Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-03
WEEK OPENS WITH PRICES SAND
10 CENTS UNDER SATURDAYS
LEVELS.
TRADERS MANIFEST DESIRE
TO BUY CHOICE STEERS
Market For Best Grades Steady =
Trade in Sheep and Lambs Slow
Trade Conditions Compared to One
Week and One Year Ago - Current
Quotations at Livestock csnters.


mand brought a to 10 cent decline il
hogs today.
Receipts of hogs at Chicago stool
yards totaled 145.400 for the week, O,
1880 more than previous week, 23,6Ot
more than same week last year ant
3,oO0 more than corresponding weel
! two years ago.
Average weight of hogs at Chicago
for the week was placed at Pill lbs, OF
! ID heavier than preceding week. Il
lbs lighter than year ago and s lbs
heavier than corresponding week two
years ago. Official average weight fol
October was 20S lbs. the lightest since
November, 1911. and compared with
222 lbs in September and 226 lbs dur.
ing October, 1912
Top hogs for the week at Chica &c
reached $40 or 10 cents lower thar
previous week, soc higher than a yea,
ago, when market was breaking sharp.
ly. and $1.75 higher than two years ago
Average price figured sS.O5, against
s7.95 the preceding week, 1888 a year
ago and $6.19 two years ago.
Eleven markets received 1880 hogs
Saturday. making 471,000 for the week
or $4,000 more than previous week. g.
900 more than same week last year and
$4,000 less than corresponding week
two years ago. Total for 1918 to date
2o,125 .000 or $4,000 less than same
period 1919, and $1,000 more than cor
responding time 1911.
Cattle.
Choice steers were in good demand
and showed steadiness.
Biggest weeks run Of the year, g.
400. at Chicago, against 52,4s7 the week
before and 59,265 a year ago. gave kill
ers their first opportunity in many
weeks to lay up surplus Of bee, but
supplies at western points were quite
moderate and included no very gener-
GUS quota Of fat beeves. East there
were generous receipts. including q lot
Of Canadians, and this invasion rather
than the Argentine beef coming into
New York. Is chief competitive factor
against domestic product. Canada, II
is believed by traders. will SOM have
adjusted her prices. and supplies as
well to basis which will not permit
continued exporting Of volume noted
since the tariff was taken off.
Total run at six markets stood 1884,
400 for the week. against $4,000 the
week before and 214.600 a year ago.
Chicago shipped 27,263 cattle. against
1850 the week before. leaving 3s.10o
for local distribution. but it was a
comparatively small crop Of beef steers
which went east, the bulk of the in
crease in outward movement being
feeder cattle.
Eastern beef steer prices are lower
than locally. Traders returning from
easter markets assert this Is the rea-
son that the local market Is getting
small demands from seaboard. New
York call for heavy choice steers IL the
frmest feature of shipping inquiry, but
within few weeks, when the runs out
Of Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky will
have subsidized, renewal of good eastern
demand is expected in the local trade.
Quality the past week fell down from
previous week in the last month. sug-
costing q slowing-up in supplies OF
longfed cattle, and while November
will bring forth fair quota OF choice
steers, many Of which were fed to
catch this months demand for heavy
grades, proportion Of them Is not ex-
pected to run above trade needs, and
there Is brewing among sellers lot OF
optimism with regard to prices for this
class. Properly distributed over the
coming month, the big, choice to prime
steers should do strong price perfor-
but given an oversupply at
any one time. killers will be expected
to swing their bear clubs.
Sheep.
Sheep and lambs were slow.
On the basis Of closing transactions
fat lamis and ewes are generally 100
rs cents lower than the previous week.
tho the early market Saturday was
right back to the previous weeks best
levels and showed recovery Of the
decline Of Monday when the market
was handicapped by a run OF nearly
$4,000, the heaviest Of the year. Aged
wethers of good kind are fully as high
as a week ago and the .earling mar
ket is a nip higher on good ones. In
the feeder trade the good classes OF
feeding sheep and yearlings are STEADY,
while feeding lambs are steady to ir-
regularly higher, the most marked adj
vances being on the fair to good light
and medium weight sorts that, with
pee-wees, bore the brunt of the previ-
GUS weeks decline. Fewer light lambs
We're received last week than the pre-
vious, altfo bulk has been Of that kind.
and many such As to 55-pound lambs
as sold at $3.50 to 1925 the previous
week showed 25-cent advance, some
a greater gain. Trashy little pee-wees
are little changed and the best feed
ers, quotable at 1856 to $6.75 have
been higher in spots only, the latter
price having been paid late the previ-
GUS week but for better qualified lambs
than country buyers now have access
to-.
A Lot Of old range ewes were in
cluded in the run last week. but they
are selling unusually well for this time
Of the year. The $3.50 to $500 kinds
are vertitable old toothless shells. $3.15
to $3.50 feeders are short n3outhed and
good to choice feeders are making $3.50
to 1885. good culls $3.50 and decent to
choice tat range ewes are quoted 1t
- to $40, the $4.25 to $40 stun late
last week lacking choice olasA
Range stuff from Montana ana the
Dakotas will probably continue to run
for q few more weeks, but nearly all
lambs from that source now arc Of or
closely approaching feeder class, and
killers will have to depend on natives