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Show CHICAGO MARKET kotwithstand ng the dull times all over the world tho Union stock yards at Chicago appear to have done a rush ing bus nes for sixteen m llion animals to be used for food were sold for some thing like $100 000 000 spot cash during the year A long t me ago before the great weel was very well settled Cin cinnati used to be known aB Pork opolis be ng the chief live stock mar ket at that t mo More hogs are mar keted in Chicago m one week nowadays than the Cine nnati people handled m a year so tremendously has the industry grown Grain receipts in Chicago were much largei th s year than in 1913 although for a time there was a deficiency of 40 per cent II gh pr ces due to the war m Europe caused tho farmers to part w th the r surpl s wheat as soon as the thrash ng machines got through with it The rece pts up to date" th s year were 1 601 cars as against 204 9"4 cars n 1913 Bumper crops of wheat were ra Bed m both years but the crop of 1914 was the larger by far Chicago as a gra n and live stock market has no equal n the world. There are several larger ut es but nons of them commands such an extensive agri cultural and stock raising country Russia has a last expanse of territory and is sometimes referred to as tU j granary of tho world. It also wca millions of cattle It has no central market city like Ch cago however Tsis t all in all the Union stoci yatdi j and the packing ho ses are 6ometliuig to be proud of and no one will blame the Chicago citizens if they bbast jost 1 1 ttle as thev watch the grab and steel , J trains roll in |