The Chanute times., 1910-03-25
Market Report.

Tue ComDinaJlon uf a larger demand
for cattle, and reduced supply last
week, gave the market good push
upward, aud closing prices were 35 to
g. cents higher on steers for the week,
ard 20 to 30 cents higher on butcher
grades and stOckers and feeders. The
market is $l.5o higher than first Of
February and 81 co higher than year
ago. To-day the run ID $4,000 head,
aud the market is steady to 10 lower.
Some Of the Ishmael heifers were here
to-day from Kiowa, Kansas, at $40,
and some steers In the same shipment
sold at the top. 1915. Steers sell at
S7.l0 to $7.S5, nothing below Sc so
that has any finish at all, and hardly
aHy sales as low as 5000. Fancy cows
sell up to 81 90, bulk OF cows and
heifers at $4.5 so TO $3.50. Heifers,that
would have gone as stock heifers 8
year ago sold to killers to-day at S5 so,
and few very thin helfers out of
this lot sold to a country buyerat $i.T0.
Bulls being e4.75 to $625, aud top
veals so 25. Sixty cars of quarantine
cattle are here to-day, mainly steers
at Sc 65 to 81 go, and including one lot
Of bulls at SIS IS. Hay fed steers from
the mountains sold at s625 to $40
to-day, iDclHdiDg big string Of
Colorado feeders at S6 2S, to $40 lbs,
and another string OF heavier feeders
at S6 60. Stock steers range from
s4. so to 1925.
Hogs made net gain Of 36 cents
last week, closing the week at about
the best point reached, after some
reverses Wednesday and Thursday.
The slim supply Of 0,0o0 head arrived
last week, and the run to- day Is 5000
head. While the general sentiment
is bulllsh, prices have reached point
whero bear maneuvers sometimes win,
as they did to day, prices 10 lever, top
80 65, bulk 5000 to SO go. Great
isterest 10 taken 10 the pig crop now
being farrowed, and 1t 10 conceded
that extraordinary care will be given
the now crop. and larger psrssntage
saved than usual, because It 10 more
worth saving than heretofore. On
the other hana, many youag sows
we're bred last fall, which might re-
duce the average number 10 the litters.
Sheep and LAMBS advanced so to IS
cents last week, and the market is
firm to-dsy, receipts 10000 head.
Lambs made q new high market
to-day, At 9Io rs, aad ewes reached
sS.10 to-day. Ysarlings are worth up
to 80 40. and old wsthers 1925. A
big band of spring lambs sold last
week at $3.50, and the mothers OF
the lambs brought s7.75. Spring
lambs sold at $500 today, fat goats
at $3.50, brushers at "a SO. Receipts
here show an increase over last year
since January 1st, but at the COM
bined markets there is a shortage Of
ntns percent.
"Oats are all In, and farmers are
now busy preparing for the planting
of Germ, which 10 the next crop to be
put H." said @. M. Stroud Of More
head, Kas. "It looks as though more
oats went in than usual, aad there is
q probability that the acrease of
corn will DO Increased. The ground
Is working we'll and things are look
ing very bright through Neosho
We generally begin 30 plant
corn down there about the middle of
April. In that country we have
been raising considerable fax. Far
ners find that IL is a good crop with
which to rotate, and change the land
/ have been raising 1T, and
Ike 1t very much. l am feeding a
string of cattle now that are eating
lax straw for roughLess and do not
know Of a rough feed that is better.
1t has some quality about it that
makes cattle look well and do well.
ad the cattle like it, They prefer
lax straw to most any other rough
feed, In raising flax the farmer
changes the land around. The old
ways of raising corn and then seeding
the land down for awhile ls not the
very best way to keep it up. The
greater the variety Of crops raised on
the farm, the better will be the soil.
The average Kansas farmer has no
toubt discovered that we must rotate
crops, and raise greater variety OF
leeds and in that way we will find
that our farms will hold up in fertil-
Ity. When good farm becomes
worn out, 1t requires some time to
build IL up, but If it is kept up it
needs no building up. Farm lands
are becoming too valuable to be wern
out aud wasted now. Phere is no
grain or other crop now that doesn't