Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
LIVE STOCK REVIEW.
cattle Markets al East Liberty Show
Weakening Tendencies,
OWINGTOLOW GRADE OF RECEIPTS.
sheep and Lambs in Very Light Supply
and Little Higher.
RUSH OF POOR HOGS WEAKENs TRADE

OFFICE OF THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH
WEDNESDAY. March 26, 1890. (
Receipts of cattle for the week, about rs
loads, against 20 loads last week, and as fol
the previous week. Markets opened strong
on Monday morning at prices of the previou,
Monday. and nice. tidy butcher cattle were
a shade higher. Prime 1000 pound steers
would have quickly brought 81 1906 90 pei
cwt, but in the language of a leading
drover, were as scarce as hen teeth. On
Tuesday about ten loads of mixed cattle, oi
all grades and sizes, excepting primes, were
dumped onto the market, and the result was
cwt on all common and
medium stock. Good butcher cattle
held up fairly well to prices of last week in
spite of the depression on common stock. This
was however, due to the scarcity of the former
grade. Tuesdays receipts furnished no stock
Mt for transportation to the East. The bulk OF
them had much better been kept at home a
few months longer and enjoyed some generous
feeding.
Said leading stockman: "A very large pro-
portion Of the cattle sent TO the East Liberty
yards this week were poor mixed lots, entirely
unit for butcher purposes. and less fit to be
shipped East. Shippers seem to be possessed
with the idea that Pittsburg consum-
eTs are starving 6P for iSg9bS something f-o% to
fbe meke ouaIitIP sGHP of Pu' most % Of the cattio %
coming in of late There is no trouble what
ever selling tidy butcher cattle weighing from
LOCO to 800 pounds, but very little Of this
grade is being shipped to us of late. OF the 10
loads that arrived on Tuesday there was not a
single load of the kind wanted in our market
A few steers might have been found in each
load but the majority were thin, bony steers
cows. and dear knows what, which would have
been much better left in the corn fields and
pasture fields until their ribs gathered little
tallow.
Stock Of Poor Quality.
Markets have been 1t the mercy of buyers all
the week, and principally for the reason that
the offerings were of a grade unfit for the
butcher trade. l do wish that the farmer would
waken up to the fact that he can do better with
his thin low grade cattle by keeping them at
home and feeding them well for a season than
by dumping them on to our market, where they
can hardly be given away"
What is said above to cattle is IN a great
measure true as to all live stock coming to the
front of late. Quality is the chief thing COM
planned of and all choice stock holds up well in
price because of its scarcity.
Prices for sheep and lambs were higher this
week than at any time this year. There was an
advance of Is to &c per cwt on last weeks
prices for the reason that receipts were very
light. Native wethers are hardly Quotable as
very few were offered. They would readily
bring $3.50. The range for Western wethers was
leo lbs were active at &c to nc. Suckers or
spring lambs are too plenty this week and
dropped from a range of lOc to l2c per lb to
range of &c to &c within few DAYS.
Hogs have been slow all the week. Light
pigs and common stock constituted a large
proportion of the receipts, and on these grades
markets have been very dull. Best selected
stock finds ready sale at a range of 81 40 to
81 so per cwt. The outside price at Chicago
this morning was 81 25 according to advices re-
ceived by one of our leading packers from his
buyer there. This is an advance of l0c to l5c
per cwt over Mondays prices.
Mccall & Co.'s Weekly Review.
The supply of cattle has been fair, and the
demand limited. The market on Monday was
slow at strong last weeks prices. Tuesday and
Wednesday the supply being in excess of the
demand, the market closed slow and lower-not
all sold at present report. We give the follow
ing as ruling prices: Prime l,360 to LOO Bs,
81 6594 IS; good. 100 to 1.4OO ms, 81 25@4 65:
good butcher grades. 1000 TO 1900 ms, SS sU9
4 Is: good, 900 to /, 100 ms, So 65@4 10; mixed
lots, COWS and heifers, 81 50G3 so; bulls and fat
COWS, 81 25d3 so; fresh COWS and springers,
very dull al $50 00G35 90 per head.
The receipts of hogs this week have been
light, and offerings mostly common and light
weights. Good medium ana heavy are in de-
mand and scarce. Sales to-day as follows:
Selected, 200 to go rs, 81 4044 so; best heavy
Workers, average l60 TO $50 ms, 81 1904 IS; COM
mon to fair Workers, average I30 to $50 ms.
s. l5d4 Is; pigs, IS S0G4 90; roughs. S3 5eG4 C
The receipts of sheep this week were fair,
and the market firm and active at strong last
last weeks prices. We quote sales as follows
Prime Ohio and Indiana wethers. weighing
here 10 to l20 MS, s. 90l6 20: good. 90 to 100
MS, IS 5O@5 so: fair to good mixed. rs to 80 ms,
s. 00G5 40; good yearlings, 70 to so MS, S. so
as So; fair to good, 50 to 60 rs, 81 5O@5 90;
good lambs, Sc 25a7 co. common to fair lambs,
IS 50G6 90; veal calvus, ITO to l20 ms, 81 75@
5 10; spring lambs, 6G9c per h.