The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-05
WEAK D 5 LOWER
Good Supply of Hogs But
Quality Inferior.
TOPS SINK TO S3.45
Big Cattle Day--Market Steady
and All Sorts offered.

Yesterday was a good day at the stock
yards. There was a very favorable run
of all kinds of stock, including cattle,
hogs, shsep and goats. The cattle and
hogs division were especially well repre-
scented, at least In point of receipts. The
hog market wes quoted as weak 10 5
cents lower on the average and the closa
was a fun strong five lower, in sympathy
with the reports from all the live stock
centers and the markets everywhere. in
Guiding tn provision pit. The day opened
with a very good supply of hogs, main Nv
from the local trade. and this was sus-
tained al Through the early part of the
? tradnng, the wagon trade being as good
In volume as has been in for a bong time
The quality for this branch of the hog
business was nothing especially attract
I've in the main, although some few small
punches were a little better than fair in
grade Ali this part Of the osrings were
early disposed OF at prices in conformity
with their intrinsic worth and the earjy
reports from the east ON hog sales. The
sum total of the wagon hogs was good
and better than for many days through
the recent luu- There were no oars Of
hogs caIT1d over from Monday. and all
transactions were ON stock brought in
through the day. The local rade s4retch-
ed over all the morning and Tapped over
into the afternoon somewhat AIN unusual
feature The early offerings in the car
line we're decidedly inferior and though
promptly BID upon, brought just what
they were worth. The top OF the market
was not placed until some of the closing
sales, and there Was a full cents range
between Fhe early sales and the latter
top On the whole. # must be said THAT
the sale hogs yesterday were generally a
common and uIlattractive lot There were
no real scrubby hogs, or extra common
and sKppy stock, but TOO many of the
car loads were mixed. uneven mingled
lights and roughs, with slightly better
stuff, making of the aggregate a mixed
lot not especially tempting to buyers who
are desirous Of getting firm fat butcher
hogs The top of the day was 3.45, 5
cents under the top of the day before.
On Monday there were three top loads,
the same as yesterday. Two Of the top
cars Monday weighed 245 pounds, and the
three averaged 236 and were of even, we'll
fed grade There were THE same num-
Der of top loads yesterday, and thu av-
erage was PAS, and this difference accounts
for the ) cents decline in price. The bulk
of sales yesterday was from So. 81 to So. AZ,
but this included along with the entire
car lots a large line of the wagon offer
ings. The table shows that all the car
loads came Within the very narrow range
of 40 TO 50. 10, a scent range. In the
FN"vo bulk We're IL separate punches at
ST., 4.----...... ..~ '-"dS and wagon
lots or small numbers. ~ .--- mini mum
of the bulk range, 50. 35, were 9 punches
mostly in small lots. The average weight
for the day was 243, against 227 the day
previous, but the Monday hogs were just
q little better than lnte stock of yesterday.
The receipts were over 100 better than
the day before but about 300 under the
same day hast week, the latter date, by
the way, being the best for that week.
1t was in lall a. good day yesterday, and
with a firm, eager demand all the hogs
on sale. whether of the mean and COM
mon class or the fair grades, were taken
at once and at prices as good as were
warranted from the ruling conditions at
other points. There We're about three
loads yesterday which showed up even
and OF fairly Interesting appearance, and
these easily took the top figures. All else
on sale was just ordinary and brought
Just what they were worth.