Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-22
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Heaviest Run of Cattle This Season
at Liberty Yards.
BULK OF RECEIPTS COMMON GRADE
Prime Beeves in Demand at Old Rates.
Common Are Slow Sale.
SHEEP AND HOGS ON THE DOWN DRIFT
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH I
WEDNESDAY Aucnsf ol 1850

WEDNESDAY. August Il, 1888.
The run of cattle for the week has been
the largest of the season, the total being be-
tween 140 and 150 carloads In the receipts
was a very small proportion of prime cattle.
A liberal estimate would not place the sup
ply OF prime beeves above ten loads. A few
loads were on the market which were one
half or more primes, but among them were
enough common cattle to very materially lower
the grade.
There were in the supplies about 25 loads of
what drovers term common to fairly good heavy
steers weighing from l,S0O to ], l,400pounds. The
remaining ITO loads were, as one drover ex-
pressed it, rubbish" which commission men
have been struggling at a disadvantage to dis
pose of since Monday morning. These con-
sisted of stays, dry cows, thin heifers and
scalawag stock of every description. 1t is
doubtful if a meaner lot of stock was ever
dumped into the Liberty yards. Many of this
lOw-class stock were unsold at noon to-day, and
prospects are that sales can only be made at
ruinous prices. The roughest sold as low as
l19c per pound.
The range on good heavy steers the best that
were on the market, was 81 90 to 81 80. There
were few primes which would have brought
one-quarter more il they had not been in bad
company. There was not single car flied
with prime cattle. Common to fair heavy
beeves. 1900 to 400 pounds. sold at range of
S3 90 to 81 l2H. A few loads which were put
under limit by shippers, failing to bring the
prices, were sent East in first hands, and prob
ably went further to fare worse. The shippers
would have done better to have sold at LIB
erty.
Good butchering stock held up fairly well to
last weeks prices. and sold readily The mar
ket for common grades is seldom as mean as It
has been this week, and sales are only made oy
liberal concessions to buyers.
The value of good goods has never been more
clearly demonstrated than at the Liberty stock
yards this week. While tie genuine has been
at premium, the scalawag has been at dis
count
Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts have been 10 to 10 loads larger than
fast week, and quality is reported below par.
Unfavorable advices from the East on top of a
heavy run and low quality of receipts has had
a demoralizing influence on markets. and
prices are l5Q25c per 100 pounds lower than last
week. All drovers agree in the statement that
sheep supplies the past week or two are gener-
ally of inferior quality.
Lambs declined still more than sheep, and
some place the decline as large as 35c per 100
pounds.
Hogs.
Markets were slow on Monday and have been
stagnant ever since Prices are a shade lower
than last week. The prospect for low-pnced
hogs the coming fall was never better. The
price now is &c lower than it was this time a
year ago, and the outlook for the corn crop is
steadily improving. An East Liberty stock
man, who has just returned from a trip through
Central and Southwestern Ohio. reports that
he has seldom seen the corn crop as promising
at this time of the year as it now is in that Sec
tion.
If early frosts do not prevent, the corn crop
in Central and Southwestern Ohio will surpass
that of last year. Similar reports come from
the great corn belts of Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa, and the bulls who have been banking on
a short corn crop are doomed to disappointment
unless early frosts come to their rescue. In
Northern Ohio the corn prospect is not SO
nd N
well-drained farms of the Western Reservs >
Will furnish average yield of corn.
1t is as nearly certain anything future can
be that we are to have cheap corn and hogs the
coming season