Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1908 — D. S. Makeever Hits Good Market. [ARTICLE]

D. S. Makeever Hits Good Market.

D. S. Makeever, although it sounds better for those who have known him all their lives to call him Swaaey, is one of the best stockmen in the county and during previous years he has always come close to getting his cattle into the Union Stock yards when the good prices were prevailing. On Monday of this week he had 48 head, three car loads, on the market and he got the excellent price of 37.50 per hundred for them. This beats the price Charley Moody, another good stockman, got a week or so before, by ten cents a hundred. Swaney’s cattle averaged a little more than SIOO each. This is a tolerably good price for the farmer to 'get -during a republican panic, andl contrasts materially with the prices paid during the Cleveland panic in the nineties. Corn, by the way, is worth from 55 to 65 cents a bushel, uwhile during the democratic real panic of the Cleveland free trade and smokeless factory days, corn was sold for 12. and 13 cents. There’s a difference, and the corn growers can see it. So can the cattle feeder.