The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-30
HOG MARKET STEADY
Quality Very COmmon--Re-
CeiptS Good For Friday.
BULK $3.50 TO $3.50
Cattle Steady With Few
offered.

ne nus 44Idl net OSlCIUdy was Sledua
to strong, with a shade Of weakness at thu
close. 1t was difficult market to gauge
the receipts on the open market being 81
few, up to a late hour of the trading, as
10 be hard to form basis for setting the
market. 1t was an active market through
out the day, all offerings going readily al
good prices, quality, demand. and receipts
considered. 1t was q poor day for hogs
the general quality of the offerings being
very decidedly common. Lights and pigs
mixed in nearly every car-lot coming in to
the yards, and the best Of the day were
still a bad, common lot, which, II there
had been any choice In a little more lib
eral supply, would have been hard to dis
pose Of 1t would appear that prices pre-
vailing yesterday were about the same as
the day before, quality considered. The
hogs offered yesterday were much inferior
TO those on sale the day before, when some
very fair stock appeared. The top hogs
Of yesterday were hardly as good as the
merely ordinary of the day before. Hogs
sold well up all through the day, the run
of very common stuff considered. Hogs
equal In quality with Thursday would
have sold up as well, and with the fact
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fered the tone was at all times equally
as firm. 1t was at first dull day, the
rece ipts coming in in intermittent groups
at the same time anything at all fair was
readily taken, and at prices fully up to all
they were worth. Some car-lots sold
around $500, which was strong, and the
day before would not have brought near
the price, These loads were thicl1ly sprink-
led with pigs and lights, materially weak
ening the value Of the entire loads, and
lowering the average quality. Some few
fair to good hogs came in, always mixed
with underwelghts and scrubs, and these
features considered, the prices paid were
invariably strong, and the market well up
to the day before, and steady to strong and
generally active and brisk. The hogs were
in no sense as good as those on the mar
ket the day before, when some few loads
were very fair, one load being even choice.
The wagon hogs coming in at the yards
during the day presented a fairly good
run. the time fthe year considered, but
like the CARROTS, were Of inferior quality,
none being so good as the average Of the
day before, when some few very good
ones were offered. Everything considered,
the hogs sold strong and FOR all they were
worth. There were several small loads in,
a not uncommon feature for Friday, when
shippers quite frequently exhibit a tlmid-
ity and reluctance of consigning heavy
shipments late on that day, which may be
held over till Saturday, and not infre-
quenIy send in half loads or any part they
can pick up through the week. Dold was
practically the sole buyer on the market,
he readily taking everything offered,
wagon hogs and carloads alike, and pay
ing the best prices possible for them, the
general tone of the other markets and
quality of the run considered. The spring
trade of the Dold Packing company is on
in fun boom, and unusually early for large
order and they are killing a larger
amount per day than for some time TO
keep their usual stock Of fully assorted
cuts up, as well as the several brands all
n the process of curing. This firm has
been liberal and heavy buyers all this
week, the past two days especially so,
when they virtually absorbed all in sight.
The pens were cleared of all stock by
night, the late arrivals being as well in
spected and appraised as the earlier com
ers. Some dealers noted a shade of weak
ness at the close. although the next TO
the last load weighed up was the top
price for the day, and was as good a
load. though hardly better than the other
loads bringing SS.65. The latter price was
the best paid for the day, though it could
hardly be claimed as top, since on ordi-
nary days, with anything like a fair quail
ity and larger run, would have been out
classed easily. Three carload took this
figure, because they were comparatively
little of an Improvement over the bulk
Of the receipts The markets everywhere
were perceptibly weak and generally low
T. crowding down the provision market
with their natural weight of decline. At
Chicago the estimates had been for % 90
hogs, and $1,000 were received and $500
were left over The market was 2i5d5
cents lower, tops being the same as the
day before. and the lights, mixed and
heavy grades ruling the lower price. At
St. Louis the market was cents lower.
with Loco more hogs than the day before
Receipts at Kansas City were loo less
than for Thursday. and the market ruled
weak to cents lower. closing stu weaker.
The provision market was mainly feat
ureless. recording small declines. due to
lower hos market. May lard gained 10
points ribs points, and pork fell off
s7Ib points. The daily comparisons are as
follows: For the day-Tops, $500: bulk of
sales. $50 to $50; average weight. 2l3;
receipts. ], $50. For the day previ0us-Tops.
S. 20: bulk of sales, $3.50 to S3.65; average
weight 2l5; receipts, $50. For the same
day last week-Tops, SS.67lA; bulk of sales
$3.50 10 S5-65; average weight, 236; receipts
J,l62 For the same day last year-Tops
$3.50; bulk of sales. $40 to $3.50; average
weight 2S1; receipts, 405. on the same
day last year there were . inspected sows
and stays. selling from S2.15 TO $500. There
were also a large number of sales. rang
ing SS.25 TO S5.S5. The tops yesterday were
cents below the day previous. 2is cents
below the same day last week. and Is cents
higher than the same day last year. The
bulk Of sales was 10 cents above that OF
r. year ago, and cents below the other
two dates. The average weight was below
the other two dates. averaging consider
ably under. The receipts were 900 more
than the day previous. s. less than last
week and 725 more than the Same day
last year. The receipts SO far this week
are 6..SI: for same days last week. 707S.
and for same period last year. S745, SO
less than for last week. and 2.SSI more imam
the same period last year. Thirty-three
cars Of hogs are the shipments for the
week 50 far.
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
No. Dock. Az VT Price.
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Observation-Disclosures. 40 ~ s.
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