Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-05
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Leading Features Of Markets at the
East Liberty Yards.
QUALITY OF CATTLE BELOW PAR.
Smooth, Light Butcher Stock and Exporters
Very Active.
SHEEP AND HOGS In GOOD DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, /
WEDNESDAY. December 4. lSS9.

WEDNESDAY, December 4 1859.
The run of cattle this week was about five
loads larger than last week. Total receipts
were 125 carloads. The quality of cattle
received this week was below that of last
week-and, in fact below anything on the
market of late. There were no strictly
prime cattle in the offerings. A few loads
of good cattle from Ohio, weighing shade
above /, 500 pounds, were sold at S4 30, this
being the best price obtained. There were re-
ports that 81 IS was paid for some LOADS, out
from the best information that could be mad
s. 30 was the outside figure. The supply Oh
small, well-fatted, light butcher stock was
scarcely up 20 demand and this grade was
strong at full last weeks prices.
Few Export Cattle Here.
Demand was good for export cattle, but there
were very few offered. There was ready sale
for all export and light, tidy butcher cattle
that were offered. Of the latter grade
there were not enough TO go round Low grades
and stockers of all kinds were slow sale, and
touched their lowest point this season. There
were some 20 loads of stockers on the market,
mostly of inferior grades and they were only
disposed of at ruinous prices to the shipper.
Some sold as low as 81 so and from that up TO
& p was the range for inferior STOCK. "a 4 ne ne
range for better grades of stockers was z740
SIC. The season for stockers is practlcally
over, and buyers are unwilling to invest IN TINS
grade of cattle unless on very liberal con-
cessiOns. For a few weeks after mar
vest demand for stockers was gooo
They were wanted by farmers OF adjoining
counties to eat up grass and stubble Whlch
abounded In the past few weeks the demand
has greatly fallen on, and only the Deteer
The demand for stockers has declined % per
cent at least in the past month.
Sheep and Lambs.
Supply did not vary materially from last
week. There was an improvement in markets,
but no advance in prices. Some dealers re-
ported slight advance on last weeks prices.
but the only improvement was more active
markets All choice stock was readily taken at
full last weeks prices.
Eastern buvers complain that Pittsburg
markets for sheep and lambs have of late been
relatively too high as compared with prices at
New York and Philadelphia. Our Liberty
stockmen claim that prices here are IN 1alr
proportion with rates at Chicago and St Louis.
Hogs at sitter Prices.
The run of hogs this week has been consider
ably lighter than last and prices have stiffened.
The improvement, however, has not been up to
what was expected. The price of Philadelphias
this morning ranged from So 80 to S4 90 per
hundred. Last week prices dropped 25c below
these figures and hogs sold at Liberty as
low as at Chicago. Prices have been fairly main
tanned at East Liberty since the beginning OF
the week, notwithstanding Tuesdays big run
of inferior stock. Receipts at Chicago to-day
were 30 900 head and yesterday $4,000. and the
outside price there for selected packing hogs
has been So 65G3 20 for several days past.
One of our leading packers said to-day that
his firm had bought hogs at Chicago this week
at the lowest price this season, and this was
equivalent to saying that they were lower now
than for many years past
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The supply of cattle has been only fair, but
mostly of an inferior quality. Good to prime
butcher grades were in demand at strong
prices. Heavy fat shippers ruled slow at last
weeks prices. Good feeders weighing !, 100 to
L3O0 pounds were in demand at strong prices,
while it was almost impossible to sell light
stoczers and feeders, this grade reaching the
lowest prices of the season. We quote the fol-
lowing as ruling prices: Prime, LS0O to l60O
pounds. s. 25@4 so: good, 200 to l.4OO pounds,
s. 1904 10; good butcher grades, LOCO to 100
J, 800 pounds, 50 I5Q3 40; good feeders,
LOO TO 1,300 pounds, So 40G3 65; good feeders,
300 to LOO pounds. 81 SOG3 25: common
sSoeks5s s. Sd5 zo and p teeoer % to se9 g5 pounds as
fresh COWS and springers, SIS OOQ45 90 per
head
The receipts of hogs to-day are fully equal to,
the demand and the market is slow az the
following quotations: Philadelphias So 9O@
4 900; best Workers, So S0@3 IS; common
Workers. s5 as; roughs, 81 1908 50
The receipts of sheep this week were fair
and the market active at unchanged prices
We quote sales as follows: Prime Ohio and
Indiana wethers, weighing here ITO to l20
pounds s. S5G5 .; good. 80 to 100 pounds 81 so
34 IS; fair to good mixed, rs to so pounds,
s. 6O03 80 : good yearlings, rs to so pounds
81 25a4 70; fair to good, so to so pounds, So SO
"a Is; good lambs. IS OO66 90; veal calves. ITO
70 12O pounds, IS OO96 25i heavy calves. 81 90
as 25