Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-18
PRIME ANIMALS MAKE NEW MARK
FOR YEAR, SELLING UP
TO $40.
CHOICE STEERS FIRM,
OTHER GRADES STEADY
Some Lots Selling as High a. $s.4o-
sheepMarket Strons-Rsvisw Of Con .
ditions at Livestock csntsrs-cur.
rent Quotations.


! ing $500, the highest price Of the year.
! Chicago's receipts Wednesday were
about as expected at $4,000, not includ-
| ing a hold-over of 1886 Three days
+, this week Chicago has received 67.611
| hogs, which is 1918 less than the first
| three days last week, ISIS more than
the same period year ago and de-
crease Of 2.270 as against the CORE
+! spending time two years ago.
At other markets receipts were gen.
orally lighter than last Wednesday,
Kansas City and Omaha both reporting
1000 less. However. st. Louis. St. 10
seph and Sioux City received a trif1e
more, but summing up the total for
eleven markets, the number aggregates
S1,700, which Is decrease of 10000
/ from the previous Wednesday,, 800
less than the same day year ago and
$4,000 more than the corresponding
Wednesday 1910. Three days this week
at all markets bring the total up to
$4,000. decrease OF $4,000 compared
with the first three days last week.
$4,000 less than the same time a year
ago and 10000 more than the CORES
ponding period two years ago. Total
| 1912 to date aggregates S.5sS.000. or
1,2s3,0OO more than the same time last
year and an increase Of 2.7S3,000 COM
pared with the corresponding time
1910.
Cattle.
Choice steers were firm and other
grades We're steady
The considerable overrun Of supplies
as matched against popular expectancy
Of $4,000 to $4,000 for Wednesdays
receipts was laid to advancing corn
prices. A lot of shippers who landed
here unexpectedly with steers gave as
their reason for coming the fact that
old corn is getting very scarce in their
sections. and with the price rising fast
of late, and rush Of spring work at
hand. they made up their minds it was
a good time to cash in, since beef steer
market has been behaving we'll OF late
and afforded them profit in most in
stances despite the high cost Of their
! feed.
| That this tendency is becoming more
or less general was indicated by gener-
Gus receipts west Wednesday. alt1o
good many Of the river market arrivals
were Of kind which never had INDUCED
freely in corn diet.
The break in values Wednesday as
| regards bulk of steers put the general
list back to levels no better than shown
a week ago. but the market has been
on such a high basis Of late that log
Is cent cut in prices does not cause
gloom among the traders. and buyers
say they're entitled to 1t in view OF
high beef cost and the stror@s tendency
of wholesale and retail prices to follow
suit when prices go higher in steer
| trade. The consumer. as a factor in
regulating beef prices, is beginning to
show his hand and will do so more
forcibly in event that beef goes much
higher, since his pocketbook will hardly
Withstand the strain, and therefore les
sened consumption Of beef and great
buying Of eggs. poultry and vegetables.
commodities all cheaper in price than
beef, should result.
Sheep.
Lambs made q new top mark today,
selling up to $s40. Sheep were strong.