Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-07-23
Chicago Live Stock Market.


and the atmosphere surcharged
with rumors of sympathetic strikes
in other lines connected with the
live stock business, the marketward
movement has been curtailed down
to a minimum, says Rappal Bros.
& Co.. of Chicago, in a special letter
to the Herald and they advise as
follows:
Arrays Of empty hog pens greeted
an anxious army Of buyers day
after day, and porcine goods values
went skyward, top hogs being
bought up with avidity at 1915.
Good to choice mixed and mediums
suited to butchers wants were 10
to zoe higher than last weeks close,
and prime shipping and light
weights enjoyed a similar degree
OF popularity. Other kinds did not
get the aforesaid advance, especial
ly rough hogs, there was no demand
for them, and will not be until after
the strike has been settled, and it
will be nothing short of folly to
send them to market.
Cattle trade was steady, depend
| ing on limited demand from city
butchers, shippers and exporters,
which is limited to the right kinds.
Gamer and cutter and calf trade is
demoralized. and stocker and feeder
trade is lifeless. Bulk Of beef cattle
sold this week at $5.25 to 1878 with
a top of $685. against 81. so to $500
a year ago. Exporters have taken
1,25O to 1,4OO-lb steers at $500 to
$500 for the hulk. Bulk of fair
to good fat COWS and heifers are
quotable at $2.75 to 50. 40, good to
choice So. 40 to So. 90, and choice to
fancy kinds So. 80 to 81. so, with extra
fancy heifers quotable around S.. 90.
Mutton trade has been all but
demoralized by the strike. Sheep
values have held about steady, but
on the bulk of lambs decline Of
$3.50 per cwt has been effected.
Spectators with nerve enough to
operate on strike market have
made handsome profits by reship-
ping to Buffalo and New York, the
former selling lambs up to $500
and New York up to 1915. The
| top here since the strike is 7-cents.
Exporters have taken several strid-
ings Of westerns at $3.50. Prices of
dressed mutton have gone up in
! sympathy with the strike and
reserve stocks are being rapidly
reduced to zero. Should killing
operations be resumed at an early
date a lively demand is inevitable.
I Current cattle and hogs prices are
as follows:
CATTLE.
Choice to prime beeves. $6.05
i ............. to $6.35
Fair to good heavy steers. 5 70
" w
Fair to good export and shipping
steers. ........... 5 % to 65
Medium beef steers. 70 to &c
Inferior and plain steers. 4 90
to Is
Good to fancy COWS and heifers
/ 4 70 to &C
| Good to choice feeders. a. 375
i ............... to 4 50
Poor to fair stockers and -.
feeders ....... 25 to 3 &c
Fair to good cows and heifers.
i 325 to Is
Good cutting and fair beef COWS
4 2 Is to 3 1O
Common to good canning COWS
j l 90 to 2 10
Bulls, poor to choice. 2 10 to 35
Calves, common to choice. 2 so
........ W oU
HOGS.
Bulk of sales. $3.50 to SIS. 40
Heavy butchers. 24O to go.
5 IS to rs
Light butchers. 100 to $50 s..
..... ........ 5 IS to 5 Is
Light bacon. .l7O TO lS5..
5 80 to IS
Light light. !. $50 to 1885,.
5 so to 60
Heavy shipping $50 to 300..
SOS to 70
Heavy packing $50 to 400.
.......... 4 25 to 5 30
Mixed packing. 200 to $50. i.
5 35 to IS
Rough heavy grades. GO to 5 10
Light mixed ITO to 200 55 to IS
Poor to best pigs. SO to 12O..
............ D w TO 81
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