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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1925)
r—. a 1 ■ \ Review of gains for I Omaha market shows: Hogs, 328,782 over 1923; Cattle, 74,259 head. Sheep lost in 1924 to the tune of ^ 125,231 Horses and mules jl lost 4,374 head and calves 1 lost 4,645 head. There was ij, a total gain over last year | of 268,801 head of all a kinds of livestock. v_/ S THE SUNDAY BEE: OMAHA, JANUARY 4, 1925. * _3—B More than twelve mil lion dollars went into new 8 building improvements in the city of Omaha for 1924. # Prosperity and happiness n go hand in hand. The twins are fostered by intel ligent co-operation. We | should not soon forget the | lessons learned by the re cent failure of agriculture, v_■> EDITED BY C. H. BLAKELY. ' __ American Farmers Produced Twelve Billion Dollars in 1924 Prosperous Year for Agriculture Is 1925 Forecast Supply and Demand in World Markets Properly Bal anced; Good Prices Predicted. Straight Ahead! Prosperity Is getting • it’s stride snd is gradually forging ahead. In 1922 the total agricultural wealth ^ produced in America was $9,500, ^ 000,000, In 1923 the total was pulled forward to $11,500,000,000. The year Just ending has given American farmers a grand total of $12,000,000,000 in new wealth. It is not altogether a catchy phrase nor a i “cheer-eo-boy” statement when we say prosperity is coming back to the farmer. It has been coming for three years and the year 1925 should see even greater strides. v> The visible supply of agricultural products available for consumption before another crop can be raised, has diminished since early estimates. Wheat has been getting some hard runs and export trade has fallen oft within the last two weeks. Millers all over America are offering premi urns for choice samples. Final crop estimates on wheat show ", lbss of close to 400,000,000 bushels n world-wide production. This loss s being keenly felt in the wheat pits 41 the American and Liverpool mar kets. Ail Importing countries, however, Me straining their exchange power to buy brendsttiffs. This steady buyer influence has kept the market stable ind offers a good future for the out let of visible supplies of wheat. Corn Is Sluggish. The early estimates of corn showed i general shortage of this staple. Later developments in available sup plies show that the shortage Is not iffeciing demand as much ns was ex pected. gf-. Prices which have prevailed have been largely speculative. Many ■hanges have occurred to affect the -oniing prices of corn. Commercial -Ircles are becoming skeptical of the 'resent high prices and a drop will undoubtedly occur during the first months of 1925. The commercial de uand Is about one-third of what it s been for the last two years. Feed 's are refusing to pay the high peculative prices and will continue o hedge in their operations. The movement of corn^has not got ten un'b'i way sufficiently at this i .-trly date to warrant any definite :-i evictions. This much is true, that ■trices have been boosted by specula tion and demand lias had very little to do with it. The rises have been largely in sympathy with other staples. Oats, live and Flax Fp. The visible supply of oats has been limited largely to that which teas raised in America. The foreign sup ply has been very low. This has caused a general upturn in specula live buying. The outlook is very bright for higher prices as a large consumption Is on the way just a« soon as the crop gets moving. Rye is getting its encore along with wheat. The supply from the princl pal rye-producing countries has been very doubtful. Owing to the high upturn In prices of wheat, rye has trailed with equal favor. The world estimate Is close to 1,180,000,000, com pared with 1923 supplies of 1.5Q0.000, 000 bushels. The upturn In the flax market Is largely due to rapid absorption ot ihls staple by Industry. The foreign supply Is reported as very low. The South American crop lias been dam iged and that source will be cut off. Cattle Runs Lighter. During the last month of 1924 the cattle runs decreased enough to bring back general strength of th» livestock market. It is believed that many of the warmed up and short fed cattle have been marketed. Range supplies have been coming in rather heavily during the latter half of the year, but this only shows a future possibility for better conditions for the year 1925. The cattle outlook Is brighter at this ^lme than It has been for some time. Dairy Products Steady. The good dairy producing countries have been blessed with very favorable weather this year. The visible supply o^f butter Is Indicated by a large hold over of the lower grades. Kxport trade Is picking up and the move ment of the better grades has seen a sharp advance. However, the total outlook Is steady, especially for the choice supplies of cheese and butter. At the end of 1924 the storage supply of dairy products Is the largest that It has been for many years. Manufacturers are looking for some sharp changes In the situation during 1925. It is believed that the high pries of grain will turn many farmers back to that work rather lhan the milking of cows. The his tory of the dairy business In Amer lea has been largely that of Jumping p Into the business when grain prlcev • re low, then getting out again soon as prices begin to come back. This year may see soma revolutionary changea In the butter business. The farmer who uses Judgment should come through with /lying colors this year. OMAHA LEADS AS FEEDER MARKET Scenes at South Omaha Stockyards Showing, Hog, Cattle and Sheep Markets .^. Feeder cuttle yards down nt the South Omaha market. The location of the South Omaha market, together with its facilities to handle thousand of cattle is making it famous as a center for feeder cattle. Ituyer* from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and many other outside states are coming to Omaha for feeder cattle. Four hundred sixty-six thousand nine hundred ninty-seven head of cattle went to tile country from the South Omaha market in 1921. Bis Agricultural Meet at Lincoln Starts Tuesday All Farm Organizations in State Will Take Part in Discussions; Noted Speakers Coming. All agricultural organizations In N»brn«ka will join In the annual ‘‘organized agriculture” meeting at the state agricultural college rumpus at I.lneoln, January 6 to 9. The meeting will he addressed h.v promi nent agricultural experts of Nebraska and the middle west. F. W. Murphy of Wheaton. Minn., chairman of the executive commit tee of the American Council of Agri culture, will speak on "Kiiualltv for the Farmer” and Eugene Davenport, former dean of the agricultural col lege of the 1'niverslty of Illlnoia, will address several meetings. Miss Alma Hinzel, lecturer, will be the principal speaker at the home economics sea sions. The annual ‘farmers’ family fun feed,” prepared by the home econo mics department of the university, will be held in the engineering build ing Wednesday evening. The organizations which will Join in the meeting will be the Nebraska Crop Growers’ association, the Ne braska Improved Livestock Breeders’ association, the Home Economics as sociation, the Nebraska State Horti cultural society, the Nebraska State Dairymen’s association, the Nebraska Farm Bureau federation, the Nebras ka Milk Goat Breeders’ association and the Nebraska School Patrons' association. RESOLUTIONS. If our live* are our own we do not look backward, at till* time of year, eacept with cursory glance which gives us iierspective. The mis-step* and broken resolution* of h- idd year soon for (ten in the 'lies for our e I f a r e . 'u oughout the coming sea son*. Without ho|ie we are helpless. Reso lutions arc ha by hope*; resolutions are embryo forms of hope; Ihi ve lug* of strength which will carry u* liver the mountain* of doubt. Poor indeed i* the hoiiI which doe* not have moral Mtrengtli to come to the altar of hope once a year and right Itself after the Htorm* of a 12 numlh*’ voyage upon the sen of time, Is-t's ap proach file New irar with clean desires to live a more complete, a bigger and better life, a life of service to mankind. In making our resolution* let's draft them »<> concretely that they will he Imllt into the erred of our living. I-cl's look Hlraight ahead, for our own goal lies out there. fly such light as we have Straight Ahead Is our rcsolulbm for 102a. i v--—A A none in one of the feed yards down at the South Omaha stockyards. Sheep have "come bark," since the slump after the war, more than any other kind of livestock, Omaha is forging to the front as a feeder sheep market. The local market received 2,811,121 sheep in 1921. Eight hundred twenty two thousand and sixty-nine head of sheep were taken to the country and other points from the Omaha market in 1921. This was an increase of 70.900 head over the 1923 country run. What Do the Figures Mean? There were 1,758.934 head of cattle shipped to the Omaha market In 1824. How may we comprehend such fig ures? Shut your eyes and 'Imagine you are looking across a gigantic cattle ranch down In southern Cali fornia; before you are cattle, cattle of every kind, fat cattle, thin cattle, white-faced cattle, red, roans, white ones, black cattle; there are over 1,500,000 of them, you say. From your high point of observation you see them stringing out to water. Walking single file, the line would teach from Tia Juana, Mexico, to Portland, Me. If they walked 10 feet apart as they strung out. they would roach around the world at the equa tor. Yet all these cattle were handled down at the South Omaha market. The tremendous Industry, which Is located right her* at our door, la doing a business which almost stumps the imagination. An Ocean of Hogs. Three million nine hundred seventy eight thousand two hundred eighty eight ho'gs arrived at tha South Omaha market. How can we visu alise such figures? Imagine that you are looking down into a pen of pork ere containing all the hogs which ar rived here in 1924. It would look like an ocean of moving forms. Strung out 10 feet apart, they would reach around the world at the equator and enough would be left over to reach around the world again from pole to pole. These hogs were handled by the local market as Effi ciently as the average farmer would handle a truckload of them. Organ! wit Ion, efficiency, cooperation and modern equipment makes It possible for the market to do this kind of hu« nesS. Have you ever gone down to the yards and watched them unload, feed, sell and slaughter one day's run of(hog»? It Is a sight for the credu lous. Imagine the Blanket. Two million eight hundred forty four thousand four hundred twenty one sharp arrived at ths Omaha mar ket, How ran we estimate such fig ores? I .fit's skin ’em nnd sew them together Into on*. Mg Woolen blanket. It would make a blanket 7f»0 suuaiv miles In sire. Omaha has 3K square mlle.s In Its incorporated limits. This blanket made from the sheep pelts would cover Omaha with 20 folds Imagine an Industry handling sheep enough to make a blanket that largo and you have a picture of the enor mous business clone down at the South Omaha market. Weaning the Calves. Now let's take the calves. One hundred three thousand six hundred twenty-two head of them arrived at the local market for 1374. It Is ivenning time down on the farm. When weaning time comes you know how the little baby calves grieve over their "mammies," Well, perhaps, you can visualize the bawling, the hoarse Matting of ton.ono calves at we-cnlng time. Home noise, eh'/ Well, the hoys who have been swinging gates down at the yards Imvs been listen lug to this noise, multiplied by all the blattlng of millions of sheep, squealing of millions of pigs, baw ling of millions of cattle and the natural noise created by the boss around the pens, yet they keep right on shoving them through. They took care of 9,697,630 head of livestock In the 12 months of 1324. Some Train. Load all of this livestock aboard a fast freight train—129,79* carloads. What kind of a train would It be? Some railroad men please write In and tell us what It would mean. How long would It be and how many en gines would It take to pull 'em? Weil, these figures mean some thing to us when we look at them from these comparisons. The live stock market down here In the back yard of Nebraska nnd Iowa's farm ing community means something, too. The year 1324 Is gone. Its good greetings have blessed us and made life bigger and better for every one of us. Let's boost for a bigger end better market for Omaha for 1925. PURE-BRED PRICES ARE COMING BACK The prlcee paid at the E*chn«r A Ryan auction at Manning, la., U*-*ra 1st 17, averaged $475 per head. The total receipts for the Bale wee $24 7in. This looks like old tlmea In the pure bred game, declaree the Breeder's Gazette. Black Marshall 11th, the recent grand champion bull of the Interna tlonal Livestock exposition, was bought by H. O. Harrison, San Frah cleco, for $10,100. Black Marshall fs one of the great hulls of the Aberdeen Angus breed. His show record Is an pnvlable one. These kind of rattle are getting scarce. The breeders of Atner |ca have not lost faith In the pure bred business and as prosperity comes back to other lines of buelnese we can expect the purebred business to do Its share. It was from this great herd that our own university of N> hraakn, bought the foundations which produced the reserve grand champion calf of the recent livestock Interne tlonal Illood will tell. OVERPRODUCTION CUTS HAY PRICE Uncoln. Jan S Report* from n large number of bay shipper* arid dealer* throughout the 1’nlted Stale Indh-at* that only about nn*-thlrd of the 1024 orop of timothy liny had lieen marketed to December IS. state* the l'nlted State* Departntent of Agriculture In lie review of the hay situation for the week ending De camber 27. Slightly morn than one half of the marketable alfalfa had been eold lo the middle of December, while 40 per cent of the prairie ha 1 had gone to the market. Timothy price* are about f.7 I clou taut year* level the Iren,I >* point Ing downward a* the crop lu-gln* to move I'ralrle hay I* off front IM'.'.'l level*. The lower price trend I* due largely In an overproduction of marketable hay, declare* th* report. Feeders’ Profit Lies in Careful Buying of Stoek Hi;di Prices of Grain Tan Be Overcome by Judgement in Purchases of Animals. Many good feeders never make money from their operations because they have put In animals that were! bought at too high a price. Experi enced market buyers ars keen Jud.-rs of values. They will not over bid : themselves when buying thetr feeder. stock. This mistake Is too often the outstanding reason for lo*s of money In handling any class of feeding anl-! mats. The question of hlghprlcsd feeds can he overcome by good manage- • ment In the use of a proper propor-1 tlon of the right kinds of feeds. When ^ feed Is high, equally high price* re-! turns for the finished product usual j ly prevail. Half-finished snd warmed up stock are the kind which suffers i low prlcee when feed* are abnormal ; ly high. At the present time, corn and other! feed lot grains are rather high and; this fact frightens feeders who are not sure of their ability to buy right.' tt Is different with the buyer who I knows feeder stock The price of feed j only gives him a whip to use In j selecting more choice animals for his1 feed lot. The demand by poor Judges j bnvo fallen off, and the wise buyer has clear sailing and less competition.' The wise feeders look to quality first. They p|c|< out the kind of ani mals flint win make rapid gains on the high-priced feed stuff, then buy •hem as close to bed rock values as possible. The thick set, short faced meat types are always In demand, but doubly so In times when feeds are high. The outlook for feeding operations for the first |m|f of 1925 Is bright. Of course, the feeders must buy the sup i)ly worth the money. Nothing but (be good kinds should be put against the high priced feeds. The feeder who uses Judgment with knowledge of feeds Slid feeding will iiial^o profits on Ida operations for 1925, The gen ernl outlook for higher prices for the early sprln* months Is good. LAND SELLS FOR $107.50 PER ACRE n W. Harbor, aeoretarytreaeurer of til# Hhedd Invoetment cmapanv, re rently cloaf'd on* of the larffaat trnne action# In .Vebraakn farm land report «*d fhlH **S*|J»On Til# property eoualated of a aolld aeotlon of farm land In th# Norfolk territory, with fair Improvementn. Tin form, nhlrh w.na Hated with the Shedd Inveatment romiiany at 1110 per a.-re aid.! for $107 K0 per acre, or >00, and nna caah. Scene at the hog market, Soutn Omaha. Hogs go from this market to tlie east roast, the Pacific roast, to all of the cornbelt stales. Omaha ■ hips many trainloads of live hogs to independent packers. This additional demand over and above the local pack er demand is what is making Omaha one of the best hog markets in the world. ——--——-— - * We Have the Proof o/ QUALITY AKE us prove to you how Red Feather Cattle Pudding will add to the selling price of cattle. Make us prove how Red Feather Cattle Pudding will produce gains at less cost. Make us prove how Red Feather Cattle Pudding will replace high priced concentrates, such as oil meal and cottonseed meal to a better advantage. Make us prove how this feed can eliminate all that trouble, grief and loss that comes with experimenting with high priced concentrates of in ferior feeding value. Don’t waste time, money and profits. Get in touch with us im mediately and make us prove the above statements. M. C. PETERS MILL CO. South Omaha, Nebraska ! — _I 1 \ I Location Assures i Growth of Omaha as’Stock Market Eastern Demand Meets est ern Supply at Loral \ ards; 100 Cars Shipped Daily. Outstanding among the reasons for Omaha’s phenomenal growth as a livestock market Is the great Industry established here by the large pack ing companies. ’’Without the demand created bv the competition among the principal packer buyer, the Omaha market would he insignificant,” declared Frank Stryker, secretary of the Live stock exchange. There are many contributing fac tors which make it possible for Oma ha to outstrlde its competitors. Its geographical location Is another out standing reason for growth, being in the very heart of the cornbelt; It is actually the place where eastern de mand and western supply meet. No other market is so fortunately situated geographically. Its location has caused It to become one of the great railroad centers of America. The railroad companies have co-oper ated with the market In arranging schedules to the eastern markets. It is possible to load at Omaha and be at the eastern seaboard in five days by the fast freight services now avail able with the railroad companies. Feeder Buyers Create Demand. Many thousands of head of cattle >nd sheep are bought by feeders from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Mary land, Michigan, Tennessee and Ken tucky, and other outside states. This outside demand, which has been cre ated by special efforts to reach out side trade, has assisted Omaha to be come one of America'* best feeder markets. The good prices and high quality of feeder stuff arriving on the Omaha market has established It as the best place to sell or buy. *It Is no uncommon occurrence for the Omaha market to ship daily as many as 300 carloads of livestock to various eastern markets. This ever increasing demand is really one of the features which makes the South Omaha market different from other markets. Barge Independent^ packing con cerns In New York. New Jersey, Maryland and other Atlantic seaboard states have established a new line of competition. Shippers to the Omaha market have the benefit of this out side buying influence. West Buy* Many Hog*. Besides the heavy demand for cst tle. sheep and hogs which go to the eastern markets, Omaha is building up a trade with the Pacific coast states in the hog trade. The west coast does not produce enough pork to supply demand. They are constant competitors in the hog market at Omaha.' They buy hundreds of car load lots of live hogs and ship them to the Pacific coast packers for slaughter. These factors really make the Omaha market distinctive. It is not uncommon to have fat cattle, hog* and sheep going out to Baltimore. Philadelphia, New Y’ork City, New ark. *N. J., Rochester, Buffalo and Boston on the same day. Whole trainloads of hogs go to San Fran cisco, Portland and Seattle.