Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-05

CATTLE-There were no fresh cattle
in the yards OF any consequence, II being,
as usual on saturday holiday SO Iar
as the trade in cattle was concerned. The
receipts this week have run slightly ahead
Of last week being large for this time cf
the year. This is especially noticeable
when a comparison is made with the re-
ceipts of year ago. when the run was
not nearly so large as this week.
The week started out with an un-
precedently heavy run for this season of
the year, the receipts on Monday having
been the largest Of the year, with one
market points had large runs the same
day and broke badly. Under these con-
ditions all kinds Of cattle stunned badly
the week all of zoe lower, or 2595Oc
lower than the high time ten days ago.
After Monday the market changed very
The market on cows and heifers has
been getting worse al most every day. Last
this week there has been an additional
! break OF Is q 25c, making the market 40q
| 75c lower than the high time ten days
! the break has been brought about by the
| large receipts OF western grassers. A de-
! cline of that kind is nothing unusual for
! this season of the year.
! Receipts of stockers and feeders were
decidedly heavier this week than during
any previous week so far this season.
| heavily the first of the week, but later on,
as they found themselves unable to unload
|
| very poor buyers and the market declined
| at the close OF the week 5425c on the
general sun Of fair to good feeders, with
| light and medium kinds 26 q SOC lower
| than a week or ten days ago.
Representative sales:
HOGS-After yesterdays wild market
/ the trade steadied down somewhat today.
StiIl the movement was not as active as
/ yesterday ana the general trade was lack
/ Ing in snap, so that considerable time was
consumed In dispo6ing OF the hundred odd
/ loads received.
! AS TO prices 1t is no easy matter to make
| comparisons with yesterday for the reason
| that yesterdays market was so very I'M
| even. The feeling among sellers was that
/ light hogs, II anything, sold a little
stronger than yesterday. barring possibly
/ the extreme high time of yesterday. on
| the other hand heavy hogs did not sell
/ quite as well as yesterday Taking the
market as a whole IL was not materially
possible to find plenty of sales. which
| made yesterday. Very choice light hogs
sold as high as f6.371A. which was "a
above yesterdays top.
crate gain over last week and a very
heavy increase over the corresponding
Soth Ssrs snd otbeI m lsTge re6eiiP
! enabled packers to bear the market, with
| the result that prices tended rapidly down
very sharp reaction. on Thursday The
! hogs sold on an average of 36c lower than
] az the close OF the previous week After
1 allowing for yesterdays reaction the mar
ket today is 20425c lower than one week
/ ago.
| After the more urgent orders were filled
| the trade became even less active than
| Il was early. About that time thirteen ad-
/ diticnal cars arrived at the yards and
! buyers who were still on the market took
| advantage OF the situation 70 pound prices
| somewhat. Good light hogs did not sell
so much lower but heavy hogs were IN
many cases as much as 5QlOc lower than
| the early sales. II would be hard work 10
| imagine a more uneven market than that
which has prevailed here for the last two
I or three days.
RapFagant sales