The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-26
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KANSAS CITY STOCK
MARKET.
). Rickart, Correspondent.
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Kansas City Stock Yards, May 22.-l
Cattle receipts shortened up last week
after Tuesday, and the market regain
ed the loss of the first two days by
the end of the week An incipient
scare about the possible effect of dry
weather on pastures was noticed late
last week in market circles, but the
general rains that have fallen in the
last two days have effecually squelch-
ed it. A few stock cattle are here to-
day that were started to market from
some dry spot but the 5000 cattle
received here are chiefly made up of
normal movement. A feature this
month has been the light supply from
below the quarantine line and this is
responsible for the decrease of around
10000 cattle here so far this month as
compared with same period last May.
Another thing about which the wise
ones have been figuring for some time
is the fact that total cattle receipts at
the five leading markets of the coun-
try so far this year show shortage
of per cent from the average re-
ceipts at the same points for the aver
age for the past five years, while the
population of the country has increas-
ed II per cent in the same period. An
other thing, exports of cattle are in
creasing, 10000 head went out of the
country in April, 1900 head same month
last year Exporters can operate when
/ beef gets under six dollars. Accord
ing to all logic, cattle prices should be
on the up grade, and so they are to-
day, steady to strong. Top steers
bring around $615, bulk $5.4O to $500,
cows 1918 to $5.15, heifers $475 to
$500, bulls dull, $400 to $500, calves
$500 to $500, Colorado sugar beet
steers today $5.40 to $5.S5, quarantine
fed steers $3.50. caked steers $4.75 to
$5.25, grassers $3.50 to $500, stock and
feeding cattle firm today, at $500 to
$5.75.
Hogs did very well first half of last
week, but met some reverses the last
half The run today is II 900, market
started out at it's worst, but finished
little better than the start, to 10
lower than Saturday, top $5.95, bulk
| $3.50 to $500. Packers are anxious
to take the. hogs at present prices, and
seem able to dispose of their purchases
readily The recent Cudahy predic-
tion that the four cent hog would ap-
pear within two months is not taken
lieved that receipts will have to be
extraordinary this summer and fall
to force prices lower than $3.50 Lard
exports are three times as heavy as a
year ago. and the foot and mouth dis
| ease has caused the government
slaughter of lot Of hogs in Germany
this spring, pointing to a good outlet
there for the product later on.
Sheep have advanced fifty cents in
the last week, goats likewise, and
lambs have jumped up one dollar in
that time. A good share of this rise
came today, and the market is popping
Wooled lambs brought $500 today
spring lambs $6.75, clipped lambs
worth $3.50, clipped wethers $500,
ewes $3.50, fat goats today $780,
brushers $3.50. The run today is 10,-
0O0 A fire in the sheep barns here
last Thursday consumed the east half
of same, but left the west half, in
cluding one scale, intact where busi-
ness is progressing as usual.