Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-19

CATTLE-It was the usual Saturday holi-
day I'm the cattle division, nothing or conse-
quence being received or sou. Inc receipts
TINS week nave been very liberal, being con-
slderabiy In excess of Iast weeks ngures
ana more tnan double the run Tor the cor
responding week OF year ago. The close
Of the market wouia seem to Indicate
100 large TO satisfy the demands OF the
market.
1t would be hard TO imagine more sat
lstactory market tor beef cattle tnan pre-
vailed during the first four days TINS week.
In spite OF large receipts the trade was
active ana prices strong To higher every
day. The demand was sufficient 10 take
everything offered at most satisfactory
prices. the market as a whole being the
Friday the receipts were unusually heavy,
and as packers had their orders pretty
off somewhat that day' being Quoted Weak Weak
to loo lower. After allowing Tor this re-
action the market At the close of the week
Is still fully l51s5c higher than at the close
of last week.
Cows and heifers had about the same ex-
Showed still more advance Curing s'i the t tfr.t
four days of the week and did not make as
much loss on Friday. so that at the close
than on last Saturday. As high as $3.50
was paid for cows during the week, but.
good The very excellent demand that has
/ prevailed all the week for COWS and heif-
ers Is noteworthy feature OF the cattle
/ stockers and feeders were not I'm very
large supply on any day of the week, but
while the country demand was Temporarily
cut on by the severe storm of Tuesday In
consequence Of this some little accumulation
| or feeders took place toward the latter part
OF the week. and the feeling was generally
easier as result of this.
Feeders have not shown The advance that
| fat cattle have, largely for the reason that
| they were already high: still they gained
somewhat during the f1rst four days OF the
week, but allowing for "A little weakness
at the close, the market could not at the
present time be quoted materially higher
than i was az the end OF last week
! Representative salesi
/ BULLS.
No I'...........,i 49, p, rS n "a, az r.
HoGs-For a Saturday there was wa very
decent run OF hogs. lie fresh cars being
reported in: The total for the week shows
week but a heavy gain ' over Year ear ago ago
In tact, the receipts this week are more
than do, double what they were for the CORE
Conditions were generally In selle RS favor
this morning and every one started out
holdings. While buyers were little slow
at first about putting on the market was
reasonably active when the trade was once
higher than yesterday The hogs sold
largely at ss.scas. sSls. as against $500
higher than the best price yesterday.
This has been great week 10 the sellers
OF hogs, as everything had been coming
. AiiCll way ~ Aut bitiAiAk ti@ hObS SOh.
/ i'm identically the same notches as at the
! close OF the previous week Buring the
next three days values advanced rapidly
and after a slight reaction Of Friday were
still decidedly higher than at the beginnine
OF the week. With the advance today the
| ma ket is an even Ac higher than il vas
al the close of last week. While the aver
age price At which hogs were selling today
is Just about S. 20, one year ago the average
price t4.T3 two years ago sec. three
years ago N.O2. The last mentioned price
was the highest at which hogs have sold
On this market during the month OF Feb
ruary since 1888 when they averaged q ls
on the nth OF the month.
Representative sales: