Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-01
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In Spite OF Moderate Supplies
Values Go Down on Chi
cago Market
HOGS DROP ABOUT 10 CENTS
Sheep, However, Show a Steady to
Strong Market and Lambs Advance
IS Cents Compared With Last
Week-Feeder Cattle Show Active
Market.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-Cattle-Today's
meager receipts were sufficient for
Friday Sales were slow and prices
weak for general run. Large receipts
| this week have caused decline of
| 10000 cents and COWS and heifers
have sold freely, with late sales largely
at 10M15 cents lower. Stockers and
| feeders have been more active. Wes-
tern rangers were disposed of easily.
Trade has dropped back into weak
and rather unsatisfactory state and
much smaller supplies must be had in
the next week, say sellers, before i'm
! provement can be expected. Supplies
have greatly outgroWn the demand,
and while there was a healthy tone to
| the market earlier in the week this has
since been lost, owing to the big runs.
On the late market yesterday sellers
experienced great difficulty in effecting
a clearance of the supply and prices
then were down sharply from Monday,
| while there was no betterment noted
today. Many traders said the market
yesterday was about on level with
| Vic SlOSC VI Liz 0ehy OSAOlS, oul iiioSG
of the selling side compared conditions
with those ruling at the start the day
before, when all buyers were bidders.
| Only some choice yearlings and a few
of the handweight killing and ship
| ping classes sold very readily yester-
| day, others dragging slowly at the de-
cline and closing trade had feeble tone,
while some sellers still had offerings
| for sale.
| A noticeable improvement has taken
| place in the demand for feeding cattle
during the past ten days. Farmers
| feel more comfortable over the out
| look of the corn crop which is now
practically assured in the greater part
| of the corn belt. In Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Iowa and Missouri where most of
the cattle are fed, the crop is almost a
record breaker and farmers are already
wondering what they are going to do
with it. There were many who con-
templated feeding but prices have adj
| vanced so high that many are switch
| ing back to cattle. The demand for
feeding steers is stronger now than 1T
has been since early last spring and is
strongly stimulated by the higher
prices recently paid for fat steers.
|. Hogs.
Moderate supplies failed to check
the downward movement and there
was a further decline today of 10
cents.
Sheep.
l. Todays arrivals were not large
enough to affect values. Sellers had
no trouble in getting steady to strong
prices. Lambs show an advance of
25 cents as compared with last week,
| while sheep held about steady.
Demand for feeding lambs is hardly
as imperative as it was here last week,
owing to the fact that many orders
have been withdrawn on account of the
very high cost of lambs here recently.
Some little A to 46 Id. lambs were
taken out yesterday at cost of $6.25.
but a good class of 52-lb. feeding
lambs sold readily at $3.50. and some
lslambs that were really of the feeder
class went to slaughter at s6.75, show
| ing prices up to the highest range that
| has been paid here thus far this sea-
| son.