The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-05-16
Live Stock Items.

Live Stock Items.
According to recent market quota
tions good mich COWS are worth in
Chicago $4,000 to $4,000, and choice to
extra mixers $42.50 to $4,000. Fancy
stock is still higher.
The total hog receipts for the first
10 days of January, 1901, at eleven
markets, viz, Chicago, Kansas City,
Omaha, st. Louis, Sioux City, st.
Joseph, st. Paul, Indianapolis, Cleve-
land, Buffalo and Pittsburg were l.
$4,000.
Stocker and feeder men say the big
food of common and habitat beef
steers at western markets has weak
ened the demand for the big, coarse
cattle, but that the demandfor choice
900 to 1,OOO-pound feeders is as urgent
as ever. =
A stockman who has realized large
profits from shipments he has made
of cattle to the Klondike miners Is
about to stock a ranch on one or the
Aleutian Islands. If this experiment
is a success he will probably accumu-
late more gold than the majority OF
miners.
Between January 1 and January l6
IA, 200 car loads of live stock were re-
ceived at the Chicago Stock Yards, be-
ing a little over 100 more cars thar
arrived the corresponding period OF
1900. The increase was altogether In
cattle, 10th hogs and sheep showing
a falling off compared with a year ago.
Hog receipts at the Chicago yards
for the week ending January 19 wero
considerably lighter than the week
previous, or 169,87S, against 219,96S
the week before and 183, $50 the cor
responding week in 1900. Prices, how
ever, averaged higher by 10 cents h a
during the week ending January IL
and IS cents to Is cents higher than a
year ago..
Long tails on horses promise to be-
come the fashion. New York dealers
say there is more inquiry for long
tailed horses than there has been for
two years and that some of the high
est-priced horses sold this winter have
rejoiced in long tails. 1t is to be hoped
that the sentiment will grow among
the smart set" as docking is a cruel
institution.
At a recent meeting of live stock
breeders in Austin, Texas, it was de"
cided to urge the passage of a law to
increase the functions of the state san
itary commission to the end that bet
ter protection of the live stock indus
try against contagious or infectious
diseases may be had. The proposed
measure will include as a feature the
apportionment OF a veterinarian by
the commission.
John Sparks, of Reno, New, recent
" sold to M. K. Parsons, OF Salt Lake
his entire output of steers and heifers
for the year 1900, estimated at 1860
head. The price is supposed to be
about SIS per head. 1t was a year ago
this week at the convention of the Ma"
tional Live Stock Association, held In
Fort Worth that John Sparks sold
II 600 Nevada cattle to NJ. X. Parsons
over $500, 900 being involved in the
deal.
The restrictions on the Importation
of live stock from Great Britain were
relaxed by the Irish board Of agricul-
ture december L, LSOU' AACoO lO0IAAS-
tions were imposed when the outbreak
of foot and mouth disease occurred In
Norfolk. According to the order "cat-
tie. sheep, goats and other ruminant
animals, and swine" are to be admitted
into ireland from British ports if &C.
companied by a permit" There is
no exception to this rule, and it Is a
very peculiar one, namely, the per
mit~ is to be dispensed with in the
case of sheep imported from Scot
land. and shipped at Scotch ports"
During the past season, from the
nort of Montreal, 92,172 cattle (inclnd-
ire 5,677 American cattle in bond)
were exported, an increase OF 1858,
5 compared with 1899. Average cost In
| this country. $50 per head; total value.
81 $50, 800; ocean carriage, $1S per
5 head; railway, $3.25. Sheep-Total K
l norts, 34,S3S, a decrease of 23.439, COM
nared with 1899, but prices were 20
per cent better. Value, SIS per head;
ocean freight, $1.25 per head; insur'
ance, rs cents. Including expenses, the
4 grand total of this seasons trade wa
a 81, 1873, 149, or an increase of S1,l46,1SE
compared With a year ago.