Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 



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Movement of stockers and feeders. — The U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture has reported the movement of stocker and feeder cattle 

 and calves for the five months, August 1 to December 31, from 43 

 markets into the corn-belt states, and from 67 markets into all states. 

 These were compiled from the records of the Bureau of Animal Industry- 

 shipping permits, and are as follows: 



Movement of stockers and feeders from central markets 



Principal feeder markets. — The following table compiled from re- 

 ports of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics gives the loca- 

 tion and rank of the principal stocker and feeder markets and the 

 numbers shipped during three years: 



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 7. 

 8. 

 9. 

 10. 



Shipments of stocker and feeder cattle and calves from leading inarkets 



Markets 1922 



Kansas City 1,151,256 



Omaha 621,124 



Chicago 408,868 



Denver 413,138 



St. Paul 438,933 



Sioux City 334,719 



St. Louis 274,710 



Fort Worth 225,130 



Wichita 202,447 



St. Joseph 176,041 



Totals 4,246,366 



2,938,723 



3,260,178 



Most of these markets lie on the margin between the western range 

 and the corn belt. They handled 86 per cent of the total number of 

 stockers and feeders shipped from 68 markets in 1922. The four 

 Missouri river markets, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha, and Sioux 

 City, handled over 45 per cent of the stock and feeding cattle shipped 

 from 68 markets in 1922. In 1921, 12 markets handled 84.6 per cent 

 of the total from 67 markets, and from these 12 markets over two- 

 thirds of the shipments went to 5 corn-belt states, Iowa, Nebraska, 

 Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. ^ Lancaster, Pa., is the leading eastern 

 feeder cattle market. 



Sorting feeder cattle. — Dealers or traders at large market centers 

 buy carloads of mixed cattle suitable for stockers and feeders and 

 drive them to their pens in the feeder division of the yards and sort 



lU. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1921, pp. 284, 285, 287. 



