Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-04
LIVE STOCK REVIEW.
The Run of Cattle at East Liberty
Large and Quality Low.
PRICE LOWER EXCEPT FOR PRIMES,
Light Tidy Butcher Beeyes in Very Scant
Supply and Firm.
SHEEP WEAKER AND SWINE STRONG
PRICE LOWER EXCEPT FOR PRIMES.
SHEEP WEAKER AND SWINE STRONG
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH.
WEDNESDAY, September & 1890

WEDNESDAY, September s. 1890 (
There were 140 loads of cattle on the mar.
ket at East Liberty yards on Monday and
not prime load in the lot. As our mar
kets call for little more than half this quan-
tity 1t will be readily seen that the situation
favored the buyer. The offerings were
chiefly common and low grade cattle.
Farmers are inclined to unload stock in
view OF scarcity and high price of grain.
Light tidy butcher beeves were in light
supply, and for this grade markets held up
fairly well to prices of last week. Prime
heavy cattle are hardly quotable, as there were
none on the market in carload lots. The best
offered did not bring above SIC.
The quality of offerings this week at East
Liberty was below average, and the markets
were Is to zoe lower than last week. Prime
heavy beeves sold in Chicago as high as SIS Is
within few days. and with top prices here at
8 50 it Is plain that there were no primes on
the market. The butchers whose custom calls
Tor prime stock order direct from Chicago. If
they had depended on East Liberty for their
supplies this week they would have been sadly
left. At Herr's Island and Woods Run there
was better quality of cattle offered, but mar
kets az these yards are retail. Sales at the
Island were reported as high as SIC.
The market for sheep and lambs at East Lib
erty yards was slow and prices were off fully 10
cents from last weeks rates. Some dealers re-
port a still further decline. The offerings in
this line were not up to standard There were
lew fancy sheep or lambs the market
Choice stock showed little decline from last
weeks prices, but this was due to its scarcity
more than to anything else. Common and low
grade stock was without doubt Is cents per
hundred weight below prices of a week ago.
Corn-ied hogs were very firm at top prices, but
Erassers, which are in the majority of late were
quiet.
Herr's Island drover thus puts the situation:
There are very few corn fed hogs coming to
our market oflate. Nearby farmers are send
ing in grassers freely, for the reason, | supppse
that feed Is going to be scarce and high the
coming months. The top price at the Island
tins week was for sheep sc, lambs 615c and
Nc n9Es 55Sc. a. Chicago this morning top price
OF hogs was 81 40. according to advices received
by one of our packers from his buyer there.''
Mccall d Co.'s Weekly Review.
The supply of cattle was heavy. the offerings
principally cOmmon to medium and mixed lots
OF light heifers and steers. common to medium
selling Toto 2Oc lower than last week Good to
prime cattle were scarce and sold readily at
last weeks prices. Prime l.300 to l6OO u.s.
a 80 to 49, good 200 to l,4OO rs, 81 10 to 40;
butcher grades, LOO to 1900 Bs, So s. to
20; common to fair 1000 to LOO rs 81 80 to
%; stockers and feeders, 500 to LOO bs,
= 3Oto5 W; mixed lots cows and heifers 50 OOto
50; bulls and tat cows. 50 OOto so; fresh cows
and sprlngers, $50 90 to 35 per head
he receipts of hogs this week have been
liberal and mostly common quality. Good
cornted scarce. We quote good heavy select
ed Il 90 to s. 20; best cnrnfed, Workers. 81 40 to
81 s.: fair Workers 81 . to 81 So; grassers, So 90
TO s. 10; roughs, IS so to 81 90.
The supply of sheep fair, market slow at
a decline of 10 to l5c per cwt from last
weeks prices. We quote sales as fol-
lows: Prime OhIo and Indiana wethers,
weighing here los to 10 lbs, 81 50 to IS 25:
good, 80 to 100 lbs, 81 60 to s. so; fair to good
mixed 20 to SO lbs s. 60 to 81 Is: culls and
common lots, 81 90 10 So 90; good yearlings S4 SO
TO 50 10; far TO good, so 60 lbs s3 so to 81 25
spring lambs, 81 50 to So 20; veal calves no
to l2O lbs, s. 50 to S6 90; heavy calves, 81 90
q W; as to quality, 81 50 to s. 10.