Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-19
.SANPET STOCkMAN
SAYS ALL PROSPER.
Open Range Has Been So Good All
Summer That Growers Arc All
Feeling Happy.
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So fSpecinl sGprrespondence.@ RI
Kansas City Stock Yards, Aug 16---.
The fall movement of cattle to mar
lset is expanding toward its culmina-
ton which will come in September.
and the market is slightly lower than
a week ago. The run &of %. 900 mead
here today, including 1900 calves, pre-
sages another heavy week. and prices
are weak to 10 lower today. although
with good life to$the trade. The outlet
for killing cattle is better than q short
time ago. but stocker and feeder trade
lis suffering temporarily on account of
dry hot weather In some! sections, winch,
Threatens crop prospects. Rains are
promised from Washington for the dry
sections the middle of this week, which
will be OF great benefit TO the market.
Arrivals include a fair number of cat
tie from the panhandle country, cows
at $3.1O to $3.50, stockers $3.50 to $3.50,
calves 81 to 81. Calves are 20 to 90
cents higher than q week ago. "A train
of Colorados from Grand Junction was
here last week, beef steers at S4.40 and
$780, feeders 81 to s4.25, cows S3455 to
1885, none of this shipment above me-
#diurn class orf1esh. Good weight KAN
8sas grass steers are selling at IS to-
S6.25, similar to steers now coming out
of northern Colorado to market. Sixty
per cent of the quarantine cattle have
been marketed for this season. and $un-s
less favorable market conditions con-
tinue, a good share of the balance will
be held and fed through the winter.
which means that receipts OF cattle at
II he markets will so adjust themselves
this fall as to insure fairly good prices
all fall.
Sheep and lambs are coming pretty
freely, and prices are holding up good.
Lambs sold firm all of last week, and
y, iy,y,,6 la,
from Utah, was here today. The lot
today was lighter than those last week,
65 pounds, but the excellent price re-
Sceived then, $3.50, was duplicated to-
day. the wethers and yearlings includ-
ed today at s5.25. Ewes are selling up
TO IS, and breeding ewes above this
figure when sufficiently desirable. feed
s4.35 to $4.75, goats at $3.50 to killers.
and So for the country. Arizona con-
5tinues shipping pretty freely, lambs
lately up to $780, medium class NUT.
tons $3.50.
F. r. Lamb of Mt. Pleasant. Utah.
who marketed yesterday a carload Of
Angora goats. is authority for the
statement that sheepmen. and farmers
az well. in Sanpete county, are pros
porous and happy this season. 1Itshas
been q year of plenty, said Mr. Lamb.
Tho open range was so good allfslm-
mer that thousands of sheep and goats
have been getting fat on the range OUT
side of the government reserves. Sheep
and goats form a large part of the rev.
enue of that county. Dry farming and
irrigation farming down in the valleys
are carried on quite extensively. This
has been an extra good year for both.
the dryffarmers raising very good crops
In most places. Then the range feed
has been very abundant. Wool prices
last spring added to the income from
sheep and goats. AS high as Coo a
pound for nlohair was paid, which is
perhaps close to$a record price. Our
goats clip around pounds on the best.
Cur worst enemies to the goats are
the wild cats. Wolves seldom give us
very much trouble But the wild cats
lay in wait for them. and usually get
in position where they can drop down
on the goat. These cats grow to an
enormous size. killed one last spring !
that probably weighed close to so
pounds, In handling goats we find that
they do better when allowed to go
about as they please rather than to
force them to go where the herds
man wants them. They are Just little
harder to drive about than sheep. II
trailed about by the herdsman they
give little trouble. They are fully as
many sheen and goats In the country
as year ago"