Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
Total receipts
The disposition OF the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
har ~ hana {naioafaA.
Total 80.


CATTLE-Only four cars of cattle were
reported in this morning. which was not
enough to make a market. For the week
the receipts rave been rather light, show
ing a considerable falling off as compared
with last week and a still heavier decrease
as compared with a year ago. Included
among the receipts there have been quite
a good many very well finished beef steers,
although the supply of really desirable cat
tie of all kinds has been very moderate.
Owing to the comparatively light offer
ings OF strictly good to choice cattle and
to the, very fair buying demand for that
kind, the market has been In a good,
healthy condition all the week, and I'D, a., az
higher than last week. The best cattle
sold as high as S.O5, the highest price
of the season to date. Fair to pretty good
cattle have also sold quite freely on most
days and they are safely steady at the
close. on the other hand, common and liz
ferior kinds of >warmed-up or short-fed
beeves are gradually working downward,
and for the week are a little lower.
A considerable proportion of the receipts
this week has been made up OF cows ana
heifers, the greater part. of them on the
grassy order. The supply the first of tho
week was especially large and on Monday
the market on the genera. run OF COW stuff
market showed decided Improvement, the
trade on that day being active and prices
generally stronger, so That "a proportion or
the decline was recovered. Still at the
close of the week the market would have
to be quoted 10ll5c lower on the bulk Of
the COW stuff coming at the present time.
Strictly good dry-lot cows and hetfers,
which have been very scarce all the week,
would probably command fully steady
prices.
Now that the weather has turned pleas
ant, so that farmers are enabled to work
In the fields, they are evidently too busy
10 speEd much time looking for stockers
or feeding cattle. AS a consequence the
scription has been very slack. Fortunately,
receipts have been quite moderate, but .still
too large for the demand, 80 that the
market at the close OF the week Is In a
more or less demoralized condition. Out
side of the very best feeders, the market
is generally 25c lower and 1t is possible to
point out cases where trashy stockers and
undesirable feeders are 25QSOo lower than
last week.. ..., .- go
Quotations on %cattle:. Good to choice
corn-fed steers, S8.0O97. IS; ommon to fair
corn-fed steers, $5.OoQ6. 40; good to choice
cows and heifers, s450d6.00; fair to good
fair cows and h%eifers, S2.OOq4.O0; good to
choice stockers and feeders, $4.5O05.0o; fair
to good stockers and feeders, s3754L5 90
common to fair stockers and feeders, $3.25
93.75; stock heifers, S300q3.5O.
HOGS-Hogs sold strong 10 &c higher this
morning, buth the trade was not overly
sctive at the advance. The most Of tho
hogs sold at S.5q5.9O, with a top as high
as 1886. II will be remembered that yester-
day the bulk OF the hogs brought S.s0d6.5,
with a top at 81. 92h.
The receipts Of hogs this week have
fallen short of last weeks big run and
considerably short of the record of a
year ago. During the first half Of the
week prices tended upward rapidly reach
ing the high point of the year. A portion
Of this weeks advance was lost on Thurs
day and Friday. The slight reaction to-
day leaves the market a strong 2c higher
than II was at the close OF last week, but
around &c lower than the high point on
Wednesday. The market during the most
of the week has been in very satisfactory
condition ana sellers have generally been
well pleased.