Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-10-28
CATTLE MARKET A MARVEL
LORD HEREsFoRo VISITS KANSAS
CITY STOCK YARDS.
The English Admiral AstOnlshed at
4 Ingenuity and Rapldlty Of Buy
ere and Cleanliness Of
Surroundings.

81 visited the greatest cattle market
IN the world to-day-your Kansas City
stock yards" said Admiral Charles
Beresford OF the British navy at the
to say that its reputation has been just
ly earned. Several thousand head OF my
cattle have been sold through the Kansas
City yards and have been well salts
fed with the returns;
1.-THE market is the greatest In the
world In more ways than one. My agents
sold a bunch Of 1000 head c9 cattle on
my Mexico ranch here last week, ana
when ! received an invitation Saturday
to visit the yards and watch the unload
the invitation.
II was told that there was a great deal
Of dirt about the yards, but was agree
ably surprised. In fact, / could not Tor
the world see how the employees there
managed to keep things so clean and
''The system Of handling cattle as they
are unloaded from the cars, penncd. sold.
weighed and started for the killing
benches, Is simply marvellous. l noticed
particularly the convenience with which
everything Is arranged. Every gate and
every pen seems to be time saver.
eat first glance the handling OF the
cattle from the cars to the packer or g
the reloading pens seems to be In the
nature Of an unbroken line. 1t Is hard
to believe that no confusion results in the
handling OF these immense numbers OF
cattle daily.
Work Of the Buyers.
1.-THE work probably OF the buyers was
most interesting to me. / watched sew
eral OF them closely as they would ex-
anime load Of steers and stepping
around among them poke them in the
ribs and in the loins with their heavy
canes, then emerge from the pens and
Enake the owner an offer for the lot.
These buyers, l understand, are so
well trained In their work that they can
tell In an instant by the general appear
ance Of the cattle just what they are
worth and can estimate the loss % the
packer or butcher In killing them. In
England the work Of these men would be
considered as positively marvellous. or
course over there we have no such mar
kets as you have here. The beeves there
are heavier than the ordinary run here.
II did not visit the packing houses here
a. visited the big ones in Chicago, but
understand that they are all practically
alike. There is q vast difference how
the facility with which the cattle are
handled here has many advantages over
the Chicago yards.
Competition Explained.
England and Europe get the most OF
the better grades OF beef killed here, ]
understand" continued the admiral. 1.-THE
reason for this is that the cattle raised
over there are fatter and heavier and
grade higher than the average American
beef. To compete with the English
raised beef. the American packer has to
send over the best meat that he can Sc
cure. There Is a big demand for the
American meat and the American packer
10 supplying 1t nicely"
Admiral Beresford, with his attorney,
departed last evening for New York City.
He has to be In England by October u.
He expressed great regret that he could
not remain over to see the p. o. p. fes-
tivitieg, but declared that he was highly
pleased with his visit to Kansas City
and that he expected to make his next
stay here much longer.-Kansas City
journal