Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-25
Totals ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lO5

CATTLE-There were no fresh receipts
Of cattle today of any consequence and all
that could be said regarding the current.
days market Is to quote II as nominally
steady. The receipts for the week.-mrs. will
be noted from the table at the beginning
of this report, have been comparatively
small. showing slight decrease as COM
decrease as compared with year ago.
The fact is the receipts this week have
been the smallest of any week since April.
expected al this season Of the YEAR, has
been quite good on an average, the receipts
being made up almost entirely of corn-fed
The market on beef steers during the
week has shown no very great change In
decline took place on any day during the
week, such changes as did occur being de-
scribed as steady to easier or steady to
strong At the close of the week the best
beef steers might be quoted as strong to
i0c higher than last week, with the coarse,
heavy and unfinished cattle and grassy
Good dry lot cows and heifers have been
strong every day during the week for the
very light, while the demand has been eK-
ceptionally good. Common grassy stock
has been slow sale every day, being
elected for, the better grades. Good fat
bulls have been good sellers, in fact have
sold as good as any time, but grass bulls
for some reason or other do not appear to
be wanted and receivers OF such have COM
planned that II has been hard work to move
them at satisfactory prices. Veal calves
have sold well all week. the best bringing
S68.
Hardly enough stockers and feeders have
been received from day to day to make
test OF values or to call IL a market The
few received have sold at satisfactory prices
for this season OF the year. but as a mat
ter Of fact there has been very little doing
In this branch of the cattle trade,
HOGS-Hogs opened 21kd5c higher this
morning, few of the first strings going
at S6.35d6 SIN. Before very many had an
opportunity to take advantage of these
prices the market came to a standstill,
the hogs at steady prices or leave them
alone. For a time the trade was pretty
dull, sellers fighting hard for higher prices
but in the end they had to cut loose i'm
about yesterdays notches. The close was
II anything a little easier than yesterday.
the last hogs selling largely at Sc 30 ii
will be noted that the stronger sales on
the opening makes the average market a
trihs stronger than yesterday. IL will also
be noted that the hogs sold at a somewhat
ket are beginning to talk that there is
likely 20 be gradual spread in prices al
buyers seem TO be giving more preference
TO the heavy hogs of good quality, while
light hogs are becoming more plentiful
every day, especially in the southern mar
In the face Of large receipts the market
this week has been In very fair condition.
The week started out with an advance
but Monday proved 10 be the high day and
prices gradually eased on, reaching the
low point OF the week on Thursday. when
the hogs sold 10c lower than the close OF
the previous week The recovery yester-
day and today leaves the market only 2iL
Q5c lower than last Saturday. The buying
demand has been extremely good all the
week and in spite OF the very large receipts
the hogs have sold freely at current prices
Representative sales: