Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-28
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Leading Features of Markets at the
East Liberty Yards.
ALL GRADES OFCATTLE ARELOWER
Hogs Touch the Lowest Point for Years
and Still Are Weak.
SHEEP AND LAMBS In LIGHT SUPPLY
ALL GRADES OFCATTLE ARELOWER
SHEEP AND LAMBS IN LIGHT SUPPLY
OFFICE OF PITrsBURe DISPATCH, I
WEDNESDAY. November n. 1855.

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WEDNESDAY. November n. 1859.
Receipts of cattle on Monday were 110
loads, against s. the previous Monday.
About five loads have been received since
Monday, making a total for the week of 25
loads more than last week. In the receipts
there were no strictly prime cattle, but
about ten loads of good shippers from Ohio,
weighing from !, 400 to /, $50 pounds There
were none on the market which reached
1,5OO pounds. The range for these better
grades of cattle was 81 O0(94 80, and only a
few reached the latter figure The range for
the same grade last week was s. 1904 40.
All grades of cattle are of 5@10c from last
weeks prices. There were no export buy
ers. The good cattle were mostly sold for
shipment to New York.
What lie Wanted Here.
Our local butcher trade calls for smooth,
tidy stock. weighing from 100 70 1900
pounds. All above the latter figure have
been slow sale all this season. The great
sbrinkage in receipts fer local trade OF late
is due mainly to the diminishing demand
for stockers. Buyers who were good for 10
or Is loads of this class of cattle month
ago, now call fo4 but or loads. Said
q leading stoekman this morning: 1T was
easier to place $50 loads of cattle month ago
than it is to place 100 loads now. The same
number of buyers will take so loads less now
than then. The reason is that the season is
nearly over. After harvest for a few weeks
grass was good, and farmers were looking out
for stockers. Now they want something that
is ready to go right into the stable and about
all that are wanted are cheap poor cattle
which we call straw trampeTs."
Weak Market for Hogs.
Mondays receipts were large and markets
were weak at range of So 1908 50 for Workers
and Philadelphlas. There has been no recovery
from the slowness with which markets opened
at the beginning of the week. Prices
were as low at East Liberty as at Chicago for
a day or two past In fact markets were stead
ier at the latter place than either here or Gin
cinnati on Monday.
Advices from Chicago to one of our promi-
nent packers this morning are that receipts
there to-day were the largest this year, being
in all 5000 head. The outside price for the
best at Chicago this morning was 81 65G4 20.
There is general feeling that bottom is not
yet reached and that hogs will settle to basis
of So so for the best packers.
A leading stockman of East Liberty said this
morning that with the prices Of lard and bacon,
which have ruled of late IS 90 per cwt. is suff-
eie1t 70 pay t9T Tor hogs SaIa , ne; @ a. nave been s
proaucts must go up or hogs come down. 1t
seems that hogs are coming down, and they
have not touched bottom vetn
ProFlsions are fairly steady at the old rates
A year ago at this time hogs were selling at
East Liberty for IS so per cwt
sheep and Lambs.
The run has been very light all this week
Receipts were scarcely large enough to make
market Choice stock is higher, chiefly be-
cause of its great scarcity. Shippers were wise
in Withholding stock this week when turkey
takes the precedence of staple meats Prime
Western wethers readily brought 20c per 100