Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-19
PACKERS REFUSE TO BUY HOGS
AT SATURDAYS PRICE LEV
ELS AND TRADE is SLOW.
HOLDERS COMPELLED TO
coNcEDE 10 TO IS CENTS
Trade Draes to Late Close. With
Many Held Over-CattIe Trade Slow
and Trade Weak in Spots-Heavy
Receipts of Live Mutton and Market
is Weak in Spots.

,.. l,,. .l,u. ,ra1 ,,as weak in
Nc 'V'''S
spots but steers and COWS fu-ed steady
I Prime steers We're quotable up - $40.
/ i,-l a !a'e hour hNeii '''s'''''i
/ we're disposed Of more readily late IN
ba ,rasa
7,.I. 49, ..,,,al,- r.ya,ad in an
fs'eA7FS 'i"'e >-''''''S
orgy Of price-cutting all along the me
which does not eugur we'll for improved
si-i i, .ha week. ahead unless
~, -, f-i,..n dose Of lighter re-
nai,,.s Trgb ~ the beef going into
49, ~. sur.,,iIs stocks. since sun
mt. r,,,,ri1e ear ahead of current
,.,,,,..s ara II Mi, REQUIRE a period
E iish, rms to offset trrning up OF the
,.a,,,as
I-r,i tho excessive runs west are
.as,ktl there l.. nor much chance of a
Sowing down i1 local receipts MANY
cattle holders appear anxious 10 IL
ai!jfia.e th,. Hight and habitat stuff
.a,her than kee9 i ard feed corn. I. is
The Killers seas IN Cor putting up cheap
beef and thes cling contingent is not
III hopes OF materially blocking their
game al least until western runs SLOW
DOM a few points.
a year ago market got about SUCH
dose as las week, values for the big
end OF HE crop declining 25o 40 cents
rom the Week previous There Vas
then a rush TO liquidate the MALT fats
litao big proportion then made be-
ter prices man we're received last week
Receipts showed the effect Of the
Z arinS r-ireS were SUD-
5ected % last week. Holders refused 10
Jet 60 Of their animals al the breaks
and the result mas been limited mar
keHAs- BUYERS TO-DAY showed Will
lngness % pay steady prices, out no
peter. Packers neld out eenaclous!E lI
holders conceded 100 10 cents from
Saturdays values GOOD packing
grades, however We're steady Trade
dragged 70 lo'e close, with several
/! thousand hogs again unstable
Light hogs have been abnormally
scarce al summer and bacon curers
have been hoeing tough row, but pros
poets show little improvements from
their standpoint. II prices OF heavy
nogs continue attractive TO the grower
and there IS no reason 70 justify the
contrary expectation. bacon material
will be scarce, and command prem
ium right along Every time the hog
market comes back. as II did last week
the grower concludes that light hogs
are good property and replenishes the
feed trough with corn. Weights con-
tinue unseasonably heavy, Chicago's
average last week having been PSI
pounds against PA a year go. August
average weights a western markets
indicate how profitable the grower has
~ -i,,c, .ecr
into pork. That Al Chicago was go
pounds. against 232 last year; at Ora-
ha 259 against 23e: at Kansas City 9o6,
against 2Q3: at St. Joseph 239. against
go; and a. Sioux City e6.. against
Tia August average weight al these
five markets vas rs pounds, against
227 last year. Reduced 10 pounds +
means that the 1.097,945 hogs
reaching the FIVE principal markets in
Angus. weighed 269.oo5.525 pounds,
against 22s. 705.2o4 pounds for the L.
oG7,5l2 head that came in August, 1909.
Fresh pork Is not Vet in the same
luxu-y category as lobster but the
current price IS unprecedented, the
wholesale price Of pork loins having
reached 19 cents during the past week,
Re-ailers, pursuing their policy Of
charging all The traffic vii bear. have
been asking and getting anywhere
from - . - cents a pound and the
surprising thing is that killers can not
supply their trade with pork loins at
The prices Loins have been 3 cents
higher than in March when hogs We're
81 higher, another trade puzzle But
whiie fresh pork can be sold without
t~ouble -rada in cured meats is slug
gish The south is not buying ribs as
freelv as usual at this season and kill
IL fresh cuts as compensation. The
trouble with the hog product at present
is. not only that Il is costly, bu. every
BODY anticipates a slump. Dealers get
quick acton on fresh pork, but are not
disposed . fiji their shelves with cured
meats tina. require time to merchan-
disc.
Receipts Of hogs at the Chicago stock
yards las. week totaied $4,000 being
1000 loss .han arrived the previous
week. nearly 5000 more than the cor
responding week a year ago and 100
! less than two years ago. Estimated
average weight for this week 25s lbs.
against 257 lbs. the previous week, 22e
i1ts a ,-ear ae,,, orl,. o1a lJe two wears