Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-13
PRICES GENERALLY IS CENTS
LOWER, WITH GREATER BREAK
IN SPOTS.
PACKERS GET SUPPLIES
sTo 10 CENTS UNDER 81
Holdings Fairly We'll Cleared at Lower
Prices-choes and Heavy Weight
Cattle Steady. With Bulk Of Steers
10 Cents Lews-shssp Continue Up
ward Trend.


tie and heavy weight sorts sold at
steady prices today The bulk OF steers
were weak to 10 cents lower. Butcher
stuff did not show much change in
price
/ Receipts for last week were 4seoo
against $4,000 last week and $4,000 a
wear ago While there were 132.4oo cat
tie az six markets. comparing with
11sloO last week and 10000 a year
ago. supply map thus falling to show
any very heavy volume Of marketing.
and eltho Chicago has had by far the
/! biggest share OF fat hullocks. even tho
! the proportion OF them here this week
>s-ll little short Of previous weeks
there were still full enough to go the
rounds.
Until the demand for beef grows thru
! and is encouraged by lower wholesale
prices. the trade can well get along
on comparatively lisht run and since
here is gaining evidence that cattle
e,e being held In stronger hands the
impression prevails that the season has
f: passed when big marketings may be
expected. Nothing in the situation.
however. offers inducement for the
feeders 70 hold onto big weight steers
since the trade for that class is we'll
.rder control OF killers. AMI by reason
! ~ relatively poor call for This class OF
| beef prospect Is not found for higher
prices. In fact. as weather warns up
the big steer. are 'ikely to be reiterated
70 still further mean favor with con-
sumers. and the handy-weight and
yearling kinds hit liberal price pre-
MUM
| Last week yearlings did an unusual
stunt. topping at 1913, and another load
at 1928, the highest prices Of 1911 to
date, but both loads we're Of exception
ely prime quality and such as have not
been seen before previously this year.
choice heavy steers, on the other hand.
scld at $3.50. and orly a rather short
crop OF big weights made 3e.to@eso. A
spread Of ss.1o6e.eo has taken the bulk
Of good to choice handy and strong
weight steers. while late this week
there was a fair sp-,nkling Of $3.50
i s 40 business In medium to pretty enod
| light and handy 'ot' which had been
fed considerable corn. Cattle down to
81 20 have been merely warmed up light
stuff, however. and feeder buyers got
numerous OF that kind as well as some
selling up to s5.7565.eo. a1tho the kill
ers took some common light stun which
had run in stalkhelds down as low
az IS.
! Speculation as to what Will happen IN
/: the cattle market this week runs both
ways. Some contend shat supply xi1
continue light while others contend that
considerable liquidating has vet to be
; tone. and that lower prices are not inn
probable. Mondays guesses range from
90, 900 20 &c 900. The market has not
acted we'll this week and It is very
Z. ident that continued light deprecia-
l. On Is to be prevented. The selling
side does no: concesl Its disapooiat-
,rent at what happened on Wednesday.
- the >c-ose prices were somewhat
stronger than on the nidweek low spot,
but generally 10G15c lower than Mon
day which eliminates all that was put
On at the opening OF the session. While
there was some demand for cattle sub
sequent to the slump Wednesday, few
were available and the whole weeks
run has been very light. Prospects are
for more cattle next week. not mai"
more, proba ably, 5n: few more any,
way. as the country has been repress-
ing the shipping impulse TO give the
market a chance to right itself and that
always means an accumulation tina:
must be cut loose.
Hogs.
Hogs were generally Is cents lower.
There were spots where the break was
greater, but the average was no more
than at first indicated. Bulk OF hogs
sold within range Of $500 and 800.
Good butchers sold UP to $7o5 and light
at sos and 37.15. Packers got their
hogs for $500 and sos. Prospects were
that there would be fair clearances Of
! holdings. Packers were good pur-
chasers.
The feature Of the past week has
been the avidity with which the stuff
has been taken. The run is about 1885,
600, or 5000 more than the previous
week but shippers have taken around
AZ, 900, or 1900 more than the previ-
Gus week. so that packer. have not pro-
flied. They have cleaned up the crop
every day. At the prices packers evil
IDENTIFY regard hogs as good investment.
Their present motto Is to buy them
when they are to be bought.
| About the most difficult thing to
buy in tho stock yards now Is a load
OF bacon hogs Weight Is not the fac
tor as the 100 pound stuff Is COM
ing too fat to suit the average bacon
curer who must keep the quality Of
l;. ~,oaa IN IN 4$ay,darA mr. 1naA his