Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-06
Buyers Pay Ten Higher For
Choice While Poor Grades
Decline
HOGS LOSE YESTERDAYS GAIN
The Large Receipts of Range Cattle
Como in Competition With All Poor
Grades-Hogs Still Sell High But
Lose LittIe-Demand for Sheep is
Good.

Chicago, Oct. 6.-Cattle-There was
a good demand today and prices were
steady for the bulk of offering with
good to choice firmer to 10c higher.
Natives selling below &c are the worst
sellers as they are depressed by the
large receipts of rangers. Most heavy
cattle find buyers at Sc and upwards.
Cows and heifers are doing better,
there being a good demand. Western
rangers are fairly active at steady
prices. Stockers and feeders rather
active. and sales largely at 2.50M3.50.
With the smaller run this week
statesmen have naturally expected n
stronger market, and while the good
grades went at slightly higher prices
yesterday most sellers were disap-
pointed in the slow and rather indif-
ferent demand for the common and
medium steers. The export inquiry was
not particularly active, though buyers
took a fair volume of the good grades
and the New York demand was also
fairly broad, but most orders called
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was small competition among buyers
Of the common medium beef lots
The proportion of big heavy kinds
was again quite large, though demand
for this class ruled stronger than on
Monday, and while prices showed little
change. selling was effected with more
ease. Strictly prime kinds were scarce,
but more well finished steers arrived
than came on Monday though these
were still in small supply compared
with the liberal run of q week ago.
Hogs.
Hogs--There was a fairly active de-
mand, but yesterdays loo advance was
all lost, the bulk sales being at 5.75@
CLIO.
Receipts of hogs continue light The
quality yesterday, while considerably
better than Tuesday was far from being
scarce.
For the 325 to 350-pound hogs of or
binary quality there was little or no
competition. Smooth, fat heavy bar
rows met with better inquiry, but there
was no great amount of life In the
trade for even the choicest extra heavy
hogs 1t took 325-pound sows to sell
at s5.SOQ5.s5.
Il tried them all ana could get only
one packer even to bid on some 800
pound sows at $780," said salesman.
and while they were plain and not fat
they looked pretty fair among the gen
eral run of hogs"
Big hogs to meet any competition at
all had to be fat ana mostly smooth
barrows. The medium weight mixed
hogs that spectators could handle in
their business sold to best advantage.
Sheep.
Sheep-There was the usual active
general demand at steady prices.
Western ranger sheep were in strong
demand.
Feeding lambs were by no means
scarce yesterday. Another heavy run
of westerns got in and the proportion
OF light lambs was much larger than
recently. About 80 per cent Of the fresh
supply was of range origin, lambs pre-
Good to choice killing
stuff sold steadily, but the feeding lamb
market was big quarter lower than
last week. Receipts Of this stuff have
been so heavy recently that buyers
who hot-footed the sheds last week
looking for $3.50 lambs were in bearish
mood. Top feeders were freely offered
at $3.50, sales running from that price
down to 81 for light stuff. Even at the
decline there was no urgent demand
early in the day. A goodly proportion
of the run was badly mixed, fat sheep
and lambs and thin stuff being heaped
promiscuously, hence the day was far
before order was restored.
This mixed condition is seasonable,
however Feeding sheep were relative
ly scarce, and looked about steady, al
tho some sales were lower.