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are fed in transit at that market. Sioux City and Denver like- 

 wise are feeding points for cattle enroute to northern ranges, and 

 thus record large percentages of cattle shipped. Of the larger 

 markets Chicago shows the greatest proportion of shipments to 

 receipts, due to the number of feeding cattle handled and the 

 extensive movement of fat cattle from that market to eastern 

 cities that formerly included many export cattle. Kansas City 

 also ships over two-fifths of the cattle it receives. In general, 

 the proportion of shipments to receipts at the different markets 

 varies from one-third to two-thirds. 



Referring to the last two columns, it is observed that Kansas 

 City outrivals all other centers as a feeder market, both as to the 

 actual number shipped out and the proportion of feeders to total 

 shipments. Omaha occupies second place and is regarded by corn- 

 belt cattlemen as a rapidly growing feeder point. The excess of 

 feeders over total shipments at Omaha is due to the large number 

 of feeding cattle driven out of the yards and not counted in ship- 

 ments: As to the actual number of feeders shipped, Chicago ranks 

 close to Omaha, altho less than one-third of the cattle shipped from 

 Chicago are feeders. The high percentage of feeders in ship- 

 ments from Sioux City, Denver, and St. Paul consists largely of 

 cattle fed in transit, as explained above. 



The source of receipts and the destination of shipments are re- 

 corded at the Kansas City market. In 1907, 59 percent of the 

 cattle were consigned from Kansas, 15 percent from Oklahoma, 

 ii percent from Missouri, 6 percent from Texas, and the re- 

 mainder principally from Colorado, New Mexico, and Nebraska. 

 Of the cattle shipped in the same year, 12 percent went to Missouri 

 (besides St. Louis), 10 percent to Kansas, 5 percent to Illinois (be- 

 sides Chicago), 4 percent to Iowa, 15 percent to various large mar- 

 kets, and the remainder to various other states. 1 



Export trade accounts for the comparatively small net receipts 

 of some of the eastern markets whose gross receipts are large. 

 The importance of these markets as points of export is illustrated 

 by the figures for the year ending June 30, 1908, when the cities 

 of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland (Maine), 

 and Detroit, named in order of their importance, exported 299,000 

 cattle. 2 In 1910 the export trade from these same cities was 

 much lighter, totaling 122,000 cattle, or only 40 percent of the ex- 

 port trade in 



LOCAL SALE AND SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE 



Altho cattle feeders are primarily interested in and affected by 

 the large central markets, it should be borne in mind that a com- 



1U. S. Dept. of Agr., Yearbook 1908, p. 234. 

 2U. S. Dept. of Agr., Yearbook 1908, p. 236. 

 3 Commerce and Navigation of the U. S., 1910, p. 776. 





