Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-31
SHIPPERS FAIL TO TAKE HOLD OF
THE BUYING SIDE OF THE
MARKET.
CATTLE SELLERS HAVE
ALL THEY CAN HANDLE
Conditions Same in Chicago and Other
Centers and Demand Proved Uneven
Buyers Hold OF in Sheep Trade
and Force Price observation-disclosures
of Market Conditions.

| Chicago, July 31.-Held-over supplies
acted as a weight today on the hog
f, market Shippers did not take hold
briskly.
Shippers had some urgent orders and
spectators took hold with more free
shade higher market for better grades,
but business on higher basis was only
a flash in the pan" AMI the market
settled down to a lower range. Late
trains brought in quite a liberal pro-
portion of good to choice offerings and
bids on this class were fully 10 cents
below best quotations of the morning.
The market closed yesterday top heavy
with a number left in the pens. While
good packing classes sold fairly well,
the grassy and common kinds were a
drug on the market Sales ranged at
Ss.25@9.5O, bulk at sS70@9.10. Grassy
stock sold largely at 1925 $50, with
throw-outs at seas. Pigs were in
smaller supply and sold about steady at
s4@9, comparatively few above $3.50.
Stays sold at ss.1o9s,50.
Cattle.
Sellers of cattle had all they could
handle here and elsewhere, and de-
mand was uneven.
Good to choice yearlings acted better
than anything else. The run carried q
generous sprinkling OF Ss25@s50 little
cattle and they looked close to steady.
Prime yearlings were in a class by
themselves. 1910 being paid for two
car lot Of 1152-pound ''oabies' from an
Illinois feed lot. Fat 1000 to 1885,
pound steers selling around $3.50 were
10 cents lower and the good $3.50
a scant dime.
The Burlington furnished the big end
Of the run and there was liberal
showing Of light steers, that are being
forced to market by dry pastures. In
large sections Of both Illinois and Mis-
souri, grass has gone and feeders are
up against the alternative OF dry-lot-
ting their stuff or ordering cars. Light
cattle have been selling we'll in rela-
tive sense and there is incentive to
cash them. especially with a retro
grading corn crop. but as the supply
of this stun increases the spread shows
a tendency to widen out. This VIII De
a seasonable movement, but llght run
OF westerns is expected to hold the
spread somewhat narrower than usual
The country is still full Of old corn and
that means weight.
Sheep.
Buyers held of in the sheep trade
and forced a reduction.
Native lamb trade was Is to % cents
lower on the bulk, tho sales were made
Of few Of the best natives on about
a steady basis with packer purchases
Of yesterday. Feeding lambs continued
in strong demand and sold firm. In the
sheep end Of the trade. the irregular-
ties shown in the lamb market were
also in evidence. Mosts heep and year
lings sold lower, showing 10 to rs cents
declines In extremes, tho some range
wethers held UP to fairly steady
basis and there was call for feeding
wethers and yearlings sufficient to hold
all such offerings available to firm
price level, tho there was. very little
demand for feeding ewes, and stock eve
trade, excepting for some choice year
lings lost the edge 1t showed earlier in
the week.