The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-05

person at the yards with his first con-
signment Of hogs. They averaged me-
dunn heavy and sold at once at strong
bulk price.
The daily comparisons were as follows:
Yesterday, tops, s52212; bulk OF sales,
/ s.. 10Q5. %; average weight, "a; receipts
125L For the same day last week, tops
$3.50; bulk, S5.171zQ5. D; average weight,
! 228; receipts, 40
The bulk of the car sales yesterday
were made at the $50 point, nine out
i Of the fourteen cars selling at this point.
This shows a close range in the biddlng
! for hogs and a suggestive point Ior ali
/ shippers to consider.
Norris & Yazel, one of the pioneer Ship
| ping firms to this market, were late ar
rivals last night with a car load OF very
good hogs They viii sell this morning
on the early market
Scharbam & AycOck were shippers OF
as fine a car load Of regis cred Hereford
cattle as ever yarded at the yards. They
were consigned TO Midland, Kansas, for
breeding purposes, and attracted the at
tention Of all the stoclunen at the yards
COnnors & Humphrey, Of Kingnsher
/ were on the market with car load OF
stock cattle, ana they sold at strong top
/ prices.
John siceioR, Of 1Iulvane, was ship
/ per of hogs on the early market
The several Id44IDdl5 DA44lS-4lS IL SAAC
stock were as foloks: Santa Fe, 9;
Rock Island, z Missouri Pacific, 2, and
Frisco. z.
The DoId shipments yesterday, for
/ a Monday, were unexpectedly heavy.
There were several cars Of mixed pack
ing house products sent out from the
wholesale department, and the shipments
from the contract division were also
heavy. All departments reported an IN
2 "a M
( from the start very heavy spring trade
in all departments OF the Dold plant
throughout the entire southwest, butch
ers and mercantile concerns dealing IN
fresh and cured meats have long ago
learned that the consuming trade de-
mand the Wichita product Of the Dold
meats. There is a certain standard or
merit involved in the brand, Made In
wichita" and the further stamping Of
! eff It's Dold's. It's The Best" have
made Of the Dold Wichita plant house
hold phrase. This accounts for the heavy
trade in the DCld specialties of late and
the mid-winter demand for their special
cuts has far exceeded all their plans
and the expectations Of packers every
! where.
The Cincinnati Price Current says:
/ ''The western packing was $4,000 hogs
AGAINST 625.G)0 the preceding week and
the winter season from November ID
/ March /, is 9,2500o0, against $4,000 last
year
/ one Of the largest and most successful
/ swine breeders in the west and one who
is credited with maintaining one Of the
/ largest herds OF thoroughbred hogs IN
I the United States, recently stated to ne
/ writer that he had never been troubled
/ with the hog cholera during all MS flr-
-ffa them.
This man says farmer are too apt to
4 charge every ailment of the hog 70 the
cholera. He believes cleanliness IS the
/ one great factor in sustaining the health
Of q swine herd Men will not provide
good and comfortable quarters for their
hogs" said he. They allow them to
lay under a shed where the dust is sew
eral inches deep. A hogs nOstrils are
right down in the dust, and he lies
there for hours every day breathing his
lungs full of dirt In d short time q
cough saizes him and he begins to hump
up his back and refuse to eat. Fever
sets in and in his weakened condition
every disease his flesh is heir to attack
him He dies, and the farmer calls L
cholera. The way to prevent such at
lacks is to have the sleDing quarters Of
the hogs noored. The floor should Be
high enough from the ground to allow
q. passage Of air under it and insure dry
ness. A small amount Of bedding should
be placed on the floor and this should be
changed frequently. I shelter my hogs
fn this manner and have never been both
cred with any kind Of disease" We viii
guess Lnere are about 70 hog-raisers out
OF every hundred that could profit by
caring for their hogs in this manner
Too many farmers think anything is good
enough for a hog, and as a result thy
never have very many at q time. Where
a little herd IS accumulated it is soon
diminished in about the manner as above
/ described.
The demand for hogs at the Wichita
market was never so keen and active
as right now. There are three represen-
tative buying firms every day on the
market whose combined purchasing ca
pacitv is far above the receipts now
coming in There is no packing concern
! I'm the country today stronger than ay-
one Of the three firms now on the open
market here for hogs, namely, The
] Jacob Dold Packing company, the Ar
m3ur Packing company, Of Kansas City
and The John Cudahy Packing company
] These concerns are almost unlimited IN
their buying capacity, and the past week
is a fair suggestion of what might be
me standing RUE an the time. Hogs
have sold within 1915 cents of Kansas
CITY. and never over IS cents. There
is a strong competition for all hogs that
may come in. and shippers from the
whole Of Oklahoma and all this south
ern end of Kansas can not possibly bet
ter themselves by consigning their hogs
/ elsewhere. A careful study of the com
! narrative markets wiz show this and
more hogs are wanted, and more hogs
viii heceive a welcome and the best
prices that can be paid anywhere viii be
promptly paid for them. All the old
time shippers know this and are doub-
ling their shipments as fast as they can
get the hogs To those who have not
Vet tried this market, a cordial invf alton
is extended 10 make an experimental
/ shipment ort two. Not one alone. for It
/ is always possible to strike an unfavora-
bile market anywhere But few sue
+ cesslve shipments here Will convince any
sDeculator that, all things considered.
there is no better market to ship hogs
to than the Wichita market.
Average weight of hogs at Kansas city
in February of this year was 2I) pnnds,
the largest since last July. and pounds
Hebter than Februay of 1900. In the
last ten days Of the month the average
was 81 pounds.
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