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Show I LAMBS AND SHEEP ARE I HIGH AND DEMAND I ISM H HOG MARKET STILL DECLINES ON SMALL RECEIPTS. H Stookers and Feeders Coming In and H Eastern Buyers Active Run of H Western Lambs Will Bo Over in H Two More Weeks Veal Calves H Steady and Buying Liberal H Corrseftemtsnce Tlio Sun KANSAS C1TV, Mo, Oet. 36 H With entile receipts here alMiut seven M thotmiml Im than n week ago and m prosjwets fur next week light, ow-M ow-M log to the national election, trade M ruled active at strong to Ucntp-five H rents higher priees Pat eattle Mere B in Htjtht supply and there was n good m demand for stock and feeding grade M Hoc; priees were fifteen to twenty-H twenty-H five eenta loner nnd the lowest since HI oarlv Februarj of 1017. Sheep and m InmiM sold readily at strong priced M IteeeipU today were 32,000 cattle, H 0000 (tog nnd CO00 sheep. Killers H were fairly anxious for nil classes of H fat eattle at strong to t went j -five j cents higher price. The market show-H show-H d the first activity in several weeks M jwst, Tlio improved condition hero H Mm more noticeable as Chicago qiiol-B qiiol-B ed n dull nnd lower market. Soma m slwrtfed steers sold nt $12.76 to B $13 26 and the better ones brought 41100 to $1500. Nothing choico to prime was offered. Most of the com. B mon lightweight grass stconr sold nt ti 00 to 00 and the better grassers H brought UW) to $1276 Killers had M to meet feeder competition on the H good imalitj. Cows and hoi f era wore B quoted strong to twentj-fivo cents higher. Voal calve were steady. The M per cent of slnckcr nnd feeders in M jin)Mirtl(in to total reeoiits of cnttlo M was liberal, but thcro was nn nctlve B demand and price ruled strong. Ite reipta from the I'nnhnndlo nnd South. B w est were liberal nnd qunlttj was gwtd. Rastoni feeders nre incrensing B their orders. Last week thirty-one (IwttMnd thin eottlo wcro shipped back to country jiolnts. Though receipts wcro moderate, the decline in hogs continued nnd pneos readied n new low level for the jenr Todnj's dcclino was fifteen to 1 twentj-fivo cents. Top prico $13 00 H nnd bulk of sales $12 CO to $1300. H Tigs sold up to $1325. Other mar- H lets reported sharp declines. Chi- H cago scratched $1325 early, but later B none sold above $13.00. Hero nt the -ilecline packers bought freclj. Light receipts brought stronger jince for Iambs. Sheep were fully M steady. lUst Inmlw sold at $1200 to H 12JMi and ewes 6 00 to $6.60. Feed- H ing Iamb lirought $11.00 to $1200 M Tkm who am counting on buying B waatwn ImwIm will have to make pur- baM In the next two weeks aa the H run will be over by the middle of No- M vetnher. H JtEPORT BULL ASSOCIATIONS H SHOW INCREASE THIS YEAR m In the count up of bull association B for the last fiscal enr made by tlio ilair.v division of the United htutes detriment of ngnoultiire, assoeia- turns sro found Nil over the country. Thew am now a hundred and tweut- tj -three, where there were only wn- m m -eight the jear liefure. This is an H uersM of 67 jter eent '1 hirly or the B forty-eight stales in the union are on the list. AsMHiatioHM are not mpiall) nuuMimua in all states, however, for fimr Alabama, Pennsylvania, Mis- wiuMmii and South Carolina furnish Hj near); half of tha total. '1 he iiiimber M of asaoeiations found In eneb of these M four states is AlaUma, seven, l'enii- B svlvania, twent.v-oiie; Mississjpii, M eleven, ami South Carolina, seven- H tH. Three of these leading stated B are in the cotton belt Dairying is H eomMratiel.v new in that jwrt of the H eounlo, and the men going into the B business are building on the right foundations from the start One of B the important foundations of ulfee- live ami luerative dairving is eo- m owrsti.m and thn extension work m uarnel on b the dairy division and B 0 tbe .various state agrieultiiiul eol- H leges has Imwu the means of introdue- M ing effieieut methmls at the outset H wherever iknryiug is taken up in the B South reunsjlvauia is an old estab- Iishetl dair state, hut has taken to B the bull assoeiattou idea in n remark- m able manner, ami lias in faot the liirg- B nt number of mII H SHEEP CONDITIONS IN H IDAHO ARE DESCRIBED H I)r S W MiClure, the fonner see- rotarv of the Natiuuaul Woolgrowors' B nasooiation, and now manager of tlio B Columbm Rasin A ool and Warehouse oouiauy near Weiser, Ida, gives in tlio Uetober Woolgrouer u Ntatemenl ns to sheep conditions hi Idaho : "Ouu- H oral oonditions affeiting sheep m the H statu of Idaho are bettor thnn for 1 many enrs. Quod rains liavo fallen 1 over most of tlio state and mugo feed m is vary p)od. On October 1st wo have not ut had a frost in Coutral Idaho M The hay crop is as largo us o ur grow n M in this stnto and it bus been put-up in H first-clnsa condition. A little hn hits B been contracted in the stack at sovon M to eight dollars, but tbu total salos M Jinvo been small. Tanners aro still H asking ten dollars for hny but an of- M lor of eight dollars would buy most of it Idaho has n lnrjw crop of bar-lo bar-lo which is selling to tho elevntors nt nround $170. Tho elevntors nro disposing of it nt about $2.26 in car lots, bulk. "Tho wages of shcophcrdcrs nro now gradually being reduced Somo of the larger outfits aro paying about seventy-five dollars per month nnd most of them will bo on Hint basis by December 1st. Lambs in Idaho and Oregon aro nhoul cleaned up nnd good feeder lamln nre now selling nt 10V cents. It. r Dicknees of Iloisc. Ida, has Imtight eight thousand lambs for customers of bis banks The demand for breeding ewes has devclocd quito strong nnd some fair sales arc report ed In Southern Oregon two bands of fino wool ewes recently changed hands on n basis of thirteen dollar? "Not many sales of wool have been reKrtcd. A J. Knollin reeentl) sold his qunrtor-hlood wool at 37Vfe cents, Huston, Mnss, and his braid nt seventeen seven-teen cents Huston. A clip of hort heavy fino clothing wool was recently sold in Portland. Ore, by tho Columbia Colum-bia Hnsin Wnroliouso nt forty cents. While most of our feeder lambs nro f;one there nro still n good mnu coring cor-ing wethers loft. Soma feeders nro turning their attention to wethers as they con bo bought nround 36 cents lower thnn lambs Many thin wethers nt nround seven cents will show n fair profit on cheep feed." MUCH STOCK 18 ENROLLED IN BETTER SIRE OAMPAION In tho Western rnngo states nil kinds of sires bulls espceiall nro receiving scrutiny by livo stock owners. own-ers. There is increasing evidence that good purebred mates hnvo wido influence in-fluence on tho quality of joung stock nnd on tho returns from stockrnising alterations. Ono day recently the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture enrolled in the "Ucttcr Sires Ucttor Stock" movement several ranchmen, each of whom had moro than n thousand head of livo stock. Ono flovk of sheep contained two hundred nnd fifty purebred ewes nnd thirty-four hundred nnd fifty crossbred cross-bred owes, tho sires being all purebred. pure-bred. A cntllornlser who enlisted in tho campaign the samo day notified tho department: "I hnvo disposed of two grade Hereford bulls recently, having decided to run nothing but purebred sires." This remark is but typical of the progress of the moic-merit moic-merit in Montana. YESTERDAY'S MARKETS. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oot. 23-Cattle 23-Cattle Heceipts, 0300; beef steers, bnruly stead) ; early snlot, $3 J5 to WJX); nothing choice on sole, sotck-urs sotck-urs nnd calves, steady to strong; nil others nround slond.v ; bulk she stock, $0 00 to $7.50; cannon nround $-100; best cn1ors, $13.50. Hogs Hccoipts, 0000; closing fairly fair-ly aolivc, generally twont-five to forty cents lower than yesterday's average. Top, $12.00; hulk medium mid heavyweight, $12-10 to $12.75: good and choice, 130 to IGOiioumi hogs, $12.25 to $12.00. .Shee Heceipts, 0600; Iambs and jearlinga, five to twenty.five cents higher Feeding yearlings, $10 00; western lambs, $12.06; sheep, twent-five twent-five to fifty cents higher; feeding whiten, 800; feoding Iambs, steady to strong, $1126 paid. Sudden Fluctuations. CHICAOO, Oet. 26. lUpreseiitn-Uvea lUpreseiitn-Uvea of livo stoek oxchanges of the Unitod States nt n conference bora todav apjtointed n committee to In-vosllgate In-vosllgate mid reoummtnd means to prevent sudden fluctuations in the iirieea of meat animals. The problem is fundamentally one of better nd-justing nd-justing the supply of livo stoek to tho demand. Under the prosent lyslein the numlier of moot minimis received nt the different markits varies In tliousands from day to day nnd week to week. This tends to cause severe flui tuutions up nnd down of tho prices received for livo stock. A. It. Atwood of Huiina in Duoh-esuv Duoh-esuv count has just been njijiointod brand liuqxmtor fitr tho western part of that county His headquarters nre at Duvhue. The appoiutmeut is nn-nouiieed nn-nouiieed by the statu live stock commission. com-mission. Heoause of the great difficulty of purchasing frnxen mont, due to tho high exchange rnte, nnd bewniBo tho government wishes to conserve thonn- tionnl supply of cnttlo tho sale of , meat again has been prohibited in Homo from Wednesday afternoon to ' Saturday morning. Tho threat is undo that, if the consumption of tnent , docs not show n decrease, tho author-ities author-ities will bo obliged to adopt meat ' cards. Ilread, sugar, oil nnd imicn- roni nro still procured by card. , Hob Marshall of Upalco has just re- , turned to tho Uintah Disin country nftcr selling seventeen hundred head ' of lambs in Denver, Colo. Ho found prices good. His stuff rAernged scv- . cnty-two jtounds after getting to mar-kit. mar-kit. ' |
