Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Total receipts ..................
DISPOSITION.
Totals

CATTLE-The market as usual on a Sat
urday was bare of supplies of cattle, there
not being enough OF any one kind on sale
to really make a test of values. For the
week receipts have been quite liberal, run
ming about the same as last week ana
very satisfactory condition as viewed from
a sellers standpoint.
Under the Influence of q very active
buying demand on the part OF local pack
ers and shippers, beef steers have steadily
advanced this week and at the close Of the
week. In other words, cattle are now sell
ing at the highest point touched in a long
time. While no strictly prime cattle have
been received with which to test the full
strength of the market, still cattle have
been received good enough to bring $3.50.
What has been said regarding beef steers
would apply equally well to cows and
helfers. They, too, have been in very
tive demand and have sold freely at stead
lily advancing prices and are now 2Q4Oc
higher than week ago.
With very moderate receipts of stockers
and feeders and with a good country de-
mand cattle Of that description have also
Improved very rapidly. The rapid advance
In beef cattle prices has been source
Of great ENCOURAGEMENT to the country and
has stimulated much freer buying than
has been noted for some time back. At
the close Of the week anything at all de-
sirable could be quoted 25a4Oc higher than
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
cornfed steers, S6.5O97 rs; fair to
mon to fair cornfed steers, s. 76a5. rs; good
to choice cows and heifers, s.. O5a5 rs; fair
to good cows and heifers, S4.30Q60O; COM
mon to fair COWS and heifers, $2.?5lD450; good
to. choice stockers and feeders, A,7bd6.75
fair to good stockers and feeders, S4.259
40; common to fair stockers and feeders
heifers ssOOG4OO; bulls stays, etc, sss5
as. 10.
HOGs-The market opened on firm
basis this morning, about fifteen loads
selling at prices generally steady with yes
terday's early trade Movement was not
especially active however and the de-
mand by no means broad at these figures.
Only the more finished loads were wanted
and after their purchase, the demand Flat
tened out and It was a hard proposition
TO get any kind OF an offer on the balance.
Toward midday, however, after most Of
the hogs had been received and after lower
Chicago wires has been posted, buyers ap-
peared in the alleys ana demanded flat
nickel concession all along the line. with
the result that good portion of later ar
rivals sold at this decline.
A spread OF $3S568.95 bought up most of
the offerings as compared with yesterdays s
bulk OF sSS5G9.O0. Tops reached $9.05, as
compared with the same top of yesterday
The assertion that hogs have sold this
week the highest in the history Of this
market is true, but 1t is not true OF some
OF the older markets. Hogs sold in 1860
near the close of the civil war on the basis
OF $13 per hundred at Chicago. In 1870 a
The sensational prices paid for hogs at
all points this week did not come so much
from a shortage in receipts as from the
broad and urgent demand IN fact the
weeks run at this point is about 1900 head
| heavier than last week and about 1000 head
larger than the supply during the same
| week last year Almost $500 head were
sent in to this market this week and prices
went up to S9.05 on several occasions, which
is the highest price ever paid in the his
| tory of the local trade. The net advance in
values over last weeks close is pretty
| close to Csc There has been a broad ship
ping demand on most days and plenty OF
eastern orders indicate that that part of
| the country Is nra ctinaIlV hare of hogs