. II was
about feeding time and the pigs were
squealing for their evening meal, when
someone suggested that the pigs be
brought out and weighed. The scales
showed that the six pigs had gained fifty
pounds in nine days. It would be DIM
cult to ten how much they would have
gained if they had been allowed all the
wheat they wanted.
Secretary Blackburn has four acres OF
cane adjoining the yards which he sowed
to feed his horses. and ore Spectator
said last evening he would give him $50
for tho cane. He wanted to buy pigs and
put them in the cane patch and feed
them chopped wheat. but Colonel Black
burn said he lid not want to sell the
sugar cane. Some OF the people would
like to see what the pigs would gain on
chopped wheat, when they had green
cane to mix with the wheat.