The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, March 19, 1915, HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextHOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION 7 Topping the Market for Swine O'nntlnucd From List Wflk.) NEVER speculate on the market. When your hogs are finished and ire at a point where they refuse to put on profitable gains, it is always best to sell them, as the mar ket is as apt to decline as It is to ad vance. I have offered $9.25 for hogs which the owner was holding for a J9.50 market and later bought the same hogs at 8c. The owner lost $1.25 per cwt. and his hogs were not pay ing for their feed, as they were fin ished. Value of Competitive Market. I would also suggest that in dis posing of jour hogs you ship them to an open market. The most logical market for this locality Is the Port land Union Stockyards. By con signing your hogs to one of the com mission firms at the stockyards yon will be assured of maximum results. There is double competition there. The commission men compete with each other to secure your business and will make a special effort to stt cure the extreme price for your hogs, as they know if they do not they will lose your business. Then, too, there are buyers there representing all the large slaughterers and most of the small killers in the Northwest. Comp etition is what you want, and It Is here that you get It. This is the only open competitive market on the Pacific- Coast, and it Is entitled to your patronage. You must remem ber that the buyer who tries to buy jour hogs -at your ranch bases his price on the Portland market. Yo"u have the Portland quotations and he Is compelled to use the Portland mar ker as a basis on which to buy your hogs. You must also consider the fact that he would not be at your ranch unless he expects to buy them cheaper than he could at Portland, providing he represents a packer. If a country shipper, he must make a profit on the transaction and you are entitled to this profit. The country shipper is very essential in localities where the hogs are widely scattered and eanh rancher has only a few head. Me collects them In car lots and ships them to market. But the rancher who has a carload or can consolidate with some of his neigh bors and make up a carload, should consign them to the open market. Community Shipments Popular. I have purchased loads of hogs in the Portland yards made up of hogs owned by from 15 to 20 different ranchers. They are sorted up In the yards, sold on their merits and the expense pro-rated. Each owner gets all there Is in his hogs in this man ner. These community shipments are becoming very popular. It cer tainly looks like poor judgment to raise and fatten your hogs and then divide the profits with another. Some producers carry the idea that the country shipper can get more for hogs on the market than he can. This Is not the case by any means. The hogs are consigned to a commission firm. Their salesman sells tho hogs at $10 per car commission. He will probably have from five to 13 cars of hogs to show the buyer. The buy er does not look at the shipper; he Is not buying the shipper, but the hogs, and it is Immaterial to him who shipped them In. What he wants is quality in the hogs. It is not neces sary to know the ropes. Merely ship your hogs to one of the commission men at the yards. He will feed your hogs, water them, sell them, see that they are weighed properly, and give you a check to cover the same day the hogs are sold. You have nothing to do but take the money. And if you are not with the hops he will mail the check to you. lie is giving you the benefit of his experience for a nominal charge, which amounts to less than 1 per cent on the transac tion. When a producer sells his own hogs the buyer has all the advantage. He Is posted on the market; he does nothing else but buy day after day and naturally is in a position to make a better purchase than the producer Is a sale. On the other hand, the commission man Is on the market regularly. He can gauge the packers' requirements very closely and knows just when to ask a higher price or when to sell on a decline. Open mar kets are the life of the livestock In dustry and certainly deserve the sup port of the producers. ISulso Better Hogs. I want to urge you to raise more and better hogs. Finish them. The average yield of hogs purchased on the Portland market is around 7G per cent. This compares with droves put up by packers on the Middle West markets, which yield 78 to 80 per cent, but they are all too few, but it Is encouraging to buy them occasion ally, as It shows that it can be done here In the Northwest. We have Ideal conditions In the Pacific- Northwest for hograising and should take advantage of these nat ural resources. It is a source of gratification to note the increased production of hogs during the past five years. This is evidence that the hog is coming into its own in this section of the country. No Danger of Orer-Productioa. Some producers fear an over-production of bogs, but this is an im possibility. Consumption is increas ing far more rapidly than production. We imported from 75 to 90 per ceni of the hogs and hog products used in the Northwest from the Middle West up to two or three years ago; millions of dollars were returned to the Middle West in payment for these products, but there are no hogs be ing shipped in from the Middle West at present, aud receipts of hog prod ucts are being steadily reduced. This means a great deal to the North west, as the money paid for hogs i: returned to the producers here and put into circulation. The markets ol the world are now at our door. Since the opening of the Panama Canal it is now possible to ship hog products to the Southern and Atlantic Coast states and also to Europe; the out let is unlimited. We can ship hog products from Portland to Charles ton, S. C, cheaper than the same products caa be shipped from St. Joseph, Mo. Market Your Hogs Alive. It has been the custom for some producers, especially 'those in terri tory adjacent to some of the larger cities of the Northwest, to kill their hogs on the ranch and ship them in dressed to the butchers, or, as in Portland, to the Front street commis sion merchants. If the farmer would only stop to figure, he would readily see that he is losing money by do ing this. In .warm weather he runs the risk of having the meat sour to such an extent that it is a total or partial loss; then, too, when the mar ket is overstocked with dressed hogs the butchers and commission men have no facilities for holding or pack ing them and the price will drop from 50 cents to fl.50 per ewt. in one day, causing heavy loss to the producer. Declines In the live hog market rarely are over 25 cents per cwt. in one day and the usual decline in price Is 5 to 10 cents per cwt. The Three Essentials. Please remember these three es sentials in your endeavor to "top the market": Raise purebreds, finish your hogs and ship them alive to the open market. Canadian Epress Co. Now Fifty Years Old LAST month the Canadian Express Company, which operates on the entire Grand Trunk system, celebrat ed Its 50th anniversary, letters pat ent being granted by the Federal Government to the forwarding com pany of that name in February, 186j. In reality the company is much older, for, as the British-American Express, it wns established in the early '50s and operated stage lines in winter and steamboats when water naviga tion was possible. -Although the Grand Trunk was the second railway opened on this continent, the express company now operating over its lines is many years older. As early as 1858 it opened a branch office in Liverpool, aud for years it was the only American ex press company with offices in Great Britain. Today it has branches In many cities of England and the Con tinent. It serves 9676 miles of tall way lines, including the entire sys tem of the Grand Trunk, the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian govern ment railways and the Central Ver mont. Since October 1, 1911, when the late Charles H. Hays, who later went down on the Titanic, left the presidency of the company to become chairman of Its board of directors, the company has had for its head John Pullen, formerly assistant freight traffic manager of the Grand Trunk system. TT Every time you buy (II from advertisements in this paper you help to make a better paper. Pure 4 Foods! are an Amencan'institution. U.S. food laws are very t-tringent about baking powders ,r - v CRESCENT conforms to the very letter and spirit of the law made to afc guard vourhealth? ALrCROCERS 25c a Lb? CHESCENT MANUFACTURING CO. , Srattle, Wh.'. KE. DROUTH. Prepare four soil to retain motitur aad prod act bliritr crap yields, bj maklni lieifect be vltb ths mrr.RiAL pilvemzer Pic!;j th fjbsoll and CTutbfi, roll, Ifveli aid pulvtrize ths topMlL Doel the ork of t Implement 11 la one trip. C bujlng more laiplement3 OoVcS two extra trim over too Hieaea ground. Bead t i e tr our booklet 4 Prlerinn Mtf. 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