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Show PAGE TWO HP HKD n .WITH THE SUK, PRICE, UTAH EVEEY FRIDAY. PRICES HH( TRUE HOSE Tha fun Special Service. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 19. Conditions today were aixuilar to a week ago wben Chicago had the bulk of the cattle and hogs at the five Western markets and lower prices were reported today. Chicago had half the forty-tw- o thousand cattle and a hundred and r thousand of hogs and the break there spread to other places where receipts were moderate. The decline was small. Some kinds held steady. Hogs were sharply lower and lambs steady with last week's close, Receipts cattle, 18,990 hogs today were and 4000 sheep, compared with 15,000 attle, 15,000 hogs and 0000 sheep a week ago, and 12,999 cattle. 16,600 hogs and 6700 sheep a year ago. trade ia fat steers ojtened slowly with bids fifteen to twenty-fiv- e cents lower. Later when general trade was jinder way prices ruled weak to fifteen cents under last week s high close, although still higher than the low point then. Some choice yearlings sold at $9.25 and lieary alters up to $9.50. Must of the fat steers brought $3.25 to $8.75. Noiua common quality and warmed up ones brought $6.75 to $7 A0. Cows and heifers and calves were steady. Offerings in this line were in smaller supply than usual with choice quality generally lacking. Veal calves continued to. sell readily. Trade in the thin cattle was fairly active at strung prices. A good many feeders sold at $7.75 to $3.40 and good to choice stock-er- a at $7.50 to $8.00. Plainer classes brought $5.75 up. Demand for steers suitable for a short finish or for summer grazing was active. Hog prices today slumped twenty to cents and reached a new thirty-fiv- e low position for the year. Prices at all markets were sharply lower and indi cations are the run late this week will be light and cause a general rally in the market. The top today was $7.95. Hulk $7.70 to $7.90. Packing sows sold at $6.75 to $7.00 and pigs $7.50 to $7.- 85. Prices are generally thirty-fiv- e to fifty centa under the Ligh point last thirty-fou- week Bheep and lamb prices held steady wtth trade active. Moat of the fat lambs sold at $14.25 to $14.75, ewes at $7.00 to $8.20 and wethers at $8.00 to $9.00. The big feeding sections are not marketing fat lambs aa freely aa was expected and current receipts are falling ahort of requirements. Demand for horses and mules was fairly active at steady prices. Receipts were larger than a week ago and indications are that volume of trade will be considerably larger than last week. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE NOW THREATENS COUNTRY ACTTIVE trol Scotland and the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey are the only portions of Europe from which live stock may now be shipped to the United States. But perhaps the greatest danger lies in the presence of the disease in South and Central America and J maica. Constant vigilance is maintained bv the United States department of agriculture to prevent importation of diseased animals or infection. A well organized army of veterinarians and other employes of the department and of state live stock sanitary bodies is ready to take arms against the insidious invader at practically a moment e notice. These men have been experienced in the necessary procedure in event of another outbreak and certain experienced ones have been selected to fill definite assignments in the various phases of the quarantine and eradication work. Within an hour after the disease makes its appearance the newt ran lie telegraphed and the work of comliatting the destroyer will begin at ' once. Mexico, although the disease has not been reported as existing there, is looked uK)n as a convenient bridge between (iiiatamala, a country which has reported the presence of the plague, and onr southwestern border. For that reason a close watch is being kept on live stuck and imports from that country. Although Honduras has not admitted the presence of the disease there, Guatemala considers that country the source of the infection now causing her losses. SKINS OF PREDATORY ANIMALS YIELD REVENUE During the past year an average force of two hundred and sixty-si- x hunters, trapjiers and poisoner was employed under the supervision of the biological survey of the United States department of agriculture and many thousands of stockmen participated in the distribution of poisoned baits during the organized drive against predatory animals. Part of the men employed were paid by the government and nrt by the states and other agencies, which contributed $190,-40- 5 to the work. Hunters are required to turn in as evidence the skins or the sealis of animals killed when found in snitable condition. Such positive evidence was obtained during the year in the rase of 30,986 predatory animals, of which six hundred and eighty-seve- n were large gray wolves, 27,185 coyotes, 2827 bolieats and Canada lynxes, a mountain hundred and seventy-thre- e lions and but a hundred and fourteen bears. Hears are generally regarded as game animali and are protected by some state laws No effort is made to take any except individuals known to be destructive to stock. In eddition to the dead animals secured, it is estimated that not less than fifty thousand coyotes were killed in eonnertion with extended poisoning operations, but the carcasses were not found. The killing of shout eighty thousand predatory animals represents a saving of live stork and game for the year amounting to over $4,000,090. Skins sold during this period yielded $34,202.75, of which $22A5 was derived from those taken during the same year. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. With regular and reserve officers of the disease defense army prepared for any emergency, Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of animal industry, today appealed to everyone interested in live stock production or marketing to report immediately any suspicions of eases of disease among farm animals to prevent introduction of the foot and mouth disease. The live stock industry is constantly menaced by an invasion by the foot and mouth disease, a plaguq with which our producer! and state and federal government have had costly experience on a number of occasions, the department of agriculture declares. This disease, produced by the smallest of genus, is one of the most highly KANSAS FARMER GIVES UNIFORMITY AS ARGUMENT infectious and serious affecting farm animals, Wild w hen inIn connection with its study of the troduced into a country spreads with value of purebred live stock utility great rapidity. It is beyond ioMubility throughout the inqiortant live stock of eradication with the present method 'sections of the the United couutry, moat in Conticountries of employed 'Stales department of agriculture nental Kuroi and England is jitet getreceived interesting comments ting her most recent attack under con .from a fanner in Pottawatomie emin- 1 rlov-enfoot- i y tv, Kan. He has used purebred sires with all classes of animals on his farm for twenty years. This man says that his father before him was an excellent judge of live stock, so that he himself grew up with the idea of better stock. After thirty odd years experience with purebred sires he has found that the offspring is fully 25 per rent better than the average one obtained from the use of grade or scrubs. He attributes this suieriority in the case of beef cattle to the uniform size obtained in the young groVing animals, their better feeding quality, and also to the fact that their uniformity and quality attracts the attention of buyers. This farmer estimates that his purebred horses and jxultry are earning 50 per cent more fur him than his neighbors are with the ue of scrubs. He speaks favorably of the good work being done bv calf dubs and says that he takes pride in inviting high Ichool and vocational agriculture students id see his stock and in getting the boys interested and impressing on their Juiu'ls tlc v.alue of right breeding and right feeeding. Have Everything In Hardware and Home Building Materials . C. Lambs Selling Well & MT. PLEASANT, Feb. 18,-- Culp Sons of Salt Lake (Sty purchased sixteen carloads of spring limbs at twelve LUMBER CO. One Piece Or a Carload or m Price, Utah terest. Weather conditions in the Coal- DENIED RELEASE FROM JAIL! ville region have been a little severe SUPREME COURT Hi during thb week and work has been Frank P. Kelsey of New Hai' hampered to some extent. The Lakeside is rejNirted to have resumed drill- was denied release from the Wade ing in the Rozel district, but the Leo- ton county jail on bail last Mondr'-thnora camp still is idle. state supreme court. Kelsey, if is held pending trial before the li Corn is the most important crop in the United States, both in acreage and Judicial District court on a rharp' in value. The quantity of yield is very first degree murder arising out greatly influenced by the quality of the alleged poisoning of his wife, app' , seed planted, says the United States ed before the Bupreme court last?. department of agriculture. A practical day on a writ of habeas corpus a way to decrease the cost of harvesting ing that his release from the si if it is to be fed to hogs is to let them jail be granted on hia furniiiiig e1 do the harvesting or hogging down reasonable bail lie was remnM " bv turning them into the fields in the the custody of the Washington ewe ,.' fall. sheriff. Kelsey is well known u c hia folks to numerous former renie As a change in program we might of Southern Utah now living it . J make the world safe for civilization. around Price. He has some distant! stives in this seetion of the atata , It needs it. , ' - .. n ax n f f? ?? ?? ?? ?? J. ? ? ? rents and shipping to the Kansas City market .yesterday. Thia shipment eon listed of upward of four thousand and one hundred head of sheep, averaging eighty-sevepounds per head, and relieves the local financial situation considerably. Of this amount six carloads moved from Mt. Pleasant, four from Ephraim and six from Elsinore. F. Nielson of this city sliipiwd three carloads to the Chicago market, averaging the same weight. If this shipment is financially successful, probably another of eight thousand will move for the river or Chicago markets' the coming week, all locally. n Jou-fla- s, forty-seve- clin. Moab sheepmen who have pooled their wool recently are declining offers of forty-tw- o cents for it. Most of them are holding out for forty-fiv- e or Street, Price, Utah R STEVENSON Phones Report reaches Price that Peter who will shear at Thompsons this n spring, has declined an offer of and a half centa for hia wool Bessie Kennedy, Millinery Main We have acquired the habit of satisfying our customers, and you will gladly put the O.K." of quality, accuracy and high service standards on both goods and treatment. superintendent of the agricultural division of the department of vocational education. Ball and Hugh J. Cannon, deputy state dairy and food commissioner, last Friday organized a elub in We Jordan school district. Another is being organized in Alpine. The boys calf elub of Cache county has already Holstein heifers ordered eighty-thre- e which are to be imported from the dairy section of Wisconsin. The plan being followed is to organize the boys and give definite instructions regarding raising dairy rattle. Local banks in most localities are loaning money to 111 26 buy one animal each, Ball says, and also in each locality a fund is being raised to pay prize winners in annual exhibits. This plan will be the means of placing on Utah farms purebred UTAH REFINING IS STILL GOING stock that will form the foundation for AHEAD AT FARNHAM better dairy animals, officers of the department say. Oliver J. Grimes, special writer for Salt Lakes Tribune on oil matters, in Issued. Ia Warning The foot and mouth diseuse is in last Sundays issue says the Utah Oil company lost a sand pump danger of being brought into this coun- Refining on recently top of the baler, but last inforfrom to Mexico, according try mation received last Monday liy Dr. F. week drilled up the two to within E. Murray, in charge of the Salt Lake about twelve feet of the bottom of the hole. The bore has now been enlarged City office of the United States bu- to carry a casing eight inches to the reau of animal industry. Recently a hunsame depth about twenty-nin- e D. from stated C., Washington, report most dred feet. the difficult Probably that the disease had been observed in Central America and that on account part of drilling up the lost equipment of its contugious nature would in all is yet to be accomplished. The Farn-hawell of the Utah ia some ten miles probability spread north to Mexico. to the north and east of Price. ContinThis latest information indicated that the danger is imminent, according to uing: The Ohio is reported to have Dr. Murray, and the government is almost completed its ng in the CoalPemaking every effort to prevent it from ville district. The Western Empire coming into the United States. Border troleum reports that a hole is being states are being watched for the first made, but without developments of in signs of the disease, officials say, and the government is ready to put a large number of trained inspectors in the field on short notice. Stockmen are being asked to advise the Zion office of any symptoms. . 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. rmmnr.. Making the Home Beautiful Clubs Now Importing. Prospects are good that at least three hundred purebred dairy calves will be imported into Utah through boy calf clubs now being organized in the various counties, according to I. B. Ball, WITH THE LIVE STOCKMEN OF EASTERN UTAH Advance Showing In Spring Millinery tbipay, better. Cisco's wool clip this spring is estimated at a hundred and twenty-fiv- e thousand pounds. That of the Moab pool is estimated at about seventy-fiv- e thousand. Prices ranging from sixty-fir- e to a hundred and seventy-fiv- e dollars were paid for bulls and heifers less than a year old at the Cache county dairy sale at Logan last Saturday. Jim Crystal, an American Fork sheepman whose flocks range in the Basin country, saya nearly all of the woolmen out that way have sold their fleeces at forty-thre-e to forty-si- x rents a Miund. Many sheep up and down the Duchesne river are being fed1 because of the cold and heavy snows. Hay is cost ing from five to six dollars in the stark. It may go to ten before shearing time. Grand and Ban Juan county sheepmen are lieing offered ten and a half rents for their lambs delivered at the railroad. There seems to lie little disposition among growers to contract at this time. Contracts were closed at Moab last week whereby about a dozen cattlemen agree to deliver to Salt Lake City huv-er- s a thousand head of steers this spring. The prices are $27.50 for yeararid is lings, 3G.OO for ds (Continued on Page Four.) t vt f? ? t? tt ? f? ?? ? t f k JZ ?f ?? t? t tf ?f t X Theres No Investment C-- i So Absolutely Certain.... . John Jacob Astor came to New York and bought real estate. His property has been a geyser spouting profit ever since. Eighty per cent of the great fortunes of this country were made in real estate. Price is Just think of the great value of property you know personally and its value ten years ago! It has been an oil well for profits. We can serve you now. We can help you to this kind of profit and all the time you own the property. You are protected. Ninety feet frontage by thirteen and a half rods in depth. Adjoins the Silvagni building at Price on the south and faces South Eighth street. Will dispose of as a whole or cut to lots of thirty feet frontage. Part cash and terms. R. W. CROCKETT AGENT PRICE, UTAH V frvVVVVVVVVV ' - VS? i 'S i 1 |