Show Ir I THE LIVE STOCOIARKEI II Ih I iii I < Cattle Moderate Hogs Heavy j Light on Sheep If I i KANSAS FARMERS EXPORT 1 r SENDING THK1K OWN CATTLE OVER p TO LIVERPOOL I A 3 < A Hip llrcalc In Kceiler Prices Down to Bed Itocl Heavy Cattle Still Unflcr the Hummer Fat Sheep Scarce nt Iu t Per > oiml 3Vote > l The following special live stock ret re-t i port is prepared for The Herald The cattle market continues in a bad way Jf there has been any change f from last week it has been for the worse There j no life at all in the i feeder trade and i closed last week I fully 25 cents lower and has not recovered re-covered any this week Farmers are 1 busy now with harvest I fee har-vest and do not come to market to buy so freely as of late The prospect for a big corn crop in all the corn growing grow-ing districts was never better and no j doubt the feeler trade will soon stiffen stif-fen up Good cattle are scarce HOW and feeders will experience much trouble this fall in finding cattle to eat the surplus corn from last years I crop say nothing of the millions of bushels noW growing with every prospect pros-pect of a larger yield than last year I Prices on American cattle in London I have advanced 3 cent this week but 1 exporters do not 7 el disposed to make any advance lere just yet Some of I the heavy feeders ofEmporia Kan believing that there must be a profit somewhere along the line for fat cattle cat-tle have formed a pool and will export their own cattle to London Thefirst shipment wen out last week and it will be watched very closely by the big four and others with years of experience perience in the trade to see how the Kansas farmer will come out We do not expect that the first shipment will be profitable for the reason that all the dealers in that line will throw every obstacle possible in the way to discourage all such ventures I is quite an undertaking and requires re-quires a big outlay of money to carry out the scheme and to one who has never tried shipping by water many trials and tribulations will surely come with delays and possibly the loss of some of the cattle on account of inexperience in such shipments The I strong prejudice existing against I American meats all over Europe makes it hard for a stranarer to make sales I I n J C Leary ftheUnion Stockyards I I went to Milford Saturday to look after shipments of cattle going north that will stop for feed and branding at the j Union yards The first lot arrived Sunday night and numbers 1000 head with 7000 or 8000 more to follow for the same parties The stockyard office 1 a the appearance of a wholesale hardware store just now being fitted I up with branding irons of every shape from a straight bar down to the letter I Z belonging to ranchmen in Nebraska Nebras-ka Wyoming North Dakota and Montana Mon-tana who will hold their shipments and brand here in the chute invented by the manager W P Noble had in five cars from bs rmch near Iron Pnint Nevada on Tuesday that went to the United States i company I is not necessary to comment I com-ment on these cattle when you know who fed them Mr Noble has paid strict attention to breeding SQod caIvej and fndividual merit with plenty of S good grass and water enables him to turn f nothing but firstclass stuff I which always commands the top of the market 1 Too much care cannot be exercised in selecting bulls for the herd The first point is individual merit then see that th pedigree is of the strongest strong-est and best reproducing female No breeder can afford to use grade bulls when pure brenis can be got at the present low prices Just as good cattle cat-tle can be raised in Utah a old Kentucky Ken-tucky or Missouri if the farmers would only give the matter proper attention No farmer can afford t feed scrub cattle I cat-tle and it takes no more feed for a good well bred Hereford than for a miserable coarse bony Holstein I is I also impossible to grow beef cattle from milk breeds and the farmer who J 4 attempts it will be sadly left I ha I I been tried time and again but the two will not go together The I I breeds are distinct and cannot be successfully crossed While breeding successfuly crose for merit remember that uniform colors col-ors make one of the prime factors I When a uniform bunoh of any breed is offered they always bring a better price than a mixed lot Of late much I Jrlce concern has been manifested among I eastern farmers on account of the well I bred cattle that are coming from the 1 western ranges making such strong competition for the home grown stuff co etton gown I Fr years the range men in many of the western states have continued to buy good purebred bulls of the well known beef breeds at the low nrices that have prevailed for the past ten years till the scrub range steer that used to be so common on the market has become a thing of the past V noted Scotch breeder puts a frozen fact in breeding in r > e following compact and easily remembered form A really good bull will make a herd even from moderate cows whilst an inferior bull will ruin a herd regardless of the high qualities it may contain Durng May at the four leading markets mar-kets 448400 cattle 1195600 hogs and 573100 sheep arainst 393570 cattle 170851 hogs and 456551 sheep in 1ay 1SD5 1SD5Top cattle June 1 ISPS were 545 same day this year 390 Export shipments the last week in May broke all former records the total to-tal beinsr 319 cars Same week last year 195 cars During the first five months of 1896 receipts in the west were as follows 22S2POO Cattle 2039800 hogs 5493100 sheep In 1890 for the same time 1931003 I the tme 1931003 cattle 57S8744 hogs and 1994175 sheep I I Increase in cattle and sheep decrease In hogs June 11895 top hogs were 460 This year 5302 Sheep in 1895 were about the same as now with not so good a demand as at present The dry lot i sheep have been about closed out and mutton eaters will have to depend on gross for the choice chops in the future fu-ture The same condition exists here We are long on mint but short on lambs KHpatrick Bros of Beatrice Neb werf at the yards this week arrang Ine to brand 700 or 800 steers that will be unloaded here on Tuesday en route to Nebraska J S Green of the firm of Green Dodger Bismarck N D was on the yards arranging to brand a big string of cattle today The next shipment will be made at Milford on Sunday A Logan a big cattle man from Bismarck Bis-marck is here looking for steers for his range In North Dakota W C Allyn representing the commission com-mission firm of Wood Bros Omaha and Chicago is In town looking for trade Paul and Robert Brewster of Montana Mon-tana have a large string of steers coming UD from the south in a few days and will stop here for feed and brand Wl N Whitney of Evanston Wyo is at the Cullen E G Reynolds of Wyoming is in the city waiting for six C eight loads of steers that he ha coming up from the southern rangeS range-S S Green ot Schuyler Neb is in town looking for a string of old bulls to take east to graze this summer and put on corn later W B Land of Grand Junction Is here Colorado looking for cattle t take back to Jack Wells now with the Union Pacific Pa-cific went south last night to look after the many shipments to be made this week over his line Jack says he never knew that the Union Pacific was such a good line before Preston Nutter of the Strawberry country is in town from the Dixie district dis-trict where he ha been looking over some down purchase he has been making M 1 Parsons ha gone to Huntington Hunting-ton t receive and deliver a big lot of cattle that he has contracted for B F Sanders went t Milford last night t look after his many herds coming in to be delivered to northern buyers J S Smith had In a drive of cattle < that went to J Marriott The Lehi Feeding company had in a bunch of fat cattle that went to the U S CoW Co-W Fisher came down with some rood beef cows that went to the U S Co CoMarket Market good demand steady good cows 2142 = 4 good steers 33 ½ good sheep 331 good hogs ZViW The efforts of the Australian livestock live-stock dealers t Sip cattle to England have resulted in nothing but loss t < those making the attempts I has frequently been urged that the loss frequenty ben urge on the first few shipments was due to the I improper feeding and attention which the cattle received and that the shippers i ship-pers did not anticipate any profits until un-til the trade should be thoroughly systematized sys-tematized The Queensland GrSzier figuratively throws up the sponge and says the reason for the failure of the attempts is simple the voyage is too long that American cattle after eight or ten days or even twelve days at sea look a bright and fresh as though they had just left English pastures while I Argentine cattle after thirtyfive days I at sea were sore bruised tucked up I and poor Fully two third of the horses recently re-cently imported into England were bought in this country Our export trade has increased materially the last year or two While this is due in part I to the remarkably low prices it is ix > be hoped the favor now shown I American horses will be continued even in the event of an advance The average aver-age value of nearly 10000 horses shipped ship-ped from the United States t the United Kingdom during the first four months Of this year wa 140 That this is 26 less than the average value of Englands purchases a year ago and 40 compared with two years ago I does not necessarily reflect a price decline de-cline of this amount I rather intimates inti-mates that s popular has the American Ameri-can horse become in England that the I foreigners buy not only a few high I priced drivers a in former years but I are also taking hold of the less expensive ex-pensive but thoroughly desirable work other animals purposes for use on tram car lines and |