Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-05
The Courier's Complete Markets Of the World

to keep UP body heat. replace WORKOUT
tissues, force the blood to circulate
and do other necessary things to main
tain life. thus less Is left to be convert
ed into flesh and fat These are points
Z, worthy Of careful thought on the part
OF the man who is using high-priced
| feed and labor.
Then, too, there is the question OF
! quicker returns on the investment:
, also the fact that less capital Is re-
qulred to produce given amount OF
, beef than in the case of the older cat
| tie The motto OF every good business
| man Is quick returns. They aim to
turn their capital often and thereby
make good MISUNDERSTANDING Farm
ers and Drovers' Journal.
Barter advices concerning wool are
optimistic. Few eastern wool buyers
| attended the Salt Lake City meeting
of the National Wool Growers associa-
| tion. AS one of them expressed It.
they were averse to tipping their
mitt. But the few there admitted the
probability of higher prices and II was
an open secret that orders were plac-
ed in local buyers hand. One buyer
| received commission from Phila-
delphia house that would have caused
a furore recently That the effect Of
/; free trade has been discontinued 10
generally believed. One obstacle to
expectation of American wool exists,
however, and 1t is an apparently In
surmontable one. Until some such
+. system Of grading as Australia has
adopted is pursued in bagging the
American clip, that clip will be con-
| fined to the American market. What
United States wool needs Is standard
ization. To accomplish this the M.
tional Wool Growers association pro-
poses to import Australian shearers
! and graders, take the grading and clas-
styling process away from the grower,
his action In that respect being volun-
! tary OF course. and grade the clip 1t
the soaring pen. Wool thus standard
lied can be sent to London and sold on
the same basis as Australian product.
but meanwhile Its market scope will
| be limited. The new system cannot
be put into effect until shearing time
| in 1915, but that it will be revolution
| airy In effect needs no argument. De
prived of protection the grower Will
make the most Of his remaining Oppor-
tuntes. fNe@
| Clark tastes, back to Chicago from
a Colorado trip, says that recent de-
| clines in the corn market will doubt
J less incline many Colorado lamb feed
ers to hold their stock for better fin
ish than it would have received other
wise and probably result In the lamb
crop from that country being strung on
in such fashion as to prevent gluts
He is expectant, however, of good sup
plies from that source now right along.
A 3O-car train was loaded Monday in
the Fort Collins district, where many
northern-bred lambs are feeding that
must be marketed early to avoid the
attaining Of unpopular weight. He
/ figures northern Colorado's lamb out
put this season will be about zoo. 900
head, of which about 10000 have al
ready been marketed. The San Luis
valley region has already sent large
share of It's holdings to the SHAMELESS
| The Berlin Germany, Clinical Week
lily announces that preparation from
saffron, called tryosafrol, discovered
by Professors l.. Brieger and M.
Krause OF Berlin, has cured practically
every case treated last year OF hOof
land mouth disease in cattle. The dis
covery Is declared to mean the savings
Of millions of dollars, as heretofore
the epidemics Of this disease which
have spread throughout Europe and
America have been stopped only by a
general slaughter Of the animals az
| filicted.
In one herd Of eighty cattle critically
i'll with the hoof and mouth disease all
we're cured in ten days In another
lease herd Of 200 cows began giving
milk again within three days. EN-
periments also indicate that the same
preparation cures the disease result
ing from the bite Of the tsetse ~,
which has been so destructive n
! Africa.
Both Kentucky and Pennsylvania
have been Tree shippers Of winter-fed
cattle recently This movement II
somewhat premature and is furnishing
eastern markets with considerable
beef that usually does not show up IN.
til later in the season. The January
rise in prices was largely responsible,
but the tendency below the Ohio river
is to do more winter feeding in contra.
distinction to roughing cattle through
the winter for summer grazing pur-
poses.