Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
SUPPLIES NOT PLENTIFUL BUT
DEMAND ALSO SHOWS FALL
ING OFF.
MARKET HOLDS STEADY
WITH QUOTATIONS UNCHANGED
Cattle Market Weakens When Supplies
Observation-Disclosures of Butcher
Stock and Feeders Especially Heavy
--lrresuIarity Noted in Sheep Di-
vision-Choiee Lambs in Dem and.
Cattle Market weakens Whe

not great enough to force prices up
ward. The market was steady at yes
terday's average.
Packers attempts to smash the hos
market are proving about as effective
as some of the government trustbust-
I ms suits that result in a fiZZe.
Eleven markets received $500 hogs
Thursday, or 2,100 more than lasi
Thursday, 32,400 less than year age
and 1900 less than two years ago. Total
four days this week, $4,000, or $4,000
more than the same period last week
1900 less than the like time last year
and $4,000 less than the corresponding
four days two years ago. Total for
1918 to date, $4,000. or 1,126,000 less
than the same period 1912 and 3S1 more
than the corresponding time 1911.
Cattle.
The cattle market was weak and
oversupplied, especially as to butchers
stock and feeders.
This decline in face of the scant re-
ceipts since Monday plainly indicates
that the overgrown run that day was
large enough to afford both killers and
shippers a coIlsi dcrabie surplus of beef
They apparently are needing little of II
now and next week. with eggs working
down in cost, there promises to be the
smallest beef consumption Of the year.
Country shippers should take cogniz
ance Of this, and act accordingly Dan
ger signals were flying Thursday, warn
ing country operators 20 keep down
the run here next Monday. and general
opinion was TO the effect that the cattle
trade is going to need not over 10000
cattle that day, and that crop much
larger can only be expected to recipro-
cate declines and wipe out practically
all the early March appreciation
The only steers which have had
really good demand since Monday have
been fat 1850 to 1850 lb. grades and
buyers stated yesterday that not in
months past have they found fewer of
such grades. The majority of handy
weight cattle are lacking in good dress
Ing quality, and this is the factor which
interests killers more than the weights,
since current cost makes poor dress
ing animal stand relatively as high
in the beef as the right good to choice
quality sorts.
AS weather warns up the demand for
big weight carcasses is expected to fall
off materially, but while there was a
generous quota Of these grades here at
the start this week, only a small sup
ply has since arrived, and the belief
exists that no very liberal crop Of long
fed l450-lb and bigger beeves will be
available for the next few weeks.
The light and handy fat corn-fcd
steers should have relatively best call.
however, bat an expected free move
ment Of southwestern stuff into river
markets in the next thirty days would
seem bar to any very brisk demand
for the plain and medium short-fed
steers in the local trade Caution will
be required in marketing these kinds,
particularly in the next two weeks,
since expected shrinkage in beef con-
sumption, due to cheapening cost of
eggs, should affect the demand for
them as we'll as the weightier beeves.
The supply map is by no means indi-
eating a generous crop as likely to be
available for the next thirty to forty
days. and with the Lenten season near
ing an end. the trade argues that es-
tablishing a permanently strong and
staple market is up to the producers
themselves and dependent upon their
disposition to balance supply with de-
mand.
Sheep.
Irregular;ty was noted in the sheep
market Choice light lambs were in
demand. Heavyweights were not
sought.
High tenlpera lures thruout the coun-
try and especially along the Atlantic
seaboard, and accompanying sluggish
and lower dressed mutton markets
was a factor of depression, and plenty
of evidence was furnished to the effect
that the needs of the trade will be met
by light supplies for the near future
altho demand for some choice hand!
weight lambs for eastern Easter mar
| l.ets is still noted and there should he
fairly good call for such goods here
during the forepart of next week fol
local and nearby trade.