Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-19
CATTLE FAIRLY STEADY
General Results Attained by
Sellers This Week Have
Been Satisfactory
DECLINE IN HOG PRODUCTS
Early in the Session Values Fell to
Five Under Yesterdays Levels, and
Decline Was Still Greater Before the
CIose-Live Mutton Trade Was
Strong This Week.

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Chicago May 19.--Cattle-While the
market has been more or less circular
this week, the general results attained
| by the sellers have been satisfactory to
the country, and demand has been
| of the trade seemed to be more ready
to make bids than they had been the
previous week. Today the tone was
nominally steady
A few days of hot May weather has
| cut the general demand for cattle, but
depression In trade is noted chiefly for
| the big weight grades, which have
| lacked prime quality. These have
| been a drug at largely Zoe decline COM
| pared with a week ago, while light and
handy weight steers have gone slowly
| the price range has held about at last
weeks level.
There has been no incentive to activ-
! ity in trade at any time, the receipts
! for the week aggreSatins upward Of
| $4,000, which big supply has been more
| than ample to fill demand. Yearing
beeves have been in liberal supply OF
late and prices for the palmer grades
| weakened. altho strictly good to choice
kinds have held at good figures. Late
call from the shippers and exporters
has been rather quiet altho buying IN
earlier days this week was on a larger
scale, and this broader outside demand
was mainly responsible in holding
prices so near to steady range.
The proportion of prime steers COM
ing of late has been small and not
many went above Sc. A few lots, how
ever, have landed at $6.05@615, some
Iowans. kansans and Nebraskans max
ing these figures. Sales up to S5.S5
have been fairly numerous and big
supply of well-finished steers went at
So. 4O@5.75. including export grades as
high as $3.50. Packers and shippers
bought most of the medium TO good
beeves at $4.75@5.15, and the common
to fair light killers ranged at S425@
AGO.
Hogs.
The early market found values aboN
five cents under yesterdays levels, and
before the close, there were many cases
in which prices were off 7la. Best
sellers were light weights.
Packers were bearish in their atti-
tude daily this week, and only moder-
ate receipts and fairly good shipping
demand barred them from pounding
the market quite severely. AS the con-
sumptive demand for products was good
and foreign shipments showed an in
crease over this time one year aSo,
along with the above named fae.s,
packers were unable to use their club
effectively.
1t is said that Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana farmers lost many pigs during
the bad weather in March and that the
mortality was more or less great thru
out the western states. and this will
have a bearing on the later market.
While packers are talking more liberal
supplies in the nearby future and also
lower prices, few men on the other side
of the trade can see other big receipts
or very much lower range of prices
Quality of hogs arriving here lately
the best for this time of the season
in some years and the average weight
last week proved the heaviest of the
year thus far, indicating that farmers
are not only giving more attention to
the breed of hogs, but are taking more
pains with the handling of such in the
feed lots.
Sheep.
The feature of the live mutton trade
this week was the strong demand foe
light weight shorn lambs. Sheep, too,
have been i'm demand and on the light
supply, they have been boosted to al
most prohibitive figures.
1t has been a high and bounding
market for sheep and yearlings for the
week thus far. Buyers gave excellent
support to trade and demand was the
best of the season. Prices We're the
highest of the year thus far and show
ed 25m35 cents gain over one week ago
and s1.OOm125 better than the range in
force one year ago.
Fewer arrivals of this class are COM
ing for this time of the season than in
the memory of oldest traders on this
market, while prevailing prices are the
highest in years for this period Of the
year. Sheep from Texas and Arizona
are expected at Chicago in the near flu
ture owing to the attractive prices be-
ing pall mere, anu supPiies VI eWE9 WI
be increased by the arrival IF native
lots, yet not enough stock will be avail
able to cut any figure in the general
trade until shipping begins from the
northwest ranges, which will no. really
commence to any degree until around
the middle of July.
Chicago Livestock.
Chicago, May 10.
Cattle-Estinated receipts for today