Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
RUN UNUSUALLY LARGE AND
BUYERS, WAIT FOR DECLINES
OF 10 AND is CENTS.
CATTLE SELL At DECLINE -
OF IS AND IS CENTS
Market is Dull and Sales Are Made At
Big Reduction From Last Weeks
Closing Fisures-shsep Prices Are
Une;,anyea Sut Trade :. s!ew-eest
Lambs Purchased at $3.50.

~..iSaSo, jail z---I1OS ieCelptS we're
heavy and buyers looked for decline
Of 1O@15 cents.
Receipts of hogs at Chicago stock
yards last week totaled $4,000, or 81
0oo lighter than the previous week. 3D.
500 larger than the same week last
year and 41.900 more than the cprre
spending week two years ago. Grand
average Of the corresponding weeks Of
the past eleven years. which ranged at
143.141 to 259,326. was 190.ose.
Estimated average weight of hogs at
Chicago last week was 211 pounds. the
same as the previous week, Is pounds
lighter than the corresponding week
year ago and pounds HEAVIER than the
same week two years ago. Grand aver
age Of the corresponding weeks Of the
past eleven years, which ranged al 204
TO 22S pounds, was PA pounds.
Average price of hogs at Chicago last
week figured s6.29 or cents lower
than the previous week, s1.6S lower
than the same week last year and 1881
lower than the corresponding week two
years ago. Grand average Of the cor
responding weeks Of the past eleven
years which ranged at 1888 to $3.50,
was s608.
Combined receipts of hogs at eleven
markets last week totaled $4,000, the
largest number received during any
week since the one ending Jan. %, 1908.
when $4,000 was the combined supply.
The weeks run was $4,000 larger than
the previous week. $4,000 larger than
the same week last year and $4,000
larger than the corresponding week
two years ago Grand average Of the
corresponding weeks of the past dozen
years. which ranged at $4,000 to s52.-
600. figured $4,000. Total for 1919 to
date. 2.043.000 or $4,000 more than the
same period 1911 and $4,000 more than
the like time 1910. but 1900 less than
the corresponding period 1909. The
four-year average was 1,715, 900.
Cattle.
Cattle We're dull and those offered
we're at decline Of 15125 cents
Weeks supply has been moderate.
totaling 51.7o4. against 62,069 the
previous week and 7s,437 a year ago.
while a. the six markets there were
1920 cattle, against 1901 100 last week
and 500 a year ago. Still 1t was
not the fault of the country shippers
that the weeks crop was moderate.
Apparently the only reason the trade
did not get $4,000 to 10000 cattle last
week was the fact that severe : cold
weather Of the past two weeks has
tied up rail traffic. Cars are scarce.
They are being held in territory where
there are comparatively small supplies
OF stock, but the roads are unable 10
deliver them TO the shippers who want
them
Result is that a lot Of cattle have
been held by owners against their
wishes and breakup Of cold weather,
which will permit freer handling Of
cars, will undoubtedly cause a heavy
late January run. The trade is looking
ahead with a lot of fear tina, prices are
going to be hard hit in event that del
uge of habitat cattle land al market
here this week. Still the possibility
that excessive runs are coming is not
a strong one. Traffic conditions con-
tinue unfavorable in many sections
and this will likely act as a leverage
on the supply.
l, will take at least another week OF
moderated tempera ture TO thaw out
conditions and thereafter the traders
advice is TO go slow in cashing steers
and give the market chance to use
Or.E ,,uSt me HpsuiiiS c. .eS51 WHICH Is
actually needed in consumptive chan
neis.
one little satisfaction in the trade
recently has been freer movement If
800 to 1.c00-pound steers back 10 the
country. These were taken out OF killer
channels and thus the prices were
pretty well sustained, but market
oversupplied with such classes can
only prove a bad one.
AS regards high quality heavy
steers, there are orders 4{or two loads
where one is available. This situation
has existed for some time past and
supply prospect relative to this kind
makes it fairly safe wager that this
condition will continue indefinitely and
afford sustenance of current strong
prices for toppy kinds
Sheep.
Sheep were unchanged and trade
slow Best lambs sold at $3.50.
Outlook for early this week is not
luminous for the selling side as
serious congestion Of dressed mutton
supplies in the east is reported and
Chicago prices now stand relatively
high compared with Buffalo: