Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-15
CHICAGO Horse Market.

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and the condition of many of the offer
ings is too poor for the requirements
Of the trade Prime drafters are nom
,nally steady at s210@250 and upwards
A few dealers are looking for drafters
of extreme weight and finish for in
dustrial use and show purposes with
but few of this grade reported on the
market. Extreme prices for show
draft horses the current year have
ranged at sS50@45o and matched pairs
cleared at s700@S50, with but few sales
recorded for fancy animals of extreme
weight The quality of the receipts is
below the normal average and buyers
hedge in competing for thin offerings,
the range for such classes being wider
at wholesale markets than in the coun-
trS Where thin horse will sell for
nearly the price of a fat animal. Thin
pound horses sold down to $50
and l2oo-pound thin classes cleared at
ssoG100. Fat horses are steady at
classified prices. but off condition
classes sell at uneven values, princi-
pally on speculative account. Drivers,
saddlers and business chunks are mod
erately active.
stockyard and Trade Notes.
Hogs sold down to $500 shortly after
the panic of 1907.
Hogs have gone higher this season on
strictly supply and demand market
principle. The supply has run below
demands, and until the affairs in hog
trade are adjusted to more equitable
footing, as regards supply and demand,
the market is going to remain high,
even possibly going to a considerably
higher basis than now prevails.
In forty days pork has moved up $3.50
for September. lard s1.10 per 100 pounds
and short ribs over 81 per 100 pounds.
Hogs have not entirely kept pace with
the advance in product, altho they sold
up to $3.50 the past week, the average
price for the week being s7.51, COM
pared with s7.42 the previous week and
s5.54 year ago. Those who are en-
Enthusiastically bullish say prices will
have to advance to a point where con-
sumption is effectually checked and
prices for the moment cut no figure.
Shipments OF lard and meats are in ex-
cess of last year.
Seventy-two loads of Texas cattle
WEI OAA Tic Aldi NET yesterday anu ldu
their effect on plain and medium ma
tives
Demand for mich cows lately has
been slack, because dairymen are well
supplied with fresh cows and are get
ting all the milk they can sell. De-
mand centers on the good to choice
stuff and there is very little sale for
the common to medium grades. Prices
are 1895 lower than week ago
| with the best cows selling at $50 and
very few above s45. Fair to medium
s3o@35.
Peter Pence, of Payette, Idaho. re-
Gently marketed 1850 sheep at Fair
banks, Alaska. They were shipped
from Seattle to Valdez, Alaska, and
| driven from there $50 miles overland
to Fairbanks, a trip of thirty days. He
got about % cents a pound for them
delivered there.
a. W. Cornwall, Ellston, one of the
extensive shippers from southeastern
iowa. was on the market with cattle
and hogs. 1t has been pretty wet in his
section, but reports crop prospects
quite favorable.
! E. S. Mcdonald, Bayard. a prominen,
stockman and big feeder had in five
loads Of mixed hogs of his own feeding
good enough 10 bring s7.s5.
F. O. Nutting. Indianola. was here
Monday with load of butcher stock O
his own feeding. His COWS and heifer.
sold at $3.50 and s4.75