Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-21
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raged turnout the vest ana southwest
ha1npered livestock receipts at the
yards today. 1t tied up traffic and made
! movement at the yards difficult. Cattle
prices showed gains Of 10 and Is cents
on both steers and butcher stuff.
Beef trade being in bad shape. the
killers are determined to get medium
and low quality beef at correspondents
| ly bad prices. but there is still no ma :
terial decline in wholesale cost of such
carcasses in spite Of the wide declines
they are showing in comparison with
selling rates early this month and
doubtless the mean outlet for the car
, casses in wholesale and retail trade is
due in no small measure to this price
situation.
The high quality steers Of bis
weight have a market all their own.
They have had it for weeks past and
as these kinds are becoming scarcer
almost each week 1t is only natural to
assume that as long as there remains
demand for Il certain amount of this
high priced beef at high rates the SELL
ing values of 1.4oo to 1900 pounds and
heavier, long-fed steers will remain at
q scant quota going above SO now that
the prices are not much Of criterion
and a glance at Mondays sales list
shows a very meager quota Of steers to
have landed above $3.50, while a right
good kind OF 1880 to 1900 pound steers
fed lot Of corn is going now around
S700@7.25, prices which are at least
30n4O cents lower than the best levels
81, o1,;v
1880 to 1880 pound grades which chief
discrimination is shown just now and
numerous Of these grades are going
down to $1,000 $50, the weightier stuff
making best rates, Of course.
For two days this week Chicago sup
ply stands 32.5s3. Mondays actual
total falling to 2S,os3. against the esti-
mate of 2e,onn In two days last week
there were 32,77s arrivals and a year
ago 35.oS7 came. In the west Tuesday
there were quite moderate receipts.
total at six markets falling to 24,200.
against $4,000 week ago and $4,000 a
year ago. while the two-day crop at
six markets this week, at $4,000, stands
5000 below a week ago and 1000 less
than year ago.
Lent opened today and for forty days
the killers will have an opportunity to
cry meat abstinence" as a factor SER
iously acting beef trade. but whether
it will have serious consequence is a
matter which must be decided later
on and supply OF steers coming in that
time will determine as we'll that beef de-
observance is no longer as strict as It
was years ago. There is a special dis
pensation granted members Of the
Catholic church engaged In manual
labor which permits them to eat meat
daily, with the exception Of Fridays.
and thus there is much greater con-
sumption Of meat in Lent now than in
years previous
Hogs.
Hogs were boosted 3 ard 10 cents.
with an early top of s6.371s.
There were 100000 hogs received at
eleven markets Tuesday, or $1,000 less
than week ago, 1880 more than i
year ago and 29,SO0 more than the cor
responding Tuesday two years ago. st.
Louis was the only market that had a.
larger number of hogs than week
ago, while no point had a smaller sup
ply than year ago. but most OF them
showed considerable increase. Total
thus far this week, $4,000, or $4,000
less than the same period last week,
$4,000 more than the like time last year
and 10000 more than the correspond
ing two days two years ago. Total for
1912 to date, 1921 900, or 100000 more
than the same period 1911 and 100000
more than the corresponding time 1910.
Sheep.
Sales OF sheep and lambs brought
gains of 10 and Is cents, compared with