Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-15
MARKET RULES STEADY AFTER
EARLY ADVANCE OF S
CENTS IS SCORED.
CATTLE TRADE STRONG
WHERE QUALITY SUITED
Buyers Inclined to Buy Only Good
Grades But Paid Steady Prices
Lambs 10 to IS Cents Lower-shsep
Are Scarce and Market Holds Steady
Current Quotations.

Chicago. July l5.-Hogs were steady
after cents early advance. Packers
refused to follow the raise.
Receipts of hogs ut Chicago stock
yards last week aggregated $4,000, or
900 more than the preceding week.
5 coo more than the same week last
year and 1470O more than the CORE
spending week two years ago. The cor
responding week in 1907 there were
il40.22s hogs received. Shipments for
the week were comparatively larger
than the previous one
Estimated average weight OF hogs
at Chicago last week was 23S lbs. or 1
II heavier than the week before, and
as heavy as any previous week this
year. while it was s lbs heavier than
the same week year ago and stood .
lbs lighter than the corresponding week
tuo years al go. The increased number
OF heavy hogs and the scarcity OF pigs
was responsible for the average weight
increasing. However, it is certainty
that hogs are coming from the coun-
try even heavier than it appears. but
the reweighing of many light and light
butcher lots helps to keep the average
down officially.
Top hogs for the week at s7.721 2
stood 2isc higher than the previous
week and compared with $3.50 year
ago and $3.50 the corresponding week
in 1910. Average price for the week
figured Si.4i. showing gam ol &C u'e4
the preceding week, and was SIC h1gh-
er than the same week year ago. Out
showed 1922 decline compared WITH
the correspondents week two years ago.
Cattle.
Cattle trade was strong where quail
ity suited the buyers.
Naturalization of $40 steers is ex-
pected within few weeks. by which
time the distillery crop will be all in
for the season. and. therefore, the
prime corn-fed steers are expected to
have the right of-wa altho $40
market for prime steers Will likely be
fought hard by killers VINO must GER
tainly meet strong consumer opposition
against further rise in cost of the prime
beef cuts.
Price widening now is merely nat
ural sequence of a highly inflated mar
ket for medium and plain steers last
month. They were not worth the money
then, and freer movement of such kinds
now together with consumers smaller
buying as result of hot weather, ~
bringing the values for in between
kinds down TO lower level.
Grass fed cattle vii form mig
quota of the runs shortly and they are
coming in generous quota nov. The
southwest is getting fair crop of
Texans and few weeks later this
season the northwestern range crop
will move into Chica go. Omaha, Sioux
City and St Paul. Then the trade
looks for still further mean going in
selling the native grassers. Too. there
is strong prospect of some thousands
OF Canadian range steers coming across
the line later this season and bringing
their owners fat profit, despite Uncle
Sans import duty Of 27lt per cent.
Chicago had 41.136 cattle last week,
against 35.o57 the previous week and
5s.s01 a year ago. while there were
shipped 1905. against 1853 the previ-
Gus week and 22.39s year ago.
Sheep.
Lambs were 10d15 cents lower. but
sheep were scarce and held steady.