Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
LIVE STOCK REVIEW.
Last Weeks Advance on Cattle 9t
Liberty Has Been Lost,
BECAUSE OF TOO LARGE OFFERINGS
Good, Light Butchering Beeves Suffer Least
From Decline.
SHEEP ARE STEADY AND SWINE DULL
OFFICE OF PITTsBURe DISPATCH,
WEDNESDAY. May g, 1880

OFFICE OF PrrTsRURe DISPATCH
WEDNESDAY, May Is 1870
Receipts o! cattle last week were, in all, ,67
carloads, and this week 100 or more. Last
week, in addition to light run, the quality
of offerings was considerably above the late
average. As q result, markets were very ac-
tive at an advance of 15@25c per cvt over
prices that have prevailed of late.
A leading drover said yesterday: East
Liberty cattle markets were better last week
than any place in the country"
The advance last week was lost this week
BY reason of large receipts and lower average
in quality. Markets opened on Monday very
slow at 15@25c lower prices than the previ-
GUS Monday. Common and low grades suf-
fered most from the drop. Good
butchering beeves weighing LOO to l,SOO ms
sold about l0c below last weeks prices. The
main sources of supply this week were Chicago
ST. LOUIS and Omaha. About two-thirus were
from Chicago. There were few punches of
country cattle on the market The highest
price obtained was 81 IS, and very few reached
this figure. Primes, of which there were none
offered, would have brought SIS l6 There were
no stockers or feeders on the market, but sew
eral punches of light butcher cattle, weighing
about OPS rs each, were bought for feeding
purposes at 81 A. The same grade was slow
year ago at 81 per hundred below this figure.
Everything Sold Quickly.
This morning everything was sold. Calves
were in light supply and demand was light
There were not more than 800 head on the mar
ket Tuesday against double that number the
week before. The top price was IS 10. and
there were very few that reached this figure.
Market was dull this morning at sc per pound.
The total offerings OF sheep and lambs for
the week have been about 80 loads. On Mon
day with IA loads for sale markets were steady
at closing prices of last week for choice
wethers. YearlIngs and lambs were not SO
strong. Light lambs and yearlings have been
poor stock all the week, while good
heavy we1ers have found ready sale
week. This morning there we're six loads Of
sheep and lambs on the market and trade was
quiet at the following range OF prices: " eth
ers. q IS to SIS 60; yearlings, S. 90 to IS SO;
lambs to Sc per pound. The hog market
started slow on Monday with 81 90 to 81 20 as
the range, and has been dropping all the week.
The offerings on Monday were IS loads, and to-
day Is loads. Market was slow this morning
with 81 10 as the top price.
AT Chicago this morning top prices were the
same as at East Liberty, having recovered 10
week.
Mccall & Co.'S Weekly Review.
The supply of cattle is liberal; market slow
at decline of l0Q20c per cwt; market closed
slow with several lots remaining unsold.
We give the following as ruling prices:
Prime, 1900 to LOCO lbs, 81 SO@5 Is: good, loo
to l400 lbs 81 60@4 80; butcher grades, !, 100 to
l,S00 lbs 81 30G4 40: common to fair LOCO to
LOO MS, 81 00@4 so: mixed lots, COWS, heifers
and bulls, 81 5OG3 40; fresh cows and springers
slow at SO 0OGS5 90 per head, most sales at
SIS 00G3O CO.
The receipts of hogs were liberal. and the
market is slow at the following quotations:
Philadelphias, 81 1904 Is; best Workers. S3 95
@ Us; common TO fair, s. SOGS 80; roughs
S. 0063 IS
The receipts of sheep this week were light
and the market active at an advance of 1062Oc
per cwt We quote sales as follows: Prime
OHIO and Indiana wethers. weighing here los
TO Ito bs S. 3OQl5 so: good. 80 TO 100 MS.
s. l5@5 30; fair to good mixed. 70 to so MS
81 5O84 20; good yearlings, 70 to so MS, S. 5Ua
spring lambs. 6Q7c p n. Receipts of veal
calves liberal; marker firm at an advance of
l5G25c per cwt over last weeks prices.