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Show Friday, PAGE TWO apb i UBS QUOTED TWENTY-FIV- E UP; SHEEP STEADY AT RIVER MARKET The Sira Sptclil Servlc. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 8. Trade in fat rattle wait fairly aetive today at steady price. At the outitet there wax some weakneit in western steers, hut thin on diHappared and the offerinjss were rivalled up ehmely. Stocker and feeders gold readily at firm price and thin tended to create a good tone to the general market, llog price were steady with Friday and only alightly lower than the extreme high point of the pant two week. Luinbs advanced twenty-fiv- e cent and sheep were ateady. Sheep receipt are falling ahort of a year Receipt today were 20,000 rattle, 7000 hogs and 0000 ahaept compared with 17,000 cattle, 6(NK) hogs and 8000 sheep last week and 21,350 cattle, 6000 hog and 10,200 aheep a year ago. ago. Fat cattle were quoted fully ateady. Only a small per cent of the offerings showed any material amount of dry feed and practically none of theae graded better than choice. Sale ranged up to $13.50 for weighty steers and $13.25 for lighter weight. The bulk of the supply waa graasfata from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Trade in these oiened slowly, but later they sold readily and fully steady with last week's close. Sales ranged from $0.75 to $10.50. The plain kinds sold from $8.25 down. Wintered Kansas steers brought $10.50 to $1L75. Cows anil heifers were fully steady, except the cannon and eutten and they verr cents lower. The ateady to twenty-fiv- e medium quality cows at $0.00 to $0.50 predominated. Fed heifers were srarce and nothing with prime finish was shown. Grass heifers sold nt $7.00 to $0.00. Bulls were fifteen to twenty-fiv- e lower and calves steady, except heavyweights which were off fifty. Demand fur atockrrs and feeders was aetive at strong prices. Receipts were larger than on preceding Mindnys, but they were short of a year ago. Indications are that receipts will remain moderate and prices are expected to hold firm. llog prices opened steady and closed stronger, wt showing a moderate advance. Demand waa more urgent than for several days past and on that basis it looks like general advance will he made this week. Receipts will remain light for ho next thirty days. The 140 to grades brought 230-poun- d Until that time comes, however, it evident that the West should work toward a rate readjustment which will be practical and equitable to every state and bear in mind that the greatest benefit will he aecompliabel by giving the larger number of producers access to the largest number of markets. There appears to be a lack of realisation of the importance of Stocker ami feeder rates to and from central markets located in the West It has been pointed out that the Lvlk of this movement is from the producing sections directly to the feed lots. This, no doubt, is the case, but the fact should not he lost sight of that the small- producer is not situated so as to go directly to the range atat a and make stocker and feeder purchases. He is in the position of either purchasing through a central market or -maining out of the business. For this reason, for the sake of the email producer who is becoming sueh a factor through the cutting up of large land areas, it would seem that a careful consideration should lie given to the stocker and feeder rate question as applying to central live stock markets. Everyone seem convinced that the hearings are being carried out along constructive and intelligent lines and that when all of the facts are collected and analysed that the entire live stock producing West should beiefit - ONE GOOD DAIRY BULL KILLED EVERY EIGHT MINUTES It is fortunate for the dairy industry that good bulls are sent to the butcher along with the medieore and scrubs when their service is no longer needed in the herd. A careful estimate, says Dr. J. C. McDowell of the federal bureau of dairy ' industry, shows that really dairy bulls are going to the butcher at the rate of one eveiy eight minutea from daylight to dark every day in the year. How to stop this great slaughter and keep these bulls for a lifetime service is one of the great problems in - dairying today. A study of eoyr testing association higli-ela- ss records shows which are good bulls and which the inferior ones. But, unfortunately, by the time these records arc availablemost of these hulls have been slaughtered. Doctor McDowell says that it is of little use to learn how good a hull was after he is dead, so he is urging that some system of exchange be .started at once among owners of well-bre- d bulls in order that such animals may be kept until the daughters have demonstrated their sire's true value. $10.30 to $10.00 ; 230 to 200 pounds $0.75 to $10.30; 200 to 325 pound $8.75 to $9.75; packing sows and stags $7.00 to $7.75, and stock hogs and pigs $0.00 to $10.00. launb prices were quoted up twenty-five cents. Early last week the market sagged some, but since then all the loss was regained and quotations are back to the high point. To- LIVE STOCK MEN PLAN TO ATTEND EPHRAIM MEETING day western lambs brought $13.75 to $14.00; natives $12 50 to $13JS0, yearLive stock men from various parts lings $10.00, and ewes $3.06 to $6.60. of the state are planning to attend the JNo wethers arrived. third biennial field day at the Great Basin near EphLIVE STOCK BATE HEARING AT raim onexperiment station August 16th and 17th, it has LOS ANGELES CLOSED been announced. The event will begin 8:30 oclock on the morning of the at The hearing eonducted in Los An- 16th with the departure for a trip ovgeles, Cala., by representative of the er the range and to the station where interstate eommerre commission for the demonstrations are to be made. the pnrpuM of collecting data in the Results of many years of research ami readjustment of live stock rates has experimentation, will be discussed and closed. Many interesting features exhibited during the trip. Among the were brought out. All of those consubjects will be methods of range use with nected the program evidenced a that will improve and maintain the sincere desire to gather and present capacity of rangos, improvedata that would be of benefit in ar- rarrying ment by artificial reseeding and the riving at conclusions based upon eco- relation of grazing to watershed pronomic faets, tending to give the great- tection and their importance in susest relief and most practical readjust- tained range live stock production. ment to the transportation situation as it relates to Western agriculture DEMAND IS GOOD FOR MUTTON and the live stock industry. AND ALSO WOOL - The movement of stock and other The lamb crop of 1927 is indicated products from the producing area to the metropolitan renters on the Pa- as a little smaller than that of 1926 cific Coast, as wll as to Eastern mar- by the lamb survey of the United kets, is a question which occupies a States department of agriculture, acmost important place in the economic cording to the latest compilations destructure of the West. California has tailed in the July sheep and woo outa different cattle situation than pre- look,' issued last Saturday by .George vails in other territories. At this time A. Scott, regional live stock statistiproduction, is nioro or less seasonal, cian for Utah at Salt Lake City. The with ovrrsupplies appearing dunn--th- numlicr of native lambs is much largrange months, and the importation er this year than last, but the increase of cattle from surrounding states liv- in natives was not enough to offset a ing necessary during other mouths of decrease of 1,300,000 head in western the year. With the advent of better lambs. In spite of an increase of more balanced production and distribution than 600,000 head in breeding ewes i,i this seasonal supply will be leveled m. the western area over last yrsr, a dethat it will move throughout the year, crease in lambs marked per hunlrcd thiq being accomplished by the West- ewes from 87.6 to 78.9 resulted in an ern trend toward feed lot operations. 8 per cent decrease in lambs. This de- - . Wa will send is your i ' home. clothes at the Does it sound tosi .he true doth And w damp-drie- d mm time? Now w on, M deep to iron out. Dojs5 week's washing pm NEW EASY, F&KiA 2 I I. A. trial will coaviadJ !? Convenient, ments can he amagtf L. Frank Woodruff, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (left), and Edward Rogal, a former Tech instructor, are shown making final tests on a new electrical control machine which will do the work of GO per cent of the clerks, auditors and messengers now employed in department' stores and factories. was mostly in the late lambing CREDITS BLOCK SIGNALS WITH crease areas, the largest decrease being . in PREVENTING ACCIDENT At J. M. GAUCHAT I. C. Weeter Lumber West Co., Mainl PRICE, UTAH . Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. The new block signal system of the The lamb crop in California, Arizona and Texas was laigrr this year than Denver and Rio Grande Western rail-roa- l, Your spinster always Sometime after a girl hn fished ewstly as it inav seem, came near last. tvgj Consumer demand for dressed kind1 laying for itself Thursday night in or a man and landed him she doesnt nose at a woman who has ka cd. during the first half of 1927, as indi- proventing what might liavj been a know how to get him off the honk. cated by retail prices reported by the terrible wreck of passenger train Vo. No man is entitled tomtit Those who say that life i a burden 1, near DcRrqiic, it liecame known bureau of labor statistics and the ipg good if he is nut teaptil movement of lainb and mutton last night, says Sunday's Grand Junc- always make others tired. into distributive channels, conlin'icd tion Sentinel. The block signal sysBorne family skeletons It is easier to make a new gunrrel euh at nbiiut the same high level that pre- tem hail been in sendee just ten days than old one. in a closet. an iatch to up 1926. of the in and when 1925 it prevented vailed wrecking of 3 jier rent in total dressed weight this train. As the train wa .secedin' of inspected slaughter ami 1.8 pvr along as usual the engineer suddenly cent in ap;arent consumption during found the signal light against him the first five months of 1927 cniiiiur-e-d and he brought the train to a stop. with the corresponding period of Trainmen were sent on ahead an.! dislast year was accompanied by a a in- covered a broken rail. Had the train crease of 2.5 per rent in average cost luissed over this broker, rail jt high of sheep and lambs to packers and speed a wreck would hare been utmost about the same increase in tii) retail certain. Even if this train had gone over it without mishap some other prices of lamb. Although the world production of would have been wrecked. wool has been on the increase for the This is only one of two instances past five years, the rate of increase where the new signals have preiented has been small and not much ereater probable smashui between Palina.le than the growth of population in the anil Fifle, where the signal are now consuming countries. Pro- in use. On the other occasion a small princil duction in the United States of fleece slide had covered the track, shorting wool is estimated at 272,000,000 the circnit and throwing block s.g-na-ls which is than for 1927, pounds higher at on either side of for any year sinre 1911 anil 4.4 per the slide.stop position eent greater, than for 1926. ConsumpWith a season of many rniii and tion of combing and elotfiing wool for railroad is bringing oilier slides, the first five months of this year was sectionsthe of the signal system into use 18 per cent and 13 per eent greater, as as possible. Eighty-tw- o respectively, than for the same per- milerapidly of the line ia now protnctcd by iod in 1926 and 1925. Imports were and the distance will lie in44 jier eent less than for the same signals creased to a hundred and four within time last year and of for- a few when another section, exeign wool have been mnch above last tendingdays to Grizzly, beyond Glmwood year. (Stock of foreign wool in the Springs, will be cut in. The ent:re diBoston district on June 30th were less vision from Grand Junction to Min-tur- n than half as great as a year ago, am! will have block signal protection . t total stocks in the hands of reporting a dealers and manufacturer on March sometime in October. expect good averafr 31st were much below normal of miles from a tankful of SumGASSER IGNITES NEAR CISCO; TWO MEN BURNED mer Conoco Gasoline. Expect more. UTAH LAMB SHIPMENTS TO BE LIGHTER THIS YEAR Don Welmer and Roy Penney from And you won't be disappointed 1 Sum- -. Grand Junction, Colo.', employes of mer Conoco is especially refined to give Due to the fact that the spring lamb the Crystal Carbon at Cisco, crop was smaller last spring than us- were badly burned company you mileage to cut down your cost per at one of the big ual, lamb shipments from this terri- pas. wells there when a snark Saturday trip to deliver real power under all tory will be lighter this year. Juve from the they were driving ignitstock in general is looking excellent, ed the carfrom motoring conditions. the well They had gas according to J. R. Mahon, general taken a load of tool to the site Their So why not use the extra miles that are live stock agent for the Denver and ear became stalled within s few feet Rio Grand Western railroad Malum packed into Summer Conoco Gasoline? is in Salt Lake City making a survey of the well and in attempting to start it created a in the they car. apark of conditions. Just make sure you are -- getting by This spark ignited the heavy flow of from the well which waj running gas filling only where you see the Conoco Yesterday's Quotations. Willi Instantly the atmosphere surKANSAS CITY. Mo., Aug. 11. service stations and garages. sign rounding the well became a mas of llog Receipts, 6000 head and un- flame. The men fortunately had preseven; finished hogs, 200 pounds and ence of mind enough to shut tlteir down, fairlv active, steady to strong; mouths, hold their hands over their CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY others slow, weak to ten cents lower noses and run. frtAum, Stfintn and Mdrfatsi than.Wednctulay'a average; stock pigs Their faces aril hand sen severesteady; top, $10.15 on 160 to 180 ly burned, but doctors believe tlint pounds; hulk desirable 150 to 200 they will recover without . in. The IHiunds $10.20 to $10.45; 210 to $240 left arm of Penney was Tatlier serpound $9.25 to $10.10; lightlights iously burned. They weio taken to mostly $10.15 to $10.40; (tacking sows hospital at Grand Junction and theira $6.90 to $7.25; stock pigs $9.00 to wive accompanied them. $10.50. 6000 Lambs head. Sheep Receipts, strong to fifteen cents higher; sheep and lightweight feeders firm; top of steady; Colorado range lambs $14.00; lightweight steer $12.75; no strictly others $13.85 and $13.90; native $13.-4- choice native offered ; medium gra $8.2o to $10.00; a few common mostly $13.00 to $13.25; Colorado ewe $6.25 to $0.60, grosser $7.75 to $8.00; top veals AM -Cattle Receipts, 4000 head. Calve, 00; weighty calve, $10.50 and down. 800. Native fed steer and yearlings Since prohibition came it ha been very scarce, fully steady; all western grosser fairly active, strong to fif- harder to find something on which teen higher; fat she stock and bulls to lay men downfall and yet they steady; all eutters strong; vealers and are downfalling about as often as calves strong to fifty higher; stocker nt sines DONT it at Tacked 0; THE JUDGE HELP WANTED. |