FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
LIVE STOCK SALESMFfv AND BROKERS
F. W. FLATO , Jii , Pit-sidi-nt. ED. fl. REID /
PAUL FLATO , Vice President. JIM s. HORN f r"ttle - ] l-n *
J. C. DATILMAN. Secretary. E. W. CAIIOAV , Hog Salesman
JOHN D. SEITZ. HUGH ITITCUCOCK , Sheep "
ED. H. RIED , JOHN P. CLARY , Cashier
SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
Correspondents :
DRUM-FLATO COMMISSION COMPANY
Capital $500,000.00.
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A Few Eacts For Cattle Dealers.
fft has been repeatedly
demonstrated in
the pa.st that
Stands at top as a market for Range Feeders
You can satisfy yourself as to the truth of that ( Statement by
comparing the sales al > .Sioux City , last year , with those at any other
competitive market You cau abe ask your neighbors who have sold
rattle at Sioux City. This year Sioux t'ity is in the field for fat cat
tle as well as feeders. The jjreat beef slaughtering plant of the
Cuduhy Packing Co. is ready for business
N"o charges , except for feed ordered if your cattle are not sold on our market
he Sioux Uity Stock Yards Co.
FOHN II. KEENE , ttenoral Manager
Millinery
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SOUTH OMAHA , NEBRASKA
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n > hvvM larnecliciit ire among Nebraska Keeders and ran always oe.it Omaha prices to | i
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TfS. V. NICiSOLSttXCashier ,
Valentine , Nebraska.
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Exchange bought and sold. Loans upon good security solicited at reasonabX
rates. County depository.
E. SPARKS/ President CHAJRLES SPARES Cashier
BEEF FORM.
Polntu lo Be Con lilerc l In the
c t Development.
Professor C. F. Curtiss of the Iov/a
experiment station gives in The Breed
er's Gazette the accompanying illustra
tion and description of a typical beef an
imal. The location of the crops is indi
cated by No. 14. They lie on either side
of the spinal colnmn , just back of the
top of the shoulders. They should be
full , so that the back and shoulder will
be evenly joined at this point ; the front
ribs should also be well sprung in the
region indicated by No. 12 below the
crops in order that there may be no
marked depression behind the shoul
ders and that the heart girth measured
around parts 12. 14 and 31 may be full.
The location of the twist is at the back
part of the thigh , at about the point
indicated by No. 21. The desirable con
formation here is a thick , full thigh as
viewed i'rom the rear , of good width
and prominence , giving a symmetrical
quarter. The dairy breeds are always
POIKlfi IX THE BEEF FORM.
1. Forehead and face. 2. Muzzle. 3. Nos
trils. 4. Eyes. a. Ears. 0. Poll. 7. Jaws. 8.
Throat , fl. Shoulders. 10. Chest. II. Brisket.
12. Fore ribs. K. Back ribs. 14. Crops. 15.
Loins. 10. Balk. 17. Hooks. 18. Rumps. 19.
Hind quarters. 20. Thighs. 21. Tsvist. 22.
Base of tail. ? ! i. Cod pur.ce. 2-1. Underline. " 5.
Flanks. 20. Logs and hone. " ? . Hocks or
gambrels. 28. Forearms. 29. Neck vein.0. .
Bush of tail. 81. Heart girth. 32. Pin bones.
very deficient in twist , being thin and
what is termed "cat hammed. " This
conformation affords ample room for
the development of a good udder. The
term "fore flank" is not used in this
diagram , but it is represented by the
part just back of the elbow joint which
is located at the ripper line of No. 28.
It also extends back for some distance
to about the point indicated by No. 31.
The top and bottom lines as well as
the side lines should bo nearly parallel
in a model beef animal. In reality ,
however , this is seldom attained in the
lower line. Fullness at both front and
hind flanks and at heart girth (31) ( ) will
insure a good lower line , and fullness
and evenness of neck , crops , back , loin
and rump will give a good upper line.
This is what is meant by good top and
bottom lines. Fullness and evenness of
the parts at 9 , 12 , 13 and 19 will give
a good side line.
Too Early Lambs.
Hothouse products are very expen
sive , says The American Sheep Breeder.
The cost of the fittings and the unseasonable
sonable- time of the work , together with
the limited market for them and in
creased cost of selling them , all together
necessarily so , increase the cost of the
product that less is incurred instead of
prcfit in the rearing of them. Very
surely it is not profitable to have these
early Jambs unless they may be sold at
a largely advanced price , so that the
rearing of them is only to be thought
of as a special business to be prosecuted
under amply favorable circumstances.
We have not heard so much of this
early lamb business of late , and it is to
be reasonably supposed that the demand
for them has been altogether too limited
for the product of them , which has
been unreasonably stimulated by the
highly colored statements of the profits
made in the business. It is nothing
new anyway. The business was begun
30 yeais ago and it haa been growing „
healthfully since then until some own
ers of flocks gave some glowing accounts ti tr
of the profits they made and thus led i
too many others into ill advised at I
tempts to meet a limited demand with
c
unlimited supplies. T
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Keep Sheep In Apple Orchards.
Now that it is safe to talk sheep 1c
1li
without any danger of being laughed li
at we want to say something in favor liI lit
of getting a few sheep and keeping I
them in the apple orchard. They will t
eat the small bitter apples that the pigswill
V
will not touch and if fed a gill of oats
f
each per day they will after a summer
in the orchard come out fat in the fall ,
besides leaving their mannre evenly
distributed under the trees. Care should
be taken to prevent the pasture getting \
too poor , so the sheep do not get enough j
to eat. If they are at all starved , the j
sheep will gnaw at the apple bark , and c
once they get a taste of this it will
never be safe to put them in an apple
orchard again. It is not best anyway c
to place them in young and rapidly ctl ca
growing orchards , whose bark is always tl
tender. The rough bark of old bearing tlc
orchards does not tempt them unless { ]
they find sap sprouts growing out of it. t :
jston Cultivator.
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Good Horses Wanted. : * ,
It is probable that few men except ; e
those engaged in handling horses about j
the markets and in the centers of horse
raising industry have realized the smallness -
ness of the number of suitable breeding
e >
stock to provide for the rapidly increas- t ]
ing demand for really good horses. The ' ci
shortage is in all classes except those w
that are not fit for any demand. Not , h
only is there a deficiency of good brood j fa
rnares for producing the fashionable v
coach horses , roadsters and saddlers , j b
but the draft scock of the country is in ' d
the same condition. Live Stock. ' v ?
SHEEP SCAB.
Mnch Dipping ; Needed lo Kill the
I'uraisteiit Parasite.
Th ° persistence in existence of the
lowest kind of animal life is amazing
to the student of natural history , says
The American Sheep Breeder. There is
no better example of this than the sheep
f-cab insect. This hateful parasite breeds
from spring to the fall and as long as
the weather is warm. It begins business
early in the spring as soon as the sun's
warmth wakens it from its winter's
sleep. And the only remedy is to heap-
plied immediately , before the pest lays
its ecrj s. The dip is apt to miss the eggs
of the mite and leave them unharmed ;
thus a repetition of the dipping is in
dispensable for safety. Indeed the wisest
plan is to dip as a precaution sigainst
possible infection , just as one insures
his life , or his house , against pcssible
accidents. It pays to dip a flock if only ,
for the good it does to the skin of the
she.-p and the benefit to the fleece. The i
safe plan is to dip as soon as one has a i
few warm days and again after shear
ing. Indeed it maybe thought that this
precaution should be enforced by law
on the unwise shepherd who is too
careless of his own good and needs
something stronger than advice to do
what his own interests might suggest.
Nor is a single dipping sufficient at one
time. These insects increase so rapidly
that the dipping should be repeated be
tween five and ten da's from the pre
vious one. The eggs deposited on a sheep
will hatch out in ten days , and the eggs
of these young mites will be deposited
on the tenth or eleventh day after their
birth. Thus the only safety of the flock
consists in constant vigilance and re
peated dipping at short intervals when
a flock is really infested. As a means of
precaution , however , it is safe to have
two dippings in the year in the spring
immediately after shearing and again
in the fall before the cold weather ar
rives , even when the > heep are clean
and free apparently from the disease.
lllaolc Cattle.
The narc.s Galloway and Angus cat
tle are synonymous to a great many
peoplf wli. ) r.re not up in the history of
the1 two breeds , says the Kansas City
Telegr.ini. The strong similarity of
thesu two well known families makes it
difficult for the ordinary cattleman to
distinguish one from the other or "tell
which is the other. ' ' An old time breed
er of both kinds says : "Both the Gal-
lowny and the Polled Angus are of
Scotch origin , which may be read up at
leisure. Each breed has its strong
points , and ranks side by side in many
points of merit. Take down the points
as I give them to you : The Galloways
are- black , hornless , low on the ground ,
heavy set , short legged , long hair , slow
maturing and very hardy. They are
great rustlers , and if I were stocking
up a range I would use Galloway bulls.
The Angus cattle are black , hornless ,
short hair , medium length of leg , early
maturing and as great beef producers as
an } ' animal grown. ' ' In certain sections
of the country , especially around Kan
sas City , the Galloway is grown more
or is better known than the Polled An
gus. Pocsibly this is due to the fact
that the Galloway men have shown
more diligence in setting forth the
strong points of their favorite breed.
That there is a difference in the two
breeds cannot be disputed , but the good
points are many in each. The Shorthorn
and the Hereford men , especially the
latter , have been very energetic during
the past few years in bringing the
white face into popularity by the con
stant and persistent use of printer's ink.
Notwithstanding tihs popularity of the
Hereford , the Galloway will always be
sought after. He carries his overcoat
with him , i * a great rustler and is a
good beefmaker , and is especially fitted
for the average range.
Cure For llotv Cholera.
J. W. Davis , a farmer and hog breed
er of Lamoille , Ills. , says there is no
need of farmers having hog cholera
among their hogs. He has never had
any at least not since he found out
the car.se and how to remove it. He
says hog cholera is caused by fever and
the fever by worms , which two teaspoonfuls -
spoonfuls of saleratus dissolved in wa
ter and poured into the slop will re
move. When you notice a hog not do
ing well , when it refuses its feed and
begins to look scrawny and sick , the
chances are 9S ) to 100 it has worms. If
you kill one and examine it. yon will
find ; a hunch of worms in its intestines
perhaps as large as your fist. These
cause constipation and fever , which kill
hozs. ; Oftentimes the v orms will eat
through the intestines into the stomach.
Dissolved saleratus in proportion of two
teaspoonfuls to every gallon of water
will kill the worms , and almost imme-
diatelj ] * your hogs will begin to thrive
and look well again. Warsaw Bulletin.
Breeding Fine Horses.
The breeding of fine horses , which
has been largely neglected for a num
ber of years , is receiving a wonderful
impetus : this season. Farmers have
commenced to realize that the world of
commerce cannot be moved without
good horses , and the increasing domestic
consumption and foreign demand must
advance the price of horses suitable for
the markets. Main- communities are
commencing to take active interest in
the subject , and in many local organiza
tions are formed for the purpose of pur
chasing prime breeding animals. This
a movement in the right direction , as
the day for scrub stock is past. West
ern Plowman.
Salting : Cattle. ;
David Arnold of Nicholasville , Ky. .
who is a farmer of experience , says cat
tle should never be salted in extremely tl
cold weather. It gives them a thirst for
water , which they often drink from a
hole cut in the ice. The water , being ex si
tremely cold , chills the stomach and siT
very often results in death. IMr. Arnold T
believes this is why so many cattle have
ri
3ied in parts of the country the past
winter. Jessamine Journal.
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GEO. G. SOHWALM , PROP.
This market always kcr p : i suppljof
oflAfoiE
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