Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-18
PRICES GENERALLY TO 10 CENTS
DOWN BECAUSE OF LACK OF
SUPPORT.
CATTLE CLOSE LOWER
COMPARED TO WEEK AGO
Heavy Runs Badly Upset Values and
General Market in Unsatisfactory
Condition From Sellers Point OF
view-Lamb Trade Lower, While
Sheep Hold Up in Prices.

Chicago. Nov 1S.-Swine demand
lasged today. and prices suffered a,
gercral ) to 10 cents decline, because
Of lack OF support.
Chicago receipts for the week 10
date tota! about LOCO. decrease of
1.Sc0 from like period last week and
1850 less than q year ago. Five mar
kets have received about 100000 thus
far this week. against $4,000 and 344.-
200 last week and a year ago. respec-
lively.
Decrease in receipts this week has
bee, Offset b. GemoralizeG condition OF
dressed and live markets down east.
Lamb trade has followed its frothy
NoIday advance ny sharp declines that
leave prices at the close barely steady
on choice fat classes. and weak to lower
on all other killing grades than a week
ago. Many lambs selling here late
Thursday and today below $3.50 nave
been in the lowest ,notches of the sea
son Yearlings have followed the course
ct the lamb trade, sales being Sharply
higher early in the week and Irregular
Is. lower since Lambs such as sold
here at high time Monday al $3.50
would row experience trouble beating
$3.50 and fed yearlirgs that reached
s5C005 Is early in the week have found
their duplicates at s4.5oG t.S9 since
Good matured muttons hare not oeen
numerous and while weakening from
MONDAYS best level close shade above
Thursdays low spot and mostly ioGl9
GERS hieoer than a week ago. Common
and plain killers. On the other hand,
sra f;;9.y as ,o- as at any time th-s
season. > good many HABITAT western
sheen ard lambs are being returned oil
wasi.y pastures that lack killing quail
;ty ard have to sell considerably be-
Low: their cost as feeders. Ssel!ers
strongly advise the holding back and
granting OF this stock wherever pos
sible. otherwise results are pretty
certain to prove disastrous 70 the
owner. Only by making the stuff good
ca, feeders hope TO break even or make
any money on the venture.
Cattle.
Cattle were lower for the week, heavy
runs having badly upset values.
Even the choice 10 prime steers nave
been hard hit There were steers sold
On Wednesday at 1905 q $40 which the
sellers declared were 1920 cents pei
Ter in finish than cattle when mace
the same prices last week, Whlie some
Of the steers of grade such as SOLO az
high point last Monday at 5000 $50
had 10 go Nedne sday and THURSDAY az
g. 25g, 20 tho these wide declines
we're the exception rather than 'ns
rule 25g4o cents break from Mon
day being the extent OF decline 1of
most OF sch kinds.
.Tri
If stalk fields and off pasture have
Jared relatively better than the me-
di,,n-priced grades, since the killers
aDDeareG 70 need liberal dose Of this
class of stuff and they were ALREADY
relatively low. The cheaper priced
GRADES have not gone much over 20
cents lower than at best time last
1 ,Inn6a+-. tho az Vas the case IN sell
! ine higher priced cattle. there were
/ instances of greater decline.
Western competition was still fac
,o,, in the trade for $3.50 q $50 natives.
and packers used the westerns as
! strong bear leverage in the native hne,
ai-ho there was no killer complaint OF
/ sluggish outlet for the beef. and II mas
( been evident all along the line that al!
4 .;rds OF beef. bought at the CHEAPER
rates. was meeting right decent recep-
lion in wholesale trade.
/ Gill as the thanksgiving season ap
2rcaches and poultry competition be-
comes more OF a factor in the bee
/ trade. it is natural TO expect some
slowing down in the outlet for beef
aud il will he a wise cattle shipper who
takes this into consideration next week
and operates accordingly.
after the deluge OF cattle this Wee
! the market is really due to get some
moderate supplies. put as weather IS
bad all over the country and severe
storms are imminent. there appears
general tendency TO liqnidate medium
and t:lir steers and save feed II Is
false economy TO save feed ana sacri-
flee steers a. low prices, and the cattle
owner, upon sizi-g up the TWO sitea :
lions. should reflect that few weeks
If corn feeding to steers already in
fairly decent shape will make them
FRAT much better, and they should get
IA decent killer reception at market
=. hen the early winter liquidation is
osnore.
Tbs weeks receipts stand third larg-
est for 1911. and have been exceeded
Ioniy n few times in the history OF the
Chicago market. In FIVE days $1,000
have arrived, against T3,036.a week ago
and 70.174 year ago, while at the sir
markets five days total stands $4,000
against POI GOO week and year ago
vhen there were larger receipts in the
western markets.
Shipper demand has fallen Off rather
than increased. and thus the situation
: has been thrown well into the hands OF
the local killers. Outward movement
totals only 2S.700. against 29,l15 weef
: ago and 32456 year ago. the eastern
I demand both for fat and feeding steers
having slurnped even in face OF shorter
= movement off arm-fed steers from tn
| eastern states, which indicates tina
heavy runs of eastern fed steers in re
cent weeks have piled UP beef sur
}. plus in the east. which will needs b
: worked into consumptire channels be
: fore the trade can look fer material:
T strengthened eastern demand for an.
q excepting right choice beef steers. II
II this connection the east is showing
disposition to substitute $3.50 OSLO
bulIocks for the kinds which are wortl
$3.50 n 900. and which usually get |
G strong New York demand, but OF lat