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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1915)
HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Topping the Market for Swine . .. . t ... Wal.a ffMntlnuta i mm ..... NPVEH spcculnto on tho market. When your hogs nro finished and arc nt a point whero they refuse to put on prolllnblo gains, It la i, best to sell them, as tho mar irf V. M ni't to decline ns It Is to nil S. I have offered 0.2G for hogs LiSrh the owner was holding for n mm 11 irUct and later bought tho Lmo ho nt Sc. Tho owner lost 1.2S SStfand his hogs wcro not pay gj for their feed, as they wore fin- ,sl1 viliie or Competitive Market. t would also suggest Hint In dls-. nntloe of your hogs you ship them man ol-cn market. Tho most logical ,rket forthta locality Is tho Port gjd Union Stockyards. By cc-n-itenlnK your hogs to one of the com mission firms nt tho stockyards you iii be assured of maximum results. There Is l,lbl0 competition there. The commission men competo with Melt other to secure your business ,nd will make n special effort to so Jrm the extreme price for your hogs, they know It they do not they will "so your business. Then too, thcro iro buyers there representing all tho lareo slnughturors and most of tho imall killers In tho Northwest. Comn ctltlon Is whnt you want, and It Is here that you got It. This Is tho onlr open compctltlvo market on the pacific Coast, and It Is entitled to rour patronage. You miiBt remem ber that the buyer who tries to buy rour hogs nt your rnnch bases Mils nrlce on the Portland mnrkct. You havo tho Portland quotations nnd ho Is compelled to use tho Portland mar ket os a basis on which to buy your hogs. You must also consider the fact that he would not ho nt your ranch unless ho expects to buy them cheaper than ho could at Portland, providing ho represents n pneker. If t country shipper, bo must make n profit on the transaction nnd you aro Sillied in this nroflt. Tho country shipper Is very cssentlnl In localities where the hogs ore widely scattered tnd each rancher haB only a fow head. He collects them In car lots tad ships them to market. But tho rancher who 1ms a curload or can consolldnte with noino or his neigh bors and make up a carload, should consign them to tho open market. Community Shipments Popular. I havo purchased loads of bogs In the Portland yards inndo up or hogs owned by from 1C to 20 different ranchers. They nro sorted up In tho rards, sold on their raorlts nnd tho rapenee pro-rutcd. Each owner gets ill thcro Is in his hogs in this man ner. These community shipments arc becoming very popular. It cer tainly looks llko poor Judgment to raise and fatten your bogs nnd then dlrldo tho profits with another. Some producers carry tho Idea that the country shipper can get mora for hogs on tho mnrkct than ho can. This Is not tho case by any menus. Tho bogs nro consigned to n commission firm. Their talesman sells tho hogs it 110 per car commission. Ho will probably have from five to 10 cars of hog? to show tho buyer. Tho buy er docs not look ut tho shipper; bo Is not buying tho shipper, but tho hoss, and it Is Immaterial to him who shipped them In. What ho wants is quality In tho hogs. It Is not neces sary to know tho ropes. Moroly ship jour hogs to ono of tho commission men at tho ynrds. lie will feed your doss, water tiicin, sell tneni, see that they aro weighed properly, and glvo you a check to cover tho same day tho hofcs aro nold. You havo nothing to do but take tho money. And It you aro not with tho hogs ho will mall tho check to you. Ho la giving yon tho benefit of his experience for a nominal charge, which amounts to leu than 1 per cent on tho transac tion. When a producer sells his own noes the buyer has all tho advantage. He is posted on tho market; ha does nothing else but buy day after day iod naturally is in a position to make a letter purchnso than tho producer Is a sale. On tho other band, tho commission man is on tho market regularly. Ho can gaugo tho packers requirements very closoly and knows Just when to nsk a higher price or Men to sell on a decline Open mar kets nro tho llfo of tho livestock lu duitry nnd certnlnly deserve- tho sup Port of the producers. Italic Hotter Hogs, I want to urgo you to ralso moro nd better hogs. Finish them. Tho ,VeraJ 'eld of hogs purchased on " Portland market is around 75 per cent. This compares with drovc3 Put jip by packers on tho Mlddlo West markets, which yield 78 to 80 per wnt, but they nro all too few, but It Is encouraging to buy them occasion ally, as it shows that It can be done hero in tho Northwest. Wo hnvo Ideal conditions In the Pacific Northwest for hogrnlslng and should tako odvnntugo of these nnl ural resources. It is n source of gratification to note tho increased production of bogs dining the past flvo years. This is evidence thnt the hog Is coming Into its own in this section of tho country. No Danger of Over-Productloii. Somo producers Tear an over-production of bogs, but this is an Im possibility. Consumption is Increas ing far moro rapidly than production Wo imported from 7D to 00 per ecu of tho hogs nnd hog products used In tho Northwest from the Middle West up to two or Hires years ago: millions of dollars were returned tc tho Mlddlo West in payment for these products, but there aro no hogs be ing shipped in from the Middle Weal nt present, and receipts of hog prod ucts aro being steadily reduced. TIiIf mcnnB a Brent ileal to the North west, as tho money paid for hogs b returned to tho producers here nnr" put Into circulation. The markets ol tho world aro now at our door. Slnco tho opening of tho Panama Canal it is now posslblo to Bhlp hog products to tho Southern nnd Atlnntlc Coast states and nUo to Hurope; the out lot Is unlimited. Wo can ship hog products from Portland to Charles ton, S. C, cheaper than tho same products can bo (dripped from St. Joseph, Mo. Market Your Hogs Alive. It has been the custom for borne producers, especially those In terri tory adjacent to some ot tho larger cities ot tho Northwest, to kill their hogs on tho ranch nnd ship them in dressed to tho butchers, or, ns in Portland, to tho Front Htrnpt rnnunlu. slon mcrchunts. If the fnrmer would only stop to flguro, ho would readily soo that ho Is losing money by do ing this. In wnrm wmllmr lin rnna tho risk of having tho meat sour to such nn extent thnt It Is a total or partial loss; then, too, when the mar ket is overstocked with dressed hogs tho butchers nnd commission men havo no facilities for hold lug or pack ing thorn, nnd tho price will drop from 50 cents to 1.50 per cjvt. In ono day, causing heavy loss to the producer. Declines in the lire hog market rarely arc over 25 cents per cwt. in ono day nnd tho usual decline in prico Is 5 to 10 cents per cwt. Tho Three Kwntlnlx. Plenso remember theso three os sontlnls In your endeavor to "top thu mnrkct": Kalso purcbreds, finish your hogs and ship them alive to the open market. Pure Foods- itillllll NjfJTTnTffjISnin are an American institution. U.S. food laws arc very stringent nbout baking powdcr3. CRESCENT conforms to the very letter and spirit of the law made to .afc guard vourjicalth.' ALirGROCERS 25c a Lb.' CHESCENT MArMUFACTUMNO CO. Srattlr. Waah. , ?. 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Name AiMrt-tt , LAST month tho Cnundlnir Hxpross Company, which operates on the ontlro Grand Trunk system, celebrat ed its 50th anniversary, letters pat ent being granted by the Federal Qovornracnt to tho forwnrdlng cora pnny of thnt nnmo In February, 18C5. In reality tho company Is much older, for, ns tho Hrltlah-Ainorlcau Express, It was established In tho early '50s and operated stage lines in winter nnd Htcambonts when wnter naviga tion was possible. Although the Grand Trunk wns tho second rnilwuy opened on this continent, tho express company now operating over Ub lines is many ycuru older. As early ns 1858 It opened a branch office In Liverpool, nnd for years it was tho only American ex pross company with offices in Orent Britain. Today it has branches In many cities ot England nnd the Con tinent. It serves 967G miles of rail way lines, including tho entire sys tem of tho Grand Trunk, the Grand Trunk Pacific, tho Cnnudlnu govern ment railways and the Central Ver mont. Since October 1, 1911, when tho lato Charles II. Hays, who later went down on tho Titanic, left the presidency of tho company to become chairman of Its board of directors, tho company has had for its head John Pullen, formerly assistant freight traffic manager of the Grand Trunk system. 41 Every time you buy from advertisements in this paper you help to make a better paper, 50,000 CHICKS S C WHITE LEGHORNS Why wants feed on scrubs anil In lirtMl atock whan you can tret chicks from pedigreed Orenon free ramie. Trapneated. 173 ckbo and over for 1Z psr 100, AKent for the JUBILEE INCUBATOR World' Ural. IIOI.IUIOtlKs JUIII- l.Ull HATCIIKIIY, !-!! 3 .leatnp St., I'orllund, Orrtcoii, Our Baby Chick Hatchery will start January 1. Place your ordar now for chicles from hlglt-brod WIUTI". LEGHORN cgs-producerp. Some of our birds have a record of 150 eggs. 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