Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — Stockers and Feeders Can Be Bought in Indianapolis. [ARTICLE]

Stockers and Feeders Can Be Bought in Indianapolis.

The Union Stock Yards of Indianapolis are the only ones east of the Mississippi rivor that have never been closed on account of the foot and mouth or other infectious diseases and this is giving the stockmen operating at those yard's an opportunity to boost their buriness as never before. It is a fact that practically all the business from Jasper county has

for years gone to Chicago and practically all the feeders and dtockens have been purchased there, but the Chicago yards are closed against handling these and it would be a good idea for stockmen to visit the Indianapolis yards and look over the animals there. Up to September Ist over 14,000 head, some 500 cars, had been purchased at the Indianapolis yards and shipped to country points. And now from 3,000 to 5,000 head are being received per week. Moat of them are redsand roans of fair to good quality, weighing from 600 to 1050 pounds, selling from $6.50 to $8.15 Most of them are from 700 to 900 and sell from $7.25 to $7.85. These cattle are coming from the Dakotas and the northwest and a good number coming from Canada. They are spoken of as_» “good doing, stretchy, goodboned, loose-hided, pound-making kind that do well in this climate.” There is a world of feed tributary to the Indianapolis market and even with the demand there is a supply in sight able to care for it The Chicago market is~stil lclosed and is likely to be for some time yet and it will be very natural for Jasper county feeders to seek the Indianapolis market A newspaper in St Paul, Minn., that picturesque old southern city, refers t» Montclair, N. J., as '‘the most exclusive place in all New England.” See America first—Springfield Republican.