Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-04
Continued Moderate Receipts
and Active Demand Have
Caused Rise of 25 Cents
BEST STEERS 40 CENTS HIGHER
Many Cattle, Particularly Medium
Class, Selling Close to Dollar More
Than Month Ago-Active Demand
for Hogs at Further Small Advance
Today-sheep Market Weak.

Chicago. June 4.-Cattle-There
were not enough here today TO make
prices mostly nominal. 1t has been a
great week for sellers, continued mod
crate receipts and active demand put
ting prices higher than ever Prices
averaged fully 25 above last weeks.
best steers selling 40 higher. Many
cattle. particularly medium class, are
selling close to dollar more than a
month ago.
The supply for the first two months
Of this year was about the heaviest on
record. and showed a gain of 100000
head over the same period in 1903. AS
the year grew older this disparity in
the supply was gradually Whitfield
down till at the first of April there was
difference of only 100000. and when
June was reached we find the five
months receipts just about balance
those of a year ago. There are many
who think that we will run behind for
the next two or three months. and SO
predict higher prices. Receipts n year
ago this week were 71,417 head, and for
the same time in 1902. when prices were
sky high, the supply was only 1880
head. This seems to be logical rea-
son for the present advance, and dem
onstrates to the fair minded that the
law OF supply and demand is still In OPP
Grafton in the cattle market.
Hogs.
There was an active demand and
prices showed further small advance.
the best grades selling PIG higher than
yesterday and ~ above Thursdays
best price. Despite the good increase.
over recent weeks, supplies are smaller
than for corresponding weeks in re-
cent years and a good local and ship
ping demand have put prices 10 higher
than week ago
Quality was pretty fair and the av-
erage weight of hogs for the week will
perhaps show slight increase over
last week.
Head buyers have begun to caution
their men to look out for hogs that
show up grassy, and a wider spread in
prices on light and immature medium
future.
Talk about hogs" said q stockyartl
man Just back from the west "hut the
landscape is fairly decorated with them.
All over Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas ana
South Dakota | saw nothing but hogs.
1t is a fact. however. that most of them
are not in overweight class Corn is
dear and scarce and hog owners are NOT
in the humor to hold their stock until
it gets portly. The hog of the corn belt
will go thru this summer mainly on
grass
Sheep.
There was a small supply today,
which sold at unchanged prices. Dur
Ing the week sheep have experienced
weak market, with poor demand.
A bunch of wooded lambs averag-
ing 100 pounds sold here yesterday Mt
$3.50. Both buyer and seller agreed
that these lambs would have brought
considerably more had they been
shorn. The traders said they would
certainly have sheared seven or eight
pounds of wool had they been sheared
at. home, and that this wool there
would have been worth about Is cents
a pound to the owner.
Feeding lambs averaging SO pounds
with wool off, have been taken out
this week at a cost of $3.50, while
western lambs of the same weight IN
fleece have been bought at $40 q
500. Some of these will be fed III
pasture for the midsummer market.
while others will be graaed thru the
summer and fed for the early winter
market next season, arriving here about
the time that supplies of fat western
range lambs have run out.