Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-19
OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKETS
MOnotony Remains the Chief Feature Of the
Cattle Trade at This Point
RUN OF RANGERS CONTINUES TO Be STRONG
Feeders swamping tho Market Wit
Warmed-Up ~stun-Trade In stockers
Duii-Hog Prices Coming Down
to Provision Figures
SATURDAY, Nov. is.

SAIOhbA1, NoNs l'
Receipts of both cattle aud hogs show a
considerable increase over last week and a
year ago, but sheep receipts have fallen off
sharply. The figures are as follows:
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts this week. 24,542 24,ss9 2,6O1
Receipts last week..... 1924 2o,So2 6,s24
Same week last year. q. 20.244 24,3o3 1854
There has been a good deal of monotony
about the cattle market the past week.
Supplies have been liberal and of the same
general characteristics from day to day.
Really desirable beef steers continue hard
to get, and, as the demand for them has been
very active, they always sold early IN the
day at good strong prices.
The market, however, has been surfeited
with common stock. Fine weather has en-
abled western cattlcmen to clean up their
marketable cattle in good shape and for
that reason n large proportion of the OFFER
ings have been direct from the range. Then
the inexperienced or thriftless feeders are
beginning to send in their warmed up, short
feu and half fat stock. These cattle
look all right in the country after they
have been fed n few weeks, put they always
show up bad in the yards here alongside of
gooo cattle, and killers say they make the
poorest kind of beef. AS a result prices
have been very unsatisfactory on the under
grades, although prices are hardly quotably
lower than q week ago. Another circum-
stance that makes trade dull and prices
weak for common cattle just now Is that the
markets are now full of poultry and game,
which, with oysters, takes the place OF beef
to n great extent.
While recelp5s have been liberal enough
here, there has been a big falling off in sup
plies at Chicago, and the killers there have
been compelled to draw on western markets
for supplies. So long as this state of affairs
keeps up prices are not liable to go down
very much. 1t Is q remarkable but crafty
ing circumstance that Chicago is thus COM
PEELED to help build up rival western mar
kets in order to maintain her own SUI
premacy.
Showed No New Features.
The market today presented no new
features. Receipts We're fairly LIBERAL and
the offerings included a fair showing of very
desirable beef steers, both natives and west
erns. Good stuff was in active demand and
strong. Some very choice cornfed
native beeves brought $685. and $500,
while good to choice westerns brought
from $3.50 to 81. 30. The under grades of both
native and range cattle sold inditfercntly,
but at fully steady figures and the close
found practically everything out of first
hands.
The cow market was active and firmcr on
the better grades, Tor wnlcn tne ue'
mand was very urgent, both from local
and eastern killers, but the common aud
canning grades were slow sale aud rather
weak. Good to choice COWS and heifers sold
readily at from 81 5 up to 1925, while COM
mon to very fair stuff went ut from Sl.50 to
81 5. Calves were steady at from Sl.5O to
So for common large to choice veal stock and
rough stock was not quotably changed, com
mon to very good bulls, oxen and stays SELL
ing freely at from Sl.T5 to $2,G5.
Feeders Close Flat.
The feeder market started out all right
this week, but fattened out very badly
toward the close. The demand fell off and
yard traders sought to hold up the market
for a few days by buying up the fresh re.
ceipts at good figures. The demand failed
to improve, however, and the close of the
week found the pens full of stock and feed
ing cattle, which the owners would be glad
to get rid of at prices all Of SOC to SOC lower
than a week ago. The decline has been
heaviest on the light stockers that were
selling so high ten days ago, but all grades
have shared in the general Generalization
TheIeeling is very weak, but present low
prices will in all probability attract buyers
next week and the trade pick up somewhat.
Good to choice feeders are quoted at from
S2.S to 1880, fair 10 good at $3.50 to $3.50,
with inferior to fair grades at 81 to S2.40.
Kepresen tative Sales.