Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-18
HOGS HOLD STEADY
At OPENING PRICES
Sheep Closed Weak, With Big Run Of
Lambs, Made Up Largely Of Feeders
Muttons Showed Little Price
Change - Market Quotations at
Leading Livestock Centers.

| For the medium to good corn, warm
ed and short-fed steers the general de-
nand is bracing up 10 proportions
/ highly satisfactory. A!tno these are no,
getting the same brisk call as noted for
well finished grades. the fact that they
| are clearing more freely than a short
| time ago is evidencing some renewed
| killer interest as the range season
draws TO a close.
Packers are putting UP no general
complaint against beef outlet and since
they are holding wholesale prices on
stiff basis, after boosting numerous
cuts in recent days. it is suggestive OF
a fairly decent consumptive outlet on
the new price basis. The shipper de-
nand for strictly good 20 choice steers
also is showing all the strength which
could be expected. New York and
other seaboard cities report moder-
ately good outlet for beef and Chicago.
being about the only spot on the map
where anything like decent crop OF
strictly sood TO choice steers Is arriv-
ing. gets ali the best Of the shipper
business. while with the packers also
keen for weighty choice steers as well
as best yearing beeves. it Us wise
shipper who keeps his eye peeled this
way and lets mis- cattle come past some
OF the river markets where quantity
rather than quality is the chief feature
of receipts now, and has been for some
weeks past.
Kansas and Nebraska feeders who
have had cattle on grass and later fed
corn are letting numerous OF their hold
| -; rf
are proving very satisfactory
For the two days this week the run
has been $1,000, against a0,112 a week
ago and 47,9.O year ago. but despite
the increase in supplies practically
everything has had a genuinely good
demand. the medium and plain natives
going full steady in most instances
compared with last week. while
strong price basis Monday caught the
bulk of really fat stuff, and the selling
of IS and higher grades, where mater
tally changed from last week. showed
advance, all OF which tends to bear out
the assertion that the market is at
least a good one and not possessing an
inclination to get much worse. pro-
yided the feeders do not unload too
freely from now on merely because a
little sunshine is showing above the
gloom long prevailing in trade for stuff
below strictly good quality.
At the six markets thus far this week
supply has been $4,000. against $4,000
week ago. $4,000 year ago. and
I41 goo two years ago
Hoss.
Hogs held steady and the close was
active at oleninE prices.
Certain big interests in the hog trade
which have been persistent bears for
weeks past are said to be revising their
opinions on the future market
Well might they, in view of the pre-
mature marketing Of thousands of little
pigs in recent weeks, as result Of either
a cholera epidemic IN various localities
or fear OF its coming.
The big supplies Of pigs means mil
lliors OF pounds OF pork less few
n onths ahead than would otherwise be
available were the pigs in healthy con-
dition and held on the farms.
A firm European demand for product
calls for generous export supply. and
since The packers will reed a liberal
amount of product, both for domestic
and foreign use. one good way to in
/
young hogs, where the same are
healthy. is to cease hammerins the
market and allow the prices to take
their natural course.
| Dropping average weight OF hos
marketings is not cheerful to the pack
e-s. Semi-morthiy provision stocks
report shows that they have made
practically no new pork. while lard and
rib holdings are light.
The time to round hog prices Is
when supplies Of matured porke-s are
heavy and the surplus crop Of product
is also Of generous volume. That time
is not the present
There were 5000 more hogs at eleven
markets Tuesday than week ago. OIL
$4,000, which stood $500 larger than
! a year ago and 1G,70e larger. than the
corresponding Tuesday two years ago
Chicago received 1000 less than week
go and 5000 more than q year ago
Kansas City had 5000 more than 8
week ago and $500 more than q year
ago. Omaha had 1900 less than week
go and 1900 more than year ago
ST. Loui. had $500 more than a weet
ago and 1o,5oo more than year ago
ST. Joseph had 1000 less than week
ago. but twice as many as year ago
Sioux City had 1,4o0 less than weel
ago. Indianapolis had 1900 more thar
a week ago and 1880 more than q yea
iagc. Total thus far this week $4,000
CT 1900 more than the same periot
last week. $1,000 more than like time
last year and 10000 more than TIL
corresponding two days two years ago
Total for 1911 to date, 1881, 200, or 4,
100000 more than the same period 1911
and 100000 more than the CORE
spending time 1909.
/ Sheep.
Sheep closed weak. There was BIZ
run Of lambs made up largely Of feed
ers. Fat muttons showed little price
change.
Chicago Livestock.
Chicago, Oct. 1s.-Cattle--Estimat
receipts for today. 10000; market fol
good grades steady; others slow.
Beeves 49,. ............ ~: :.77ssSSse!
Texas steers ............ A10@6.1!
Western steers ........... 4.25W7.2t
Stockers and feeders .... 3.1O@5.7i
}! Cows and heifers ..... 2.0O06.St
HoRS-EStimated receipts for TO-DAY