Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28
The official number of cars Of stock
brought In today by each road was as fol-
The disposition of the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
Der of head indicated:

CATTLE-It was a holiday in tho cattle
yards as usual on a Saturday, there being
nothing OF any consequence received and
nothing OF Importance on sale. The re
ceipts for the week have been moderate,
showing a small decrease as compared with
last week and with a year ago
Beef steers started out the week with a
good sharp advance, prices on Monday
being quoted 1o11bc higher. On Tuesday
there was a still further Improvement and
the market on that day was quoted 800
week. Tuesday proved TO be the high day
and for the next two days the tendency OF
the market was lower. Yesterdays mar
ket was about steady. Thus at the close
OF the week beef steers can safely be
quoted 15@20c higher than the close of last
week, the medium kind of beeves showing
II anything more Improvement than the
heavy cattle.
Cows and heifers experienced about the
same ups and downs as beef steers, advance
ms very sharply the first two days OF tile
week, losing part OF the advance later on,
but still closing B0hc higher than last
week. Veal calves have been good sellers
all week at strong prices, while bulls nave
shown an advance OF 100l6c in many cases.
tr 4 S:rs fair n .t 1 9 s Of 9 Sssssrs TSs
fact that beef steers sold to better advan.
tage caused freer Buying on the part OF
the. country, but still there was no very
ever. a strong feeling for the better grades
Of feeding cattle, n all such met with
very ready sale. Al the close OF the week
the yards are well cleaned up and the
market in a good healthy condition.
Quotations On cattle; Good to choice corn
fed steers, Sc. 15a6e5; fair TO good cornfed
steers, $6.0e19.25i common to fair oornfed
steers, M.60Q5. 90; good to chpice cows and
heifers, t.50dS. so; fair to good cows and
heifers, $3I8004.B0, common to fair cows and
heifers. 81. G93. 80; stock heifeIs, &,0044.O0;
veal calves, SS.5JG7.50; bulls, stays. etc,
81. 1904. IS; good to choice stockers and feed
ere, S4.6006.4 10; fair to good stnckers and
feeders, A.o04p4.te; common 20 fair stock
ers and feeders. S.2S64.m.
HOGs-Hoss sold SC higher this morning
and whiie the market was not exactly ac-
tive there was a fair movement and every
thing in sight sold in very good season In
the morning. Some OF the better hogs pos
sibly may nave shown a little more adj
vance than that noted above, but, on the
other hand, quite D good many statesmen
thought that they were not able to gel
quite &c higher on their light hogs. II
might be we'll for shippers to understand
that light hogs on the common order are
selling to poor advantage, while the best
light and butcher-weiEht hogs are selling
to very good advantage. being sought after
especially by shippers.
Receipts of hogs this week. while falling
| nearly 5000 head below the record OF las
| week, nave shown a gain OF 5000 head
| ov6r the corresponding week OF last year.
The market has been advancing very rap
idly. The week started but with prices
Gl0c higher and there was a still furthe
advance on Tuesday. A part OF this no
vance was lost or Wednesday. but since