The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-31
Kansas City Live Stock Market.

AdISdS CITY, Lee. C1.--GA
ceipts 5000, including 400 southerns. Mar
ket steady. Native steers, $6.5o99. 25;
southern steers, $5-o0@7.55; southern cows
and heifers, $3.50d6.25; native COWS and
heifers, So. 60QS.0O stockers and feeders
$5.00@76O; bulls, $4.4OQ6.5O; calves, $6.OO9
1000; western steers, S5.50Gs.50; western
cows, So. 75Q6.50
HOGS-Receipts $4,000. Market steady.
Bulk of sales, $7.15a7.4 40; heavy, $7350p7. As;
packers and butchers, $7.20d7. 40; lights,
$7.1017. 30; pigs, $5.50@6.50.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market strong.
Muttons, $S.75q5-35; lambs, $650Q8.e0;
range wethers and yearlings, S450d7.50;
range ewes, $3OOQ4.75.
Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec 30-A
run of 1900 cattle here today was sufii-
cient to remove little of the bloom &C
cumulated last week by the market, sales
of beef grades today ranging from steady
to 10c lower. Repair work to the extent
of % tC 80 cents was done on the market
lest week, more than that on fair to good
beef steers, though there was some weak
ness developed Thursday. Stockers and
feeders are steady to 1oc higher TO-DAY,
spectators and country buyers showing
no timidity account of the bad acting
of the beef cattle market. December cat
tie receipts here will foot up fully normal
a. compared with receipts for the month
for a number OF years back, and exceed
the supply of last December more :Ean
10000 head, or IS per cent. The best steers
arc selling S150 more below the high
time, partly because of a sharp decline
two weeks ago, but mostly because all
the prime cattle are SOlQ DeIOre CnTlSliIldS,
as a rule, hence quality or the highest
type is absent for a month or more after
tho holidays. Colorado bred steers, fed
in Kansas topped the beef market here
last week at 500, and bulk of beef steers
sell at 1915 to $S.25. Meal fed cattle are
running freely, and the best ones are sell
ing at Sc. IS to S7.55 here today. Total run
of Southerns here today SO cars, including
considerable Arkansas and Louisiana stun
ar $3.50 to $500.
The hog market is sc to 10c higher to-
day top $7.45, bulk $7.15 to S7.40 Owners
in the country appear to be having the
hest of the finish fight now going OH be
tween them and packers About the only
consolation packers have is n the nope
that later receipts of hogs will carry more
flesh, if they are not greater than eX-
pected and that after the spring pig crop
has been delivered, there will be extensive
fattening of old brood sows, with large
summer runs of heavy sows.
Sheep and lambs are strong TO-DAY, run
= 600 head top lambs $3.50. Lambs appear
safely entrenched above the eight dollar
limit and yearlingS are strongly held,
I'm TO $50 for light ones, WetherS worth
up to $5.35, ewes SAFE.
Kansas City Live Stock Sales.
1.-THE following sales were made this
morning at the Stock Yards, kansas
City, and reported over long distance
telephone direct to the State Journal py
Clay, Robinson & Co., live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at III
markets
Kansas City Dec. 31.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 5000 head. Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts 1900 head. Market DC
lower. Bulk of sales, $7.1047.35; top, l4V.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head. Market
steady. Lambs, $40.