Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
MEAT ON THE HOOP.
Full Returns of Weeks Transactions
at Liberty Yards.
CATTLE DEPRESSED AND LOWER.
Sheep and Lambs Follow Suit, Supplies
Being Above Wants.
HOGS STEADY--PR0DUCTS DROPPING.
CATTLE DEPRESSED AND LOWER.
HOGS STEADY-PRODUCTS DROPPING.
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY, May 2 1889.


With returns all in it seems that local
cattle receipts were 300 head less this week
than last and through receipts 240 more. In
This weeks receipts were ten loads Of stock
ers from Chicago.
There were few primes in the market. The
ontside weight was little above /, 400 pounds.
Markets were sluggish and at last accounts a
number ofloads were unsold. There is a differ
ence of opinion among stockmen as to decline.
The general view is that prices are off from l5c
to 20c from rates of last week. Some dealers
hold that fine, smooth butcher stock, eikhing
about LOO pounds, hold up to prices of week
ago. The beeves which meet the wants of the
local butcher trade suffer least from the de-
moralization of the cattle markets
The steer that is wanted by our local butchers
of late months must not pass beyond the 4c
line, Smooth, well-fatted stock, weighing from
LOO to .250, appear to meet the general de-
mands of our home trade, and hence for this
line of cattle markets hold up best. 1t is never
theless the fact that even this grade has SUI
fered In measure from the general depression
of cattle markets.
The best price obtained for cattle this week
at Liberty was 81 30 Good butcher cattle, from
l,20O to l 400, sold at prices ranging from s. 81
TO 81 10. Receipts of calves show no decline.
The total this week so far was L3O0 head. The
outside prize for calves was 4szc, and this was
only obtained for few choice ones which were
no index to the market. The general range was
SIC TO 116c, and at these figures markets were
in favor of BUYERS.
Sheep and Lambs.
With receipts more than 5000 head less than
last week, it would be supposed that markets
would be firm. The facts are the reverse.
This seasons live stock trade is an exception
to all rules and experiences. In tie face of
diminished supplies markets have been slow
all the week at full quarters reduction from
prices of last week.
Prime wethers weighing 40 pounds were sold
at s. 35 The outside price for spring lambs
was &C, and il required very fancy animal to
bring th is figure. As with cattle so with sheep
and lambs-markets have been depressed all the
week
Hogs.
At Chicago to-day hogs are a trif1e higher
than yesterday. The price there for tops is
81 so. At Liberty receipts have been light all
the week. and markets are stronger to-day
than they were on Monday. There was little
trouble selling all that came to hand, with IS 90
as the price of tops.
The situation of trade for hog products has
few elements that are encouraging Trade
shows dropping tendencies all along the line.
The trouble all the past season has been that
the prices of hogs were too high to furnish any
margin TO pork packers. In almost all provision
lines margins are so narrow to the packer that.
except on special cuts he has been working for
glory more than profit
Following is the report of the weeks trans
actions at the East Liberty Stockyards;
RECEIPTS.