Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-20
SELLERS OF CATTLE FAIL IN EF.
FORT TO MAINTAIN LAST
WEEKS PRICES.
ONLY FEW OF CHOICEST
STEERS REMAIN STEADY
Hog Prices Uneven, scalpers Paying
Top Prices But Packers Refuse to
Come Into the Biddins-Lambs Hit
Hard by Big Run, Being Off is to
25 Cents.

Chicago, Sept 20-Native steers
were weak. While sellers tried to hold
prices to the closing levels of last week
it was a hard task and many called the
decline 10G15 cents. as compared with
the extreme low time of last week.
Only few OF very choicest steers were
held steady. Western steers of quality
We're unchanged. but the bulk was
weak.
Receipts for last week toltal $4,000,
against CLASP the week previous. and
1890 a year ago, while there were in
cluded last week $4,000 western rang
ers, the largest run of the season to
date, comparing with 2s 900 the pre-
Vious week and $4,000 a year ago
There has been outlet for practically
all the run. but big supplies made
lower prices for natives irnpera-
tive. Killers found a plentiful supply
of natives of value under $3.50. and
there was also requisite number to
fill orders up to s7.75 and still afford
them getting the prices lower. High
retail prices are claimed to have
checked the demand for beef. and eth
er this is a fact or else killers are
putting considerable cheaper priced
beef into the channels which usually
provide outlet for finished kinds.
A good deal of the best grade range
steer beef is going into higher class
consumptive trade than is usual and
this explains killers keen demand for
the best of the westerns for which
they are paving highest prices since
1902. Range cattle have found broad
outlet all the week. despite the poorer
demand for natives and western wall
ues hold firm with Week ago. in con-
trast to the decline for natives.
Sales of fancy heavy and yearling
steers up TO $3.50 on Wednesday put
top at highest point for the open mar
ket since 1902. and rarely in the his
tory of the trade have the prices
reached such a limit. A gain of 20
cents was made on late weeks high
point, while top was 80 cents higher
than year ago and sl.25 higher than
two years ago this week Sales above
IS however, We're rare and big end If
the good TO choice .ressed beef and
shipping steers went at s7.25d7.S5.
with medium TO good corn fed steers
at s6d7. while The grassy lots went
dawn to So and tailings in odd lots
ranged down TO $3.50 and below
Hogs.
Hogs We're uneven A few scalners
ser the early market and tops of SIS
We're peid by these buyers. but the
shippers orders We're light and packers
We're b4artsil in spite of light runs in
the west. The market was steady to a
shade lower on the bulk of offerings.
Supply was light. both here and in
the west last week but shipping ca
nand has been sharply curtailed ow-
Ing 10 hot weather and high prices
Wllifying the effect of meager OTTER
( rgs. The five western markets re-
port about 100000. a few less than the
previous week and $4,000 less than a
year ago. September receipts to date
are 10000 less than last year. here,
while shippers have taken 5000 morn
a year ago the top was s745. bulk
of mixed hogs selling at ss.9om7l 10.
Two years ago the top was $3.50, with
smooth packers 10 censt lower
Ii is pb time at the markets. For
months past shoats have been scarce
and good pigs have sold as light hogs
hut that season is over. During III
increasing proportion of pig mixed
stuff. weighing from forty to 13j
pounds. and buyers have been prompt
to discriminate against it, The cas- is
also shipping pigs which makes In
market meaner than otherwise SOnt
ason why pigs are being marketed is
that corn is short in some sections
another that new corn has been fet
sued. There are growers who lack con-
foence in the future of the market. bu
sacrificing healthy young hogs at &
season when they are making goot
gains does not look like the best o
judgment Formerly it was the custom
to market the surplus at this seas on
retaining only the hogs that We're to ot
fattened. but no such surplus is raise
now. Packers are of course reluctan
to see movement of pigs toward mar
ket as they need product and every lit
tie pig slaughtered now means one ia
hog less during the winter packn:
season.
Lambs We're hit hard by the big run
and dropped 15@25 both in the west
. ern and native divisions. Sheep ais
suffered thru lack of buying activitie.
: and went at declines of 10@15 cent,
Receipts We're in excess of urgent trad
needs, running close to 100000
Chicago Livestock.
Chicago, Sept. 20.--Cattle-Estim
ed receipts for today, $1,000; steady t
(. 10 cents lower.
7. Beeves ...s.. ...... $3.50. N41o@s.4
Texans $3.50. ........ -. 4.00@5
Westerns ...... ...... 80. 3.9O@5.s
l Stockers and feeders .... 2nn@5 o
: Cows and heifers .......... 2.20@6.1
Calves -. ...... ....... 6.75@9O
Hogs-Estimated receipts for toda.
L % 900: steady