Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-08-12 | Page 4 | Unsettled Cattle Conditions

UNSETTLED CATTLE CONDITIONS. Th abnormal rushing of live stock to market dining tho 1901 dtnuth has rnusel a tremendous shortage Tor exnniple, tho Kansas City lecelpts for the first week In July, 1H01, were GC.GOO cattle, ngnlnst 33,100 the enr before and 31 000 tho present yonr. Receipts of hogs fnr the samn week nrc ns follows. fol-lows. I'JOO, M.OOO, 1101, 12SD00, U02, 40,-000. 40,-000. It Is estimated thnt there Is n shortage this year of over a million , bead In the cnttle feeding States of Illinois, Il-linois, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska nnd Missouri from the full J car of 1300. The supply will probably mme fiom lanilnrs of tho Southwest an 1 Northwest. North-west. Against the S.OOO.fiOO head, enrllni;i nnd over, of Texas, the Northwest has about 1.0MOOO nf liner blood nnd smaller bone, nnd tiles' w lit command big prices from the feeders of the Middle Mid-dle West, who will srnnely see another an-other opoprtunllj to huj good je.ir-llngs je.ir-llngs fnr n song nnd sell them nfter ii tvvelvu months' feeding nt the top of u ten years' market.