mule market; third in lumber, flour, poultry, and eggs,
in the volume of our telegraph business, and in auto-
mobile sales. And, of course, you probably know that
we lead in the sale of agricultural implements and in
stockers and feeders."

At that my companion, who, because he resided for a
long time in Albany, N. Y., prides himself upon his
knowledge of farming, broke in.

"I suppose," said he, "that instead of drawing stock-
ers and feeders with horses, they use gasoline motors
nowadays?"

"Oh, no," said the Kansas City man, "they walk."

"Walk?" exclaimed my companion. "They have
made an advance in agricultural implements since my
day if they have succeeded in making them walk!"

"I'm not speaking of agricultural implements," said
our informant. "I'm speaking of stockers and feed-
ers."

"What are stockers and feeders?" I asked.

"Cattle," he said. "There are three kinds of cattle
marketed here; first, fat cattle, for slaughter; second,
stockers, which are young cows used for stocking farms
and ranches; third, feeders, or grassfed steers, which
are sold to be fattened on grain, for killing. In stockers
and feeders we lead the world; in fat cattle we are sec-
ond only to Chicago."

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