The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-11
Kansas City Live Stock Market.
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Kansas City, March 11.-CATTI.E-Re
celpts 12,OoO, including 800 southerns. Mar
h a' weak. Native steers, $7.75@9.Oo; south
ern steers, $6.25GS2 Is; southern cows and
heifers. S4.25Q7. Is; native cows and heifers
$4-zoQS5O; stockers and feeders S. 1905 so:
pulis, so.25q7.0O; calves, $6.50Q10.00 west
100 oo"S' S1''VV
HOGS-Receipts 10000 Market higher.
Bulk OF sales, IS. 4oQS.6o; heavy, S. s5as5o;
QS.65; pigs, $4,000. 70.
SHEEP-Receipts 10000. Market steady.
= M Ia S50Oa6.6S; Colorado lambs, 5000
8.76; range wethers and yearlings IS. 750D
7.65; range ewes, s4.50Q6.5o.
Kansas City Stock Yards, March To-
Advances of Is to 40 cents were made on
kilnng cattle last week, and the close of
the week saw prices the highest ever
known on middle and low grade stuff
choice to prime steers of heavy weight re-
cevled the small end of the gain, but
they sold up to $500 nearly every day, and
with little effort on the part of statesmen.
Stock cattle and feeders sold higher the
1lrst days OF the week. but their upward
course was halted after Tuesday, and
owners had to take off the advance of
the first days to effect a clearance, and
the finish was dull. Receipts here today
amount to II, 900 head, one thousand more
than last Monday. and Chicago has four
thousand more than was estimated for
today, facts construed by buyers to mean
that they should be the recipients of con-
ceSsions. But statesmen were slow to
grant them, and cows and heifers sold
about steady, stockers and feeders strong,
light beef steers about steady, heavy
steers weak to 10c lower. Top on native
steers today was $3.50, other steers from
to $3.50, bulls up to 500. The high prices
now ruling have a tendency to make
every feeder act his own individual
opinion, without regard to customs effec-
tive in other years, and the prevailing
idea this year seems to be that IT is best
to market stock as soon as 1t is ready.
particularly 1t generally shows good
profit. If nobody is holding back, then
later receipts of fat cattle will not be OPP
pressive. Seventy-two cars arrived in
the quarantine division here today and sold
steady to a shade lower, at $6.75 for COM
mon little steers, to $S.05 for pretty good
ones One shipment OF rough steers from
Colorado sugar mills are here today,
around 1900 pounds, at $500.
The hog supply was 5000 here today,
hardly enough to go round, but an ex-
cessive supply at Chicago gave buyers the
cue to demand lower prices, and the abil-
ity to stand out for them. According!y
sales were 1oc to 15c lower, top $500. bulk
So 35 to 1855. The decline today is re-
garded as a temporary mutation OF the
market, and not indicating the true sup
ply conditions existing in the country.
sheep and lambs had to back UP
little today, after gaining Is to 40 cents
last week on all classes. Top lambs sold
TO-DAY at $40. heavy Kansas lambs $780,
wefhers $3.50 ewes $780, the last three
items Is cents above the product Of the
same feed lot week ago Yearnngs are
worth up to S6o. Receipts looo sooaS'
w. NJ Quail of Topeka, an OLD ufne
stockman, considers this an opportune
time to get in and raise 1ew gooo
cattle at is remarkable how these cattle
nrices i'm so short a time have gone up
To the very top notches, to point no one
ever expected to see them reach" MT.
Ouail said. 1.-THE only way TO reduce
these prices is to raise cattle.
7 a. RICKART, Market Correspondent