HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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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.
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