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Show GOATS TO BE A DAILY EXPORT TO KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY. Mo, April 9 Daily telegraph l( quotations on goats have been ordered from here by the government, gov-ernment, owing to the greatjy increased in-creased importance of this branch of the livestock industry' It is estimated that the Kansas City market, the larg est in America and perhaps the larg est in the world, will be receiving 8000 goats daily by May 1 The goat tasfe3 much the same a6 'mutton, dealers said in discussing disposition dis-position of goats sold on this market "A goat's reward for being fat and (healthy is to become mutton, and a kid jthat goes to a packing house mipht he j consoled with the knowlndge. that his epitaph on the menu will read lamb,'" jaaid one big dealer. He added that packers are required by the government ,to distinjruish between be-tween sheep and goats in transaction jwith dressed meat retailors, but that the retailers are not required to so In form consumers The increasing magnitude of th go;ii market may be somewhat attrib Utable to the fart that goats are quoted usually at ?2 to $2.50 a hundred undei sheep,'' the- dealer said. Goats are coming to market her from Texas. New Mexico and Arizona Those not conditioned for slaughter are sold as feeders to farmers of Iowa Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois, where J thfy aid in clearing brush from pas ture land. |