Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-20

a III mere WAS nOLnlnR Oh any COLI
sequence on sale this morning, the market
being practically bare of supplies as IL
usually the case on Saturday. The total
receipts for the week show very little
change as compared with last week or 9
yea ago, but are decidedly smaller thar
were the receipts O few weeks ago.
Receipts Of beef steers have not beer
large enough this week under ordinary con-
ditions to have a bad effect upon the mar
ket, Still prices nave been lower and the
trade extremely slow and unsatisfactory
practically every day this week. Thus al
the present writing prices are generally
Zoe lower h one week ago, heavy cattle
showing the most decline and handy ligh,
cattle. the least decline. The cause for the
Unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in the
market is to be found in the large receipts
OF cheap grass cattle from Texas, which
have been cutting a very large figure 81
These cattle ave been supplying cheap
beef, which to q considerable extent has
taken the place OF cornfed beef, hence the
prices for cornfed cattle.
The market on cows and heifers has
been just about as unsatisfactory as the
stsiGtly %1 sood s to choice loF th fed Sf heifeF rsaf SaVs
POSSIBLY not shown Sc much. decline, blu
the general run Of COWS and heifers, es-
around $50 lower. Veal calves, bulls and
stays have shown about the same amount
OF decline as COW stuff.
The volume Of business doing In feeders
sAAAo UOOh hh1 bONh AAlhAAg "a dp-
parently being too busy to come In after
cattle. The best weighty\ feeders, owing
70 the extremely small supply, have not
shown as much change, but the general
run OF light and medium weight cattle are
as much as 1502bo lower, and light stock
ers have been extremely hard to sell on
some days at any price. No one looks for
very much activity In feeders until the rush
Of farm work Is over and until cattle Of
that description begin arriving from the
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice corn
fed steers, Se.S0@6. 70; fair to good cornfed
steers, &.90Q6. 80; Common 70 fair cornted
steers, &.O0g5.9O, good to choice cornfed
cows and heifers, $5.00Q5.S5 fair to good
COWS and heirers. $3.76Q5.0O; common TO
hsifers, Ss2s@4Oo; veal calves. H.OO@7OOi
stOcksrs and feeders, Is5Sb.S &; fair to good
stockars and feeders, $3.75QL2; common to
fair stocksrs and feeders, $s.QOgS.7b.
were small and the quality was poor, there
being really no choice heavy hogs such as
have been bringing top prices. The better
morning, but common light hogs in some
cases did not show much advance. Still
packers claimed that taking quality into
S SSnSip so mopa 1 tSan 1foyss were costing
was at no time very active, but the hogs
kept selling and as receipts were small q
reasonably early clearance was effected.
Receipts Of hogs this week nave been
very small, showing a falling off Of about
1000 head as compared with last week and
Of over 1000 head as compared with q
year ago. To put II another way. receipts
OF hogs this week have been less than half
as large as one year ago. The heavy drop
In receipts Is explained by the fact that
farmers and they nave been working in the
corn fields instead OF hauling hogs to
market. The week opened with a very
sharp advance in prices, hogs being quoted
on Monday 10a15c higher. Since that thine
the tendency has been steadily upward,
barring a slight reaction on Thursday and
at the close OF the week prices are on an
average just about 26o higher than they
were on Saturday Of last week. This
means that the market is now the highest
that 1t has been at any time this year and
the highest OF any year since 1902.
Representative sales: