Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-19
Prices Were Twenty-Five Cents
Below the Close Last Week
Best Excepted
stocker and Feeder Trade Was Fairly
Animated Today, However, Tho the
Cattle Market Was Worse Than
Ever-Hos Demand Active, With
Prices About Unchanged.

Chicago Oct. 19.-Cattle-Too many
cattle have arrived this week and to-
days market was worse than ever,
with the prices 25 cents lower than at
the close of last week, the best ex-
cepted The stocker and feeder trade
was fairly animated.
Export shipping demands We're not
very liberal yesterday and packers
orders were quite Indifferent coolers
being we'll supplied with beef from
big purchases of late. Receipts were
$4,000. compared with 21,196 a week
ago. while the half weeks supply of
$4,000 stand $500 in excess Of mar
keting here week ago and $500 above
the run a year ago.
All but prime steers and the choice
yearling stock met dull and weak
demand from start to finish and the
tail end of the market was even worse
than early, while considerable num-
Der Of the last arrivals went over I'M
sold, and even without bids. Big plain
heavy steers and also the we'll finished
kinds were poorest sellers, handy
weight fat kinds meeting first call from
all sources.
Fifty-nine 1476-lb. Shorthorn steers
sold year ago yesterday at $500, the
highest for 1904 to that date, bNt the
following day-Thursday, October 90
loan of 1S30-lb Herefords sold at
$500.
Hogs.
The demand was active, buying be-
ing largely on local account, and prices
were about the same as yesterday. The
bulk of sales We're made at $5.10@4.50.
The market yesterday was erratic
because of the wide range in both
prices and quality. Pigs are being
hit hard right along. Light weights.
or anything shippers could not use.
under 40 pounds sold mostly at s4.75
l5.00, or 25@50 cents less than two
weeks ago. This raid has been accom-
plished, despite the fact that few pigs
are coming. Packers were bearish,
but shippers and spectators made a
fairly steady market on the advance
end of the run Anything on which
there was competition looked about
steady. Where packers had their way
depreciation was noticeable. Late in
the session lot of the 1925 packing
Slull ySSlGIudy SOIQi eiAOaAo pO.Ao'
Armour tactics showed some change.
He was willing to go up against higher
priced hogs than recently and bought
at range of $5.15@5.40, bidding the
latter price early for stuff that sold
at $5.42k. While $3.50 was paid in q
few instances but few hogs sold over
half dollar, and it was $b.45@6.5U
market on the bulk Of good mediums
and heavies. Assorted light sold large
Nv around $535, with a range of $3.50
@5.4O on light from weak to strong
weights.
Sheep.
Offerings were we'll taken, and the
trade was active at generally steady
prices.
Feeder demand could not be accu-
rately described as abnormal; it was
even more strenuous. AS a rule, kill
ers wanted anything with decent kill
bad enough to take it away from feed
ers. The feeder end of band OF Mon
tana wethers was $4.65 bid by feed
er. but killer wanted it bad enough
to pay S4.75 and had his way. Feeder
trade was on small scale for the dual
reason that killers were buying the
best of them and the others were avail
able only in small lots. Little lots of
feeding wethers from s4.65 down would
have brought 10 cents more had they
been available in load lots. What
feeding lambs were available sold
mostly at $65O@6.65. Feeding sheep
were not present in sufficient numbers
to make market.
Chicaoo liveatock.
Chicago, Oct. 10.
cattle-Est.mated receipts for today.
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