Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-14
BIG PORK SHRINKAGE
It is 25 Per Cent Greater This Season
Than is Customary,
A LACK OF OIL In ALL THE CORN
Is What Makes the Hogs So Very Lean and
Improbable.
THE RUN OF STOCK AT EAST LIBERTY.
A LACK OF OIL In ALL THE CORN
THE RUN OF STOCK AT EAST LIBERTY.
OFFICE OF PITrsBURG DISPATCH I
THURSDAY, February l2 1890.

THURSDAY. February Is 1890. !
A Liberty stockman reports that the
Shrinkage in hogs this season is % per cent
the inferior quality of corn. Said he: "The
corn crop was large in Ohio and Indiana
last season, but it lacked the oil which goes
to put fat on to the ribs of porkers. A
shrinkage of eight or nine pounds on the
weight of hog has been considered fair
average in former seasons. This year the
shrinkage is 10 to II pounds, and in some cases
has reached IA pounds. The hogs which come
from the tarthest West show the least shrink
age, the corn in that section did not suffer so
much from wet, soft weather as in Ohio and In
diana. 1t is not only true of the corn crop that
quality is below the average this season, but
hay is in the same boat. Both corn and hay are
much below average in the elements of nutri-
ton"
Entirely COuflrmatOry.
In confirmation Of the views given by the
stockmen quoted above, dealers IN grain and
hay report that it is next to impossible to Sc
cure ohbice stock. One of our largest retailers
in this line said, within few days at the Grain
Exchange: II doubt if in the 26 carloads Of
hay received in this market to-day there was q
single carload of really choice stock. 1t is next
70 impossible TO procure frst-class corn or hay
this season, Somehow the bulk of the stun on
the market Of late Is far below par. Anything
strictly choice goes OF like hot cakes. In my
view the depression Of grain and hay markets
of late is due as much to the low quality OF the
offerings as to the large volume"
Just as Scarce in Ohio.
A Liberty suockman. who has spent the past
week in Northwestern Ohio, said to-day: Il
have seldom known that section of the country
as well cleaned mp in the lines of grain and live
stock as it is at this time From Crestline to the
Indiana line farmers have sold up their stuff
very close. The corn and hay through that re-
gtOn is unusually poor, owing to continuous
rains in the latter part Of last summer and
through the fall. R2isers of live stock have for
the most part disposed of everything. North
western Ohio has not been as bare in this line
for many year IS it is now. Tho drover will
hnd very poor pickings in that section for
months to come"
East Liberty'a Review.
The Liberty live stock markets for the week
show an advance on hogs and good butchering
cattle, and no change on sheep and lambs.
The advance on cattle was due to light re-
ceipts, the run being little more than one-balf
the average for few weeks past
Hogs havr commanded relatively better
prices here than at Chicago this week The
top price at Chicago this morning was 81 05 per
cWt. At East Liberty 81 45 was the best price
our packers could find, and the hogs offered for
s. IS were scarcely up in quality to those at
Chicago for 81 o. A number of the regular
East Liberty buyers have this week gone to
the Western metropolis for their supplies in
here
Following is the report of the weeks trans
actions at the East Liberty Stock Yards:
RECKIPTs.