GROWING AS GOAT MARKET.
Kansas City Received 35,596 of
These Animals in May.
Kansas City has long been one of the big sheep markets of the West and in the past has handled many goats, though nothing in former seasons has approached this season's receipts. With the goat interests of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona prosperous, and this being the natural market for these sections, the goat market here has always been a good one. There has been a disposition to encourage the trade, but no one dared anticipate the big gain in receipts that has taken place this spring.
H. B. Adair, the government veterinary inspector at the stock yards here, reports the inspecting at the yards during May of 35,596 goats, or 10,941 more than ever before inspected here during a single month, the biggest month's receipts ever before received being May, 1907, when they were 24,655. This makes Kansas City the greatest goat market of the country.
