Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-07
PACKERS REFUSE 70
BID HOGS HIGHER
PRICES FOR AL GRADES EXCEPT
SHIPPERS HELD AT WE'D
NEspAY's LEVELS. ~,
CATTLE HOLD STEADY
ON LIGHT OFFERINGS
Bulk Disposed Of in Small Scattered
Lots, Best Reaching s7.so--Ranss
Steers stronser-shssp Steady and
Good Lambs Unchanged-Prices at
Livestock csnters.

Chicago. Sept. 7.-Shipping hogs
were little stronger, but packers gen.
orally would not pay more for packing
! hogs than they had at the previous ses-
sion The top for prime hogs vas 81 40
| Liberal hog receipts were recorded at
! eleven markets Wednesday and the to-
!; tai of S1,400 was 1890 larger than a
week ago, 23,4O0 larger than year ago
| and 22,4CO larger than the correspond
ing Wednesday two years ago. Chicago
| had 1000 more than week ago and A.
| 500 more than year ago. Kansas City
!. had 1000 more than a week ago and
! 5000 more than year ago. Omaha had
/ 1,4OO more than a year ago. st. Louis
received $500 more than a week ago
and twice as many as "a year ago. St.
Joseph had 1000 more than week ago
ana 1000 more than year ago. Sioux
| City had 1900 les sthan week ago and
| 1900 less than year ago. Three days
! total was 221,o0O, or $4,000 more than
! like period last year and $4,000 more
than corresponding time two years ago.
Total for 1911 to date, ls,5 900. or g.
| $4,000 more than corresponding time
in 1909.
Cattle.
Cattle were steady, the best going at
$50 and the bulk being in small scat
tered lots. Some of the better sorts OF
. range steers sold stronger. One lot
went at 81.
1t is significant to all concerned that
beef demand is trailing a rather bad
course just now, with the prices UP to
III oc;c he
! this week fail 10 act as stimulus to
the market. Chicago has had only 49,
900 cattle in the three days, against
| 51.573 week ago and 5s,s54 year
| ago. and in view Of the unsatisfactory
outlet for small supplies Wednesday.
it was we'll that the country has wise
ly conserved the run. What would
have happened had there been 10000 or
more cattle On the market Wednesday.
/! as was exnected Tuesday, may be sur
missed from the fact that buyers had
promised the market severe licking.
On the run at hand they were not able
to punish the prices very severely. but
since the general trade. barring top
classes, was several points worse than
on Monday, and sellers had hard
| time making a clearance, it was far
/ from a satisfactory deal.
| 1t is evident that killers have deter
mined on arresting the recently soar
| ing tendency of the market. They have
! snubbed it effectively and are trying
| to make it stick, but all the time thsy
used beef, being on a hand-to-mouth
| basis with a constant short run OF
westerns that bids fair to peter out
long before the normal time for wind
| ing up the trans Missouri beef round
! up.
| The eastern situation is decidedly
bearish Ohio, Pennsylvania, the Vir-
einias and Maryland are short of hay
! and hay is the factor that dominates
i the feeding situation down that way.
Not only are few cattle being put in
| but liquidation is in full swing. with
+. the result that eastern markets have
| been oversupplied and out of line with
/ Chicago Eastern killers are getting
F.! lot Of direct stuff out OF the south
! east their buyers having been on
! still-hunt in that territory for the pur-
pose of holding down prices here.
, Scarcity of hay has been responsible
! for much liquidation in the east, but
i this week the atmosphere has clari-
| fed somewhat and lessening run is
! expected.
t Sheep.
| Sheep were steady and good lambs
were unchanged.