Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-31

TOTALS s.....s.s....... . 5000 oll
CATTLE-There were no fresh receipts
OF cattle this morning, at least none of
any consequence, and as practically every
thing was cleaned up yesterday, the market
situation on a Saturday. the receipts for
the week foot up over 1900 head, being
q slight falling off as compared with last
week, but a gain of about 10000 head as
compared with the corresponding week OF
last year. A feature of the weeks run
has been the large proportion of good,
heavy cattle that have been received. In
spite. of the fact that the price of corn has
been high, II is very evident from the
number of finished heavy cattle arriving
that feeders have ,practiced less economy
in the matter of feeding corn than might
be expected under existing conditions,
Owing TO the fact that all market points
have been very literally supplied with
heavy beef steers in the face of a small
expert demand, the market on that KIND
of cattle throughout the week has been
dull and prices locally are l0gl5c lower:
Handy light and medium weight cattle OF
good quality have been n moderate supply
throughout the week, and as they have
on that kind have been fully steady or
even strong. The trade on this latter KIND
OF cattle has been active at this point
every day throughout the week, while
heavy cattle have been more or letss OF a
drag.
COWS and heifers, especially the better
kinds, have been free sellers all the week,
without any material change in current
figures. On the other hand, common TO
Medium grades have shown a llue weak
ness and are around -l0c lower than one
The supply Of stockers and feeders has
been extremely light all the week. Whle
the demand has not been very large, there
have been a few buying orders and more
than could be filled. AS might be expected
under such conditions, the feeling on the
market has been very strong ana the
tendency a little higher although on most
days there have been hardly enough cattie
to make a test of the market or estaollsh
Quotations on cattle: Good TO choice
corn-fed steers, 6 .40q6.S5; fair TO good
corn-fed steers, s. .oOg6 g; ommon 70 lar
cows and heifers, IS. 1905. %; fair 10 good
COWS and heifers, A.5Oq5.4 40; common to
fair cows and heifers, s2bOgt 'S0, s q 20
to good stockers and Feeders, $4OO9a ~;
common to fair stockers and feeders $500
"a. 90; stock heifers, S'25a44 ~: ySsaais caves
"a. 00d7. Is; bulls, stays, etc, S5Odo.O.
HOGS-The market this morning opened
slow to sc lower and quite a number OF
hogs sold on that basis; later on; unoe1
and encouraging advices from other selling
points, the market took on more life and
strength. becoming active and strong 10
sc higher than yesterday. The early ar
rivals were all disposed of in good season
in the morning. A considerable proportion
sold at inside the range, s6sOgI.So
Receipts of hogs this week have been
very liberal, showing a gain OF over l9,OVl
head, as compared with last week and or
q, 600 head as compared with two weeks
ago, and i1.000 head as compared with a
year ago. The market has fluctuated 10 a
considerable extent. Thus at the beginning
OF the week II eased off a little, but ad-
vanced sharply on Tuesday and was con-
siderably higher on Wednesday. THURSDAY
was the high point of the week, hogs sell
ing that day the highest of the year,
which means the highest of any time since
March, 1903. The sharp break on FRIDAY
wipes out a good share or the advance,
but still at the close of the week the mar
ket is a shade higher than it was one week
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