The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-16

CATTLE-Recefptso cattle have been
heavier than last week, but very small
proportion have BEEN beef cattle. What
rev rat cattle we1 have had in have sold
at strong prices. There have been but a
Few loads of good steers on the market,
ana nothing THAR one could call choice.
the stuff in sold at from $4.65 to $4.95.
+ The grassy, half fat COW stuff is SELL
ing lower. and stock bulls are also 15c to
26c lower Fat bulls are selling at prices
about steady with last week.
Our stocker market has held about stea-
<dy on steers weighing 500 to 800 lbs. and
showing quality,ss but. the common kinds
are fully Csc lower Calves weighing
from ESQ to 400 pounds are selling Csc
lower In most cases, and where shippers
have received anything like last week 8
prices the stuff bought has been sorted.
After carefully sizing up the market for
this kind of stuff we would call the av-
erage fully 25c lower, and the mean stuff
almost unstable.
Heifers have been selling at about
steady prices in most cases on all kinds
There Is also a good demand for feeding
COWS or anything nit to go on grass at
about steady prices.
We would advise our shippers to buy
stockers so that they can sell at even
lower than the present prices, and let
the common stuff alone unless they can
buy 1t very cheap, for We think that
prices will go lower.
We look for beef cattle to sell at steady
to strong prices for two months yet, as
We cannot expect any fat grass cattle
before the middle2of August.
HOGS-Our hog market, for the first
four days of the week, has been prob
lem AS every shipper knows the South
st. Paul market is supposed to be gov
erned by the prices paid in Chicago, but
such has not been the case this week.
On Monday Chicago had $4,000 hogs, and
the market was sc to 10c lower. At
South St. Paul we had 500 hogs, and our
market was only shade lower. On
Tuesday. the day that we get the bulk
of our hogs, our market was fully 1Oc
higher, while the Chicago quotations
were only steady to &c higher Yester-
day the bulk of the hogs sold here at
$3.C5 to 1910, with some sorted punches
to local butchers at 1915
Some commission firms occa sionally re-
fer to mixed hogs as butcher hogs. This
Is. mistake and might be misleading
to shippers. Butcher hogs are hogs
weighing from $50 to 210 pounds and
smooth and fat. 1t is this class of hogs
that are selling at the top prices to local
butchers.
Today (Thursday) the receipts were
about 1,560 TheT bulk of the hogs sold
at $3.50 to $S,7o,a with a few at 1915.
Rough sows, 1925 Ito $685.. Stays and
bears, $l.50 to $2s25. q
We would say to shippers that they
cannot look for higher prices until there
is decided upward movement in pro-
visions. 49,.
SHEEP-Therenh has been little change
for the better III the sheep market Re-
ceipts have beenJlight, while the demand
is very good. There, is heavy inquiry
for fat sheep, while there have been
hardly any in, and the local buyers have
been compelled to go without owing to
the fact that all the sheep that have
been feeding here have been marketed,
and the yards are bare of everything but
the daily receipts. Prices are possibly
a shade higher on everything but spring
lambs. which are still very low and not
in good demand
Ne quote: Fat sheep. $425 to $475;
stock sheep, 50 to $3.50: bucks, So to 81;
fat lambs, $4.75 to $5.25; spring lambs,
$4.75 to $3.50.
Very truly,
CHARLES L. HAAS COM. co.