The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-04
Kansas City Live Stock Market.

Kansas City, Feb. 4.-CATTLE-he-
ceipts 1000, including 500 southerns. Mar
ket steady. Native steers, $7.oas-75;
southern steers. s6.O@7.5O: southern caws
and heifers, $3S5a6-5o; native cows and
100; western steers, s6.5O@s.oo; western
HOGSLReceipts 10000 Market Sc high
err Bulk of sales, $7.45a7.6O; heavy, $500
7.Yo; packers and butchers, $75oq7.65.
light. s7.5Od7.6O; pigs, s6.25@7.3.
SHEEP-Receipts 10000 head. Market
steady. Muttons, $4Od5.60; Colorado
lambs, $7.Oods.5o; range wethers and year
lings. $5-oo97.5o; range ewes, $S.5oa5.OO-
Kansas City Stock Yards, Feb. s-After
considerable shuffling of prices in beef
grades of cattle last week net results left
the market unchanged from the close of
the previous week. Exceptions were
bulls, which lost % cents, and veal calves,
which closed so to rs cents lower. Stot k
ca lie and feeders revived from the de-
preston of the previous week. and ruled
sbout as high as Is o any te nhis al, nind
are steady to strong, and the market has
good action. The strong country demand
has been the mainstay of the market since
the first of the year, and so continues.
In January SIS, 900 cattle were taken from
here to farms and feed lots, representing
Sc per cent of the total receipts of cattle
here. That is an extra ordinary peTcert-
age for January, though not unusual Iof
the fall months. 1t was 1900 more tnan
went to the same trade last year, Mis-
souri, 1000 more, Iowa 1900 more and Il'i-
nois 4O0O more. The universal impulse OF
the country to get into cattle Is reassLr-
ing to those already in possession of
bovine animals, particularly breeding
stock and it is object lesson for those
who have roughneSS and other feed, aid
few cattle to consume it. Top beef steers
here today were second raters, at $3.50,
nothing in the first class being here, bulk
of the steers SIS to $50 quarantine
steers s6.35 to $40 today. Sixty cars ar
rived in the quarantine division here to-
day. Oklahoma and Texas have shipped
than
Beet sugar mill cattle and western hay
feds have not started freely yet they Will
meet a good demand whenever they
Hogs made net gains last week. light
weights coming strongly into favor. Tie
run is 5000 here today, market DC hlghei,
top $50. bulk $40 to s.. IS. Fresh pork
demand is taking almost the entire supply
al ali points now leaving small chance
So- accnmnlation. condition the reverse
of indicating lower prices Average
weight here in January 213 pounds. De-
cember 2o6 pounds, January last year lS9
sheep and lambs are climbing slowly
out of the cellar they were cast into last
Tuesday Run is 5000 today. market 1oc
to 15c higher, lambs at $3.50. year1ings
$50 wethers $50. ewes SEQ Commits
sion men are advising feeders that prices
will be high all winter, and to make their
j. A. RGCKART. Market Correspondent.
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 by
clay, Robinson & Co., live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
markets.
Kansas City Feb. 4.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 1000 head. Market steady
HOGS-Receipts 1900 head Market SC
to 1Oc higher. Bulk of sales. E.45I7.6O; |
top, s7.65
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head. Market
firm.
KILLING STEERS
No W.T. Price-lNo. VT Price. |
8--------12H $500 36---.-lo94 $l.4