Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Totals. .........ss....... Il 1,Zb $40
CATTLE-There were no cattle of any
consequence on sale this morning. The re-
ceipts for the week show a large gain over
last week, but fall short of last years rec
ord by a few hundred head. The quality
of the cattle coming this week has been
good on an average, the arrivals consist
ing largely of corn-fed steers, among
which there was a liberal s%prinkling OF
Under the influence Of a very good buy
ing demand the market on good to choice
beef steers advanced very rapidly during
the early part of the week until prices at
the close are safely SOC higher than one
week ago, with the top actually Coo higher
than anything brought last week. Fair to
Improvement, being safely 25c higher for
the week. Common and inferior kinds
showing more or less grass have not been
sought after and they are possibly lOgl6c
lower for the week.
Cows and heifers of desirable quality
were free sellers every day, packers evil
IDENTIFY having use for what were coming
and more, too. AS a result, good to choice
dry-lot cows and heifers, OF which very
few were received, were a little higher In
sympathy with the advance on fat steers.
The common TO medium kinds OF grassers
carrying little flesh are slow, and at the
close of the week are soc lower.
While the supply OF stockers and feeders
has not been very large, 1t was more liberal
than usual during the last two or three
weeks. At the same time, country demand
was by no means urgent. Strictly good
IGGOGIS CdlINlhk llG6h nNlS NVA oNAA ~
and hence show very little change as re-
CARDS price during the week. One bunch OF
very good Wyomings sold as high as S,D'
which looked steady. On the other hand,
the market on the general run Of stockers
and feeders was 15R25c lower, and some
of the common and inferior kinds OF trashy
light stockers were possibly as much as
soc lower.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
corn-fed steers, $7.OOq7.9 80; fair to good
corn-fed steers, sc. 90; common TO fair
corn-fed steers. s5.o0q6. %; good TO choice
cows and heifers, &.0oq650i fair to good
fair oows and heifers, $2.25Q4.26; good to
choice stockers and feeders. $4.75q5.2; fair
to good stockers and feeders, $4.O0Q476;
common to fair stockers and feeders, S.2Q
400; stock heifers, S,O0q3.50.
HOGS-The market opened rather slow
this morning, but with first sales showing
an advance of 2A9oc over. yesterdays
CONF to the conclusion that there was no
need of advancing the market, especially
on the last day OF the week, and they &C
cordingly dropped back TO about yester-
days prices. This made the market a lit
tie sticky, but 1t livened up again and
finally became sufficiently active to make
might best be described as a shade to PIC
hogs sold at $SS.4fHa5'b5, with a top Of s5.sS,
shown nSH r q failing q off HV q oy yei' 100 head dA as
compared with last week and a decrease
of about 5000 head as compared with the
corresponding week OF last year; Un o
buying demand the trade has been fairly
active every day throughout the week.
Although prices during the first half or
the week remained about stationary, they
have shown considerable Improvement dur
ing the latter half and at the close the
market is about 25c higher than at the
close OF last week.
Representative sales: