Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-20
RECORD PRICE MADE FOR THE
YEAR AND HIGHEST IN OPEN
MARKET SINCE 1902.
TWO LOADS OF BLACK STEERS
BRING THE RECORD PRICE.
Only Prime Grades in Good Demand
and Others Are Generally 10 Cents
Lower-Brisk Demand for Heavy
Hoss-Lishts e Drug on Market
Current Quotations.

IN
at 50 today, the highest price this year
and the record for the open market
since 1902 That figure was on two
car loads of black steers. Only prime
quality was in demand, other grades
being slow and generally 10 cents lower
than Monday.
Two days supplies, totaling right at
$4,000, show 1880 increase on a week
ago and $500 increase over q year ago,
while standing 900 under the market
ings here in the corresponding days
two years ago. Seventeen thousand
range cattle have been included thus far
in the week. against 1880 a week ago
and 1900 year ago. The two days
run at six western markets has totaled
145 200 against $4,000 a week ago and
1870 a year ago. Thus the big runs
are not only a feature at Chicago, but
at otherNpoints as well. and the trick
of pounding prices again this week has
not been a very difficult one for the
killers to perform.
! 1t is no surprise TO find the demand
for prime steers still firm and the NOM
| inal prices close to last weeks high
I
steers here Monday than in many weeks
and nothing strictly prime showed up.
The best cattle offered Monday went at
$3.50. a load of 1856 pound steers sell
ling on the market at that price, while
yearlings sold in the afternoon at $3.50,
against a top of $50 in the morning
rounds The supply of really choice
steers has been short at this market
for a long time and this has been the
susta ming feature of the trade. A fair
quota OF prime grades are promised
for the Wednesday trade and sellers do
not look for any material cut in prices
for them as compared with best levels
last week. since both killers and ship
pers have gone short on their orders for
these grades recently. However. there
is noted considerable cut in value
for the next best kinds. sales at s7.75 %
500 and little higher in the Monday
market showing fully 25m35c drop
from the best point last week.
i Hogs.
Hogs opened weak but closed strong
Demand was for heavy. the light stuff
being a drug on the market. Top for the
day was s1.S71a.
kee, has issued a circular to hog own
ers advising against indiscriminate
, shipping of grassy. habitat pigs te
r market at this time. One day thi:
: week the Cudahy concern shipped into
the Chicago market eighteen loads o
hogs. many of them grassy light.
. weights and pigs. the overflow from
!. their plant, which they could not dis
> pose of. Local packers got the bull
= of them at low prices. The circula
;. says: Country shippers should en-
deavor not to buy those half fatted
grassy pigs that the farmers are anx
ious to sell at the present time in orde
to get what they think is a high price
: but if they are obliged to buy then
do so at price that will permit then
d to sell them at very low figure, 70
5 packers are bound to discrininat
against them.
: They lose money for us. no matte
II at what price we buy them" say tn
q Cudahy company. There is nothin
to them but skin and bones, and whe
the meat is put in salt and piled u
IN the cellar-the water runs from
n in streams. We think that the farmer
v are making mistake in their anxiet
~ to get rid of these young pigs, 70
= judging from the present outlook.
will be a long time before good hog
10 will sell under ST, and it will pay til
farmer much better to hold these pig
n and feed them than to rush them of
n, half fatted, at the present time, fl
I'd every bushel of corn fed to such ps
v. will pay them rs cents in pork" The
II SAY that if farmers bring such stuff |
4 market they must prepare to take the
3, medicine.
40 Sheep.
az Native lambs were steady and stror
10 with s7.35 as the top Native she,
ep We're steady and the few westerns, so
a &c. ", showed no material price chang
ut