| Show FEW CATTLE SHIPMENTS De Ricalcs Gives His Ideas on the General Market Aboait the only shipments of Utah cattle down on the slate are those to be made by Saunders Tisdale toward to-ward the end of the present week This stock will not > go onto market however but will be fed until spring m Wyoming and North Dakota Mr Saunders went south again yesterday morning for the purpose of receiving the 1000 head of steers just purchased in Miaid county by hrm and will load ait Oasis and Juab Speaking of the livestock market A E dc Rieqlesi yesterday said he could not understand what made the country bullish on cattle There is not the slightest cause for it Prime heavy cattle that usually sell around 7 per hundred aJ Chicago at Christmas time are away down and there is very little demand for them at aH According to Gay Robinsons report the average for the top slteers Xmas beef for the past eleven years at Chicago as 695 This year there are very few cattle that will bring 6 There has been a tremendous tre-mendous increase in the receipts of pork this year over last and at lower prices hard times change people from high priced beef eaters to cheap meat pork consumers and when such people do buy beef they want a cheaper class This has given strength to the market for the more ordinary class of fat cat tie and they have kept up pretty well Western cattle are not brinsrinc vnrv high prices a bunch of good Nevada steers weighing from 1050 to 1100 pounds sold at the Missouri river last Saturday for 330 On an average of 1060 pounds this would leave the owner own-er 27 after paying shipping and other charges Hogs are selling lower and Saiturday were selling at about the lowest prices for 1893 Sheep are showing show-ing a little strength and good choice Utah wethers will sell around 285 per 100 pounds Of course Xmas time is acknowledged to be the worst time to markelt cattle or sheep that are not extra for the great quantities of pou try and game which flood the market at that time cause a decreased demand for dressed meats The Mexican cattle are going to cut a big figure next season sea-son dn the sales of yofang Steers for the range One can buy good yearling for 3 add 20 per cent duty and 2 for freight and our Utah producers will find they have to compete with yearling steers that only cost 560 Md down ini here These Mexican cattle cat-tle when put on a good northern lange as yearlings Come out all right and I would not be a bit surprised ito see a big lot of therm brought into the territory ter-ritory next season When the corn was injured last summer in Kansas Nebraska Ne-braska and other corn states the idea was general that there would be no fed cattle towards the end of the winter With the idea that fed cattle would be high at that time almost anybody that could get a feed lot has taken to feeding feed-Ing wheat barley and other chopped feedsThey They have overt gone so far as io bring up cotton seed meal to Kansas points from Texas The great number of cattle being thus fed the enormous number of cattle being fed this winter in Texas and the hay cattle of the west will I believe keep prices at the normal if not lower throughout the winter and early spring months It is on account of these reasons that I cannot understand the feeling among growers that a period of high prices is soon to prevail 1 think that the best thing that Utah raisers can do is to feed alfalfa to their cattle not so much for big flesh as for good condition for in April and May the Kansas and Ne 3naska feeders will want these cattle to go on grass back there and will pay a good price for a steer in good flesh They want their cattle ait an earlier ear-lier date than we can gather them off the range on account of their being no jrrass to drive en Therefore I would advise feeding just enough to keep up in good condition and not for fat Mr de Ricqles left for Chicago last evening on special business |
