The Nebraska State Wool-Growers’ Association will hold its annual meeting on Friday, February 15, at the Senate Chamber, in Lincoln. Every sheep man in the State should be present, as matters of great importance to this large industry will come under discussion, and especially the present unsatisfactory state of the tariff. So writes the President, Mr. P. Jansen, of Fairbury, Neb.
The collective shipments of live stock and fresh meat from the United States and Canada landed at Liverpool during the first week of the present year amounted to 861 cattle, 850 sheep, 100 hogs, 7,598 quarters of beef, and 1,906 carcasses of mutton. The figures show a large falling off in the arrivals of both live stock and fresh meat when compared with the imports of later weeks of the preceding year, more particularly with regard to live stock, which arrived in very small numbers.
Chicago Evening Journal: “The prospect is that the little ring of political office-seekers who want Congress to make places for themselves as “inspectors” of cattle and hogs will succeed in defeating the proposed measure of retaliation against those European countries which, without good reason, are discriminating against imported American pork-products. The producers of and dealers in Western cattle and hogs should take instant measures to head off Sanders and his gang.”
The flock belonging to the estate of the late K. W. Gentry, of Sedalia, Mo., was disposed of at auction last week. The unregistered Merinos were disposed of in lots of fifty at from $3.25 to $4.50 per head. Grade lambs brought $2 to $3. The registered Merinos were sold by sixes and sevens at from $17.50 to $60 each. The best rams brought from $20 to $101, and a few of the ram lambs sold at from $18 to $46. Samuel Jewett bought largely. On the same occasion the Berkshire hogs sold at from $20 to $43; one pair of mules brought $205; the yearling Jersey bull Elmwood Favorite, bred by Col. C. F. Mills, Springfield, Ill., sold for $165.
The Inter-State Short-horn Breeders’ Association held a meeting at Kansas City last week to adopt rules to govern the sales of breeding Short-horns at the next Fat Stock Show in that city. After considerable discussion it was resolved that the pedigrees be submitted and cattle ready for examination on or before the first day of June, and that the committee be requested to visit and inspect, some time in June, the cattle offered for the sale. The executive committee was given plenary powers in regard to deciding what animals are to be admitted in the sale, and authorized to have the catalogues compiled and published. So far over one hundred head have been entered for sale.