Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-10
NO DEMAND OF IMPORTANCE
FROM BIG KILLERS BUT
PRICES HOLD.
PRIME HOGS AT $3.50,
MANY SALES AT s6.25
Cattle Market Nominally Unchanged
Compared Wiki Fridays Prices
Bulk of Sheep Arrivals Come Direct
to Packers-Review Of Market Con-
dtons and Current Quotations..

We're quoted ct $3.50 and there was Il
liberal number of animals around the
$50 mark.
Combined receipts of hogs at eleven
markets Friday totaled 10000, or 300
more than week ago 1920 more than
year ago and 500 more than CORE
spending Friday TWO years ago. Chi
ca go received ! 900 less than week ago
and 1000 less than year ago Kansas
City has 5000 more than week ago
and 1000 more than year ago Omaha
had 800 more than year ago St.
Louis had $500 more than year ago.
St Joseph had $500 more than week
ago and 1900 less than year ago. Total
thus far this week 10000. or $4,000
less than same time last week, 155. 1000
more than like period last year and
1900 more than corresponding five
days two years ago Total for 1911 to
date l1.05a,0oO. or 2.5S5.o00 more than
same period 1910. but $4,000 less than
corresponding time 1909.
Cattle.
Cattle were steady. the market being
noninauy unchanged from the prices
OF yesterday.
Bottom has dropped entirely out OF
the maltet for common and medium
yearling lambs. yearlfngs and ewes this
week, such classes going down to the
lowest levels of the season and closing
on the bottom Of decline thst meas
ures anywhere from 80 cents to 81 from
prices current week ago grassy ma
tive lambs being hardest hit. Dry-lot
clipped lambs, good TO choice spring
and fed wethers have not done SO dis
creditable stunt, but declines Of from
25050cents have been enforced on the
best shorn lambs, and the best wethers
could not be sold today a less than
2504 40 cent reduction from last Tues
day, altho 10 n - cents covered the de-
cline on them from last weeks clos
ing basis. Good TO choice spring lambs
are about as high as week ago; 9TH
ers are largely % cents lower.
i has been a case Of a badly over
supplied market very sluggish dress
ed trade on heavy mutton carcasses
and a flood of grassy stuff Of mediocre
quality here and at other markets.
Chicago receipts for the week foot up
the enormous June week total of about
% 400. a gain of $4,000 over like period
last week and $1,000 more than a year
ago Five leading western markets
have received about 10000, which is
23,Uvo more than last week and $500
Of the local supply close to 10000 head
were direct to packers, consisting al
most exclusively of southern spring
lambs from the Ohio river markets and
St Louis. They are coming good and
their presence in such quantities cas-
i!y accounts for the demoralized condi-
ton O fthe trade on trashy and medium
grades Of nation stun coming, while
the consuming public is tabOoing
heavy mutton meat in a manner that
is thoroughly demoraiizing that mar
ket
Spread in prices IS extremely wide
and the market very uneven and hard
10 quote satisfactorily. The last Colo
rado fed shOrn lambs Of the season got
in at the close this week and sold up TO
s7.20u740, latter figure being the high
est of the season, but this popular high
dressing stuff is now out OF the way
and It is doubtful if there is a load of
yearling lambs feeding in the country
that would now beat s6.T5. a spread
Of SIS - q so is taking the best Of the
fed westerns here at the finish, while
not one bunch Of native lambs in a
hundred is good enough to make Sc.
At 5000 $50 killers are securing de-
cent TO good grassy natives that are
close 70 81 lower than one week ago,
and if they weigh 100 pounds or more
they have TO he choice to get s.. Culls
sell largely from s4.0OI4.50. Fair TO
best spring lambs are quotabIe from
SS.250725, culls selling downward as
low as 81 Good to choice kinds, local
~, are scarce and meeting a pretty
good demand, but as Louisville stock
has been selling up to s7.75 prior to
Thursday, sellers have protested that
the best sorted kinds We're relatively
low here, altho it is admitted that the
choice southerncrs are better than any
thing selling here.
Sheep.
Sheep and lamb prices were a little
more than nominal the run being made
llp almost entirely of southern lambs to
packers direct.
Price spreading. which began ten
days ago, has been continued this week
and there is strong prospect that it
will prevail for some time ahead. Texas
cattle competition is holding down val
ues for medium and lower grade ma
tives, while the fact that crop of good
to choice steers Is falling short of VOL
ume recently marketed is one boost
ing fuence in trade for well finished
prices for the latter grades is the
smaller crop of finished steers being
bought in the east just now, which
compels shippers to give the local mar
ket better support. Also there are
prospects OF the Kentucky stiller crop
running about out in the next two
weeks and this is expected to create
still little firmer eastern demand.
Exporters are doing a moderate vol
ume of business, while getting fewer in
Canada than they figured on, and since
their demand is for wellfed 1900 to
145O pound kinds, these classes are be-
ing helped by this competition. In the
light and plain steer trade the situa-
ton. however, Is different, since it is
largely packer demand with little
feeder competition and the $3.50
kinds are not killing out we'll enough to
put them in good favor with packers as
ivs.., 10 cSs.s5 st@:i comes freely. Fifty
two to So per cent native dressers at
| this time Of year do not look good to
packers. az against the So per cent
! dressers Of good grade. since the Texas