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Show f THE 8 UK, FRICE, UTAHEVERY FRIDAY. FACE TWO TRADE IH SHfIPAND LAMBS WEAK WITH PRICES Ml MIM CENTS . The Sun Special Sen-leeV A VS AS CITY, Mo., Feb. 12. Chicago today with 23t(XR) cattle, 77,000 and 22,000 sheep was tlie factor that made lor lower live block prices at all market, llere prices for cattle afforded for sales is held accountable for the uniform desire on the part of W etern stockmen to participate in the lt)23 event as exhibitors. Another encouraging evidence of the widespread interest taken is seen in the support being tendered in advance by educational institutions of the iniermouu-lai- u section. Many have written dein claring their desire to general success of the event aud in par eral success of the event and in particular in rendering any educational advantages at their disposal. Following is a copy of a letter received last week from Elmer George Peterson, president of the I'tah Agricultural col- were steady to fifteen cents lower. Mot of the good quality cattle were Steady und medium to common classes showed the decline, liogs were ten to fifteen cents lower. Top lfti.10. Lambs cents lower. In weak to twenty-fir- e Chicago the hogs declined twenty-fiv- e cents, the result of the heavy run there. 0 Receipts today were 15,001) cattle, hogs and 0000 sheep as eouqiared With 12,000 cattle, 22, IHRi hugs ana 0000 sheep a weelt ago, and 13,450 cattle, 17,0u0 hogs and j OuO sheep a year ago. lege at Logan. "1 have noted with interest the anWhile trade in cattle ojiened slowly, nouncement of the Sixth Annual the dominating feature in the dullness Live Mock show. Pemut me e thuusund tweuly-llirecattle in being to proller the fullest from Chicago ana lower prices there, the market here was nearly steady in the tUe Utah Agricultural college m this average. Some of the plainer classes statebuiidnig enterprise, 'lne 15,-00- Inter-mounta- Inter-numuta- of fat steers and the better grades of heavy steers were ten to fifteen cents lower. The others which made up the bulk of the offerings were luily steady. Uood to choice steers sold at $0.75 to $0.50, medium to good $i.75 to $5.05. borne boulh Texas steers sold at $5.00 to $0.50. Cows und heifers were steady ami in fairly active demand. Choice heilcrs and mixed yearlings were in vesl calves were moderate supply, steady. Top $U.IX). With holdings in traders hands cleared up closely last week there was good buying uf stock-er- a aud feeders on that account. There were also a good many outside orders for fleshy feeders and good Stockers. Prices ruled higher than last weeks close and about the same as a week - ago. Chicago had 77,000 hogs out of 139,-00- 0 received at the five Western markets today, and with sharp declines there buyers here were able to force moderate concessions. Jlud the supply been more evenly distributed the imce level would not have been disturbed. Mere the decline was ten to fifteen cents. Tup $b.iU aud bulk of sales at $.& to $d.uo. Packing sows sold at $U.i to $1.00 and pigs $)2i0 to $.&. Trade in sheep and Jambs was quiet with prices weax to lweuty-l'i- e cunts lower. Most of the decline was in 1st lambs. Heavy lambs sold at $13.40 to $13.05, mcdiumweigbt $13.75 to $1410 and light weights $i4.1u to $14.3o. The feeding lambs sold up to $14.3u. Trade in horses remained very quiet. Mules showed belter tone than at the opening last week. STOCKMEN SHOW KEEN INTEREST IN BIO EVENT With many stockgniwera of the territory, Nebraska, Colorado and the Northwestern States having already signified their intentions of making entries Of purebred cattle, beep and hogs in the Sixth Annum Intermountain Live Stock show at Balt Lke City in April, next, officials are encouraged in the belief that the forthcoming event will eclipse all others in the number and quality of stock exhibited. At committee meetings held last week letters were read from many prominent live stockmen signifying their desire to be present with their Tcry best individual, herd and group entries. The fact that the premium list hows bigger awards than at any previous exhibit and the facilities to be in in test, of which Utah is the center, must become if it reaches its full promise one of the most productive live stock areas on earth. It has every advantage for a very large aud s a very production. Stock shows are mdispeusible in furthering this dev elopuieut. The breeders must have frequent opjmrtuiiity to exhibit and to exchange. It requires no great foresight to predict great things for the snow. Ur. K. K. Mead, show manager and to wnoiu President Peterson wrote, has been advised by other educational institution beads in Utah aud Idaho in particular ox their intentions to do everything Kissible to provide educational facilities in the way of instructors aud live stork exjierts to make addresses and tie in attendance to give everyone interested the benefit ox their various departments an individual knowledge in live slockgmwmg, care ot animats, breeding, etc. Murdy Uowuufg, promoter of athletic events, is already at Work m making the preliminary arrangements tor entertaining tne visitors und exhibiturs. fie promises the best entertainment earn ever oifered at a extern live stock snow, ball Lake City Chamber of Commerce uificmis and live slock committeemen are also preparing tne preliminary pifcus fur ciub entertainment to be provided during the week of .April 2d to i Ui. hunJ here still remains twenty-fiv- e dred dollars l be subscribed to complete the twelve Thousand dollars budget originally fixed aa the amount to coiiuuci the affair successfully. Finance committeemen will make an intensive drive next week to complete the budget. ingh-cia- nec-tssa- iy MEXICAN WOLVES CONSIDERED UNDESIRABLE ALIENS The establishment of the bureau of biological survey, United States department of agriculture, of definite organisations in the Western States upon which live stock owners call for assistance in esse of serious depredations by wolves, coyotes and other animals and through which definite information is available for campaigns, is now steadily reducing losses from predatory animals which in 1915 were estimated at $20,000,1)00 annually. These organizations in the grazing states of the West and also in Michigan, work with atate departments in of agriculture, live stock FRIDAY, FEBRUARY lg, TE3 v induce tl.e sows to take exercise daily, a great necessity for breeding. bows must be well fed to raise good pigs, but this does not include the day cuuiiuiMiuua, stockmen s associations and individuals to clear out predatory animals lrurn great units of grazing land. Poisoning ojieratious Lave been conducted on au unprecedented scale during the past befure and the day after farrowing. hours beiore and alFor twenty-fou- r sow should have no tke ter farrowing year. Trained hunters have also been sta- ' feed, but tepid water should be contioned along pases leading across the stantly given in small quantities at Mexican border to capture promptly first ana then gradually increased to animals fr!l feed within ten days. siiy wolves or other predatory Even before the pigs are weaned they Arrangements this country. entering have been made with stockmen in Nor- - should have access to shelled corn in as a supplement to the them Mexico for the maintenance of with milk from their mothers. As soon as hunters who work in the federal and state lurces of the, they are weaned they should be kept or United States along the international on full feed either on border. A constantly recurring inva- - by hand. liga that are well fed and sion of wolves from Mexico into New have enough exercise will reach marMexico and Arizona is thus being sue- - ket weights at about eight months of ; Thirty sere re-- , age. cessfully controlled. and! border the rently destroyed along without allowing a single one to drift MEANS SAVING OF MONEY TO THE PRODUCES miles into the more than twenty-fiv- e which United Mates only one of CHICAGO, Ills., Feb. 12. A rate back into Mexico. war among stockyards commission men Similar concerted action along adja- was forecast today with the announcecent state borders is very effective in ment the by progressive Live Stock destroying wide ranging auimals like Commission company of a 40 per cent wolves. There bus been very satisfac- reduction in charges for handling eat-tl- e with other federal tory aud hogs in carload lots. The reagencies in this work, including the duction takes effect immediately. A forest service and the office uf Indian to the fanner and live stock affairs aud the national park service saving of from $300,000 to $400,000 producer of the interior department. a year will be effected if the reduction becomes general. The exchange has HORSES AND had a committee considering a reducMORE MULES ARE NEEDED tion for several weeks, but it is said Meat which you buy does not originate the matter has been buried in the comThe United States department uf ag- mittee and is not likely to be reported in the packing houses. riculture culls attention to the fact back fur action. Behind the packing houses and the that there is.a market lor Before and during the war a carwelibred horses and mules. The small load of hogs worth $3500 was Bold lor stock yards are the millions of acres of underdeveloped animal of jioor quality twelve dollars, says John Burke of land devoted to the raising of live stock is always a drug on the market, but the Progressive, composed of veteran and food for this live stock. the offspring of good brood mures and dealers at the yards. The present bred to purebred sires of the right price of hogs is about 33 3 per cent .y ' How live stock reaches the market; type, if proerly develujied and broken of their wartime value, but the comis handled it how to harness, nearly always find a ready missions on a carload now worth $1300 how it is purchased; jn market. Figures based on the 192U are sixteen and eighteen dollars. Cominto meat; and how transformation its census show that about two hundred missions selling cattle show the same this highly perishable product gets into thousand fewer colls were produced in glaring increases. the United Btates in 1JlD than were the hands of retailers in every city and Another charge we have decided to needed to supply replacements of the eliminate is the two dollars a car for Hi village, make an interesting story. horses aud mules on farms alone. Also prorating, made when two or more con; s'.?, also furabout two hundred and twenty-fiv- e The handling of signors have live stock in the same car. thousand highelass lior.es are wanted Under the old rates an extra ehaige of facts. Vi nishes some interesting for annual replacements in cities, mak- two dollars was made for dividing the Hides, for example, are not bought by ing a shortage uf more than four hun- proceeds of the sale among the con- dred thousand horses and mules pro- signors. ' the ultimate consumer. duced in the United Btates in 1919, beOrdered to Suspend. low tlie nuwlier needed for replacing Glue is used by manufacturers of losses. WASHINGTON, D. C.( Feb. 1L many articles. The dejiartiuenl recommends that all All Western transcontinental railroads I 'I farmers produce replacements enough, were ordered today by the interstate k Wool is of little use to the wearer of in connect ion with general farming, to commerce commission to susiend until clothes until it is worked up into merlie able to sell utf the older wurk ani- June 10th increases in ireight rates on I chantable articles. Pamals each year. The market demands wool und mohair moving iroin the well broken and truined hor.es thut cific Coast to the eastern half of the Just how Swift & Company handles will last a long period of years. There- United Mates. The new schedules were is meats mid their attendant fore, if the colls am broken at about to have become effective yesterday. three years of age and used on the Preliminary healings on them will betold in the new farm a few years, these young horses gin March 2Uth at Portland, Ore. Untogether witn the breeding stock will der the schedule proposed f reight rates be increasing in sale value, llorsea on sacked wool from Pacific Coast reach their maximum value at about six ports to Chicago and Boston would be Swift&Companjl 923YearBook A copy is yonra fot tha asking. years of age, aud the surplus animals $2.7(1 er hundred pounds as against sliould be sold at this time. Welibred present rates of $1.95. There would be Address: Swift ft Company, Public Rriadona Dept horses aud mules that have been prop- slight reductions from Rocky MounU. & Yards, Chicago erly fed and broken are usually salable tain territory to the East. I 'rum Ueno at a profitable figure and should in- to Chicago tne present rate is $2.72 a crease the income of the general hundred, while tne new schedules would make it $1170. From Ueno to Boston v the rate is $2.76 and the new rate s. A. SANFETE STUFF BRINGS BEST would be $2.70. OF PRICES AT ZION aatioB-wida A orgaaisatioo ewad by Cattle Fool Sella. SjOQO ihawhnMava Lawrence Lowry and Andrew Miller MOAB, Feb. 12. The Indian Creek were on the Balt Lake City market cattle pool last week sold two thouslast Saturday with five cars of prime and head of yearling heifers and steers fat steers fattened on their randies in to U. H. Allen of Hotchkiss, Colo. The the Kingdom of Sanpete. Millers cattle sold are equally divided into the v V" heavy load of prime ones averaging two classes, and, white no figures were close to twelve hundred pounds top- giveu, it is understood they brought dollars a head for ped the market at $7.50, while tne aruund twenty-fiv- e lighter ones brought $7.25. The latter the lot. Allen, while here, offered went a shade over a thousand pounds. $25.50 a head for yearling steers to Nowhere is there a greater need for this section the relatively dense pop : Lowry sold his top at $7.25 straight several Moab cattlemen, but the offer in lation, the enormous industrial demar - : and two other loads at $(iB5. This was was declined. The cattle purchased of knowledge of timbergrowing than for timber and the large areas of laat j' their first visit to the market at North the Indian Creek pool will be deliver- the Eastern States, says the United best fitted for forests all unite to mf Salt Lake. - Both expressed themselves ed at Thumiisuns, April 15th and June States department of agriculture. In timber production on a large scale. 3: as more than pleased with their treat- 1st. Those being fed now are to be dement and witn prices received, which livered first with the range stock follatter were considerably more than lowing on the later date. . 1L Street those which the' could have sold fur at and Olliet Patterson bought a hundred home. Both Miller and Lowry are offi- anil twenty head'of weaner calves from cers uf the Sancte County Farm bu- A. I). Mulyoak at tweuty dollars a head reau, as well as members ol their live straight, i'he calves were delivered at stock marketing association. They are once and they will he taken to South carrying the word back to others there. Mesa lor spring feeding and then sold. They also expressed a keen interest in the coming sixth annual live stock WITH THE LIVE STOCKMEN OF EASTERN UTAH show, to be held April 2d to 7th, inclusive, and promised to see that Sanpete is well represented. Tuesday last a delegation of stockAnother sluiqier to the Zion diarket men representing the Mate Morse and the same day was P. G. Gates of Mutch-kis- Catllegrowers association and private Colo., one of the biggest live stock interests met with members of the owners and ranchers of that section. state board of equalization to urge Me had a carload of choice Hampshire that body to establish an average ashogs. Gates has lieen a consistent ship- sessment of twenty dollars per head on per to the Balt Lake City market since range cattle. The board, which had esSeptember last, when he came over timated the average value at around with eight carlonda of beef cattle. This twenty-twdollars, took the matter ungood shades to use is his fifth tripi Me states that West- der advisement. The committee conI ern Colorado, aa a whole, is very much sisted of W. J. Creer and Benjamin the walls on room that interested in the market in Utah, and Evans from Spanish Fork, James L. I to make bright while this year some five hundred car- Wrathall from Grantsville, James Mcyou A loads of stock from that section were Pherson of Green River, Thomas RedfuL woodwork is oak, your fight the and of be will next about mond, secretary association, handled, year there perhaps afitdetan or brown trimming would three times that number. Gates is in- J. A. Scorup, who has interests down terested in the coming stock show and in Grand and San Juan counties. go wdQ here and there. promises to come over with some of his Records of the bureau of animal inI choice fat hogs, as well as bringing his dustry show early iu 1923 a total of McPbee & McGIontty choice breeding herd of Hauqisiiires. Ullti live stock owners enrolled in the !Vil camBetter Bires Better Block KEEP FIGS GROWING TO MAKE paign conducted by various states and Cold Water Wall Coating the national department of agriculture THEM PROFITABLE i I'. i j . j self-feede- rs j self-feede- rs , j j j i . ed It Starts There HIGH-CLAS- S high-clas- s, 1-- X. A . , by-produ- cts U v V by-produ- ... . t Swift & Company, u. ' - i I s, CREAM o arid very light of a want If and cheer ) Advance Showing InSpring Millinery We are receiving this week an advance showing of spring millinery that is up to the minute in styles and looks. It is not too early to be thinking of spring hats. Come and look them over, whether you want to buy or not. Bessie Kennedy, Millinery Main Utah Street, Price, ? Cos U-KA- ri . The profitable pig, (Continued on Page Four.) says the Unit- ed States department of agriculture, IT MUST BE MADE is the one that never tuis growing from the time it is farrowed up to the James 1L Anderson, collector of intime it is haul til to market. Ihe wise ternal revenue for the District Utah, liograiscr stimulate!, growth in the pig issued a warning last Saturday against before the litter is i arrowed hv keep- .taking too literally the announcement ing the sow in gMd condition, it is as- made from Washington, 1). ('., that insumed that the sire and the dam are of come taxes for corinirations would be the right type, big and growthy. Pas- postponed until June 5th. Tentative returage uf paid quality, shorts or mid- turns must lie made not later than on dlings, lish meal or tankage to furnish ; March 15th, regardless of this order, protein with sufficient corn or barley to escape the 25 per cent penalty, and to keep them in fair flesh, make up a a fourth of the tax amount must be list of desirable feeds for all breeding paid. Form No. 1120 for corporation hogs. Alfalfa, soy bean or clover hay income tax returns have been received are valuable additions for winter feed- at all Utah offices and are now ready ing and may be scattered out ao aa to for distribution. tt . ! comes in any shade you want (color cards to select from) and all you have to do is to mix it with cold water and apply. There's little work to it and die cos of die material is almost nothing but the effects you get are great. STEVENSON LUMBER CO. One Piece Or a Carload Phones 111 or 26, Price, Utah. ssassr .1 51 |