Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-17
PRICES SHOW A DECLINE OF 10
CENTS FROM SATURDAYS
AVERAGE.
CATTLE TRADING LACKS
SPIRIT AND VALUES EASE
Speculative and Shipping Purchasers
Show No Easerness to Buy and
Prices Reeede From Saturdays Close
Sheep Quotations Also Show Drop
of From 10 to 20 Cents.

liberal today and prices eased off about
10 cents from Saturdays average.
Estimated average weight of hogs at
Chicago for the week was same as OF
fetal the previous week at 205 pounds,
or eighteen pounds lighter than same
week last year and five pounds lighter
than corresponding week two years
ago.
Altho ss.15 was paid for a fancy
249-pound load of butchers there were
few over SS.O5 and a good class OF
mixed sold around $3.50, while under
weight light often went below 1910.
Pigs were in poorer demand than usual
and showed 25@50 cents decline from
Fridays close, while some were down
IS cents from best level that session.
Quality was up to the recent stand
ard, but conditions favored buyers, and
the decline was reasonable. Shippers
carried only moderate orders and local
packers were in no hurry placing bids
Prices were about steady with the pre-
vious Saturday, altho top was cents
higher Pigs closed 50@75 cents lower
than best time Of week, but ruled
steady to % cents above a week ago.
Cattle.
Speculative and shipping purchasers
of cattle were not eager, the result
being an easing OF values.
This week will develop an influence
adverse to beef in the shape Of poultry
consumption. Cattle bought will reach
the beef market at the time poultry is
getting action owing to Thanksgiving
day. This ought to restrain the mar
keting impulse as buyers will work the
poultry argument to the limit. What
the trade needs is a brief application
of the rest cure.
The ss.40@S.65 grades Of good corn
fed heavy steers look Is cents lower
than a week ago. These have been too
numerous and have been severely pun
ished, but at the prices. buyers seem
to need them and the beef Is going into
consumption, fact that was disclosed
last Monday when one short run
caused marked buying activity. Ca
madam cattle importations are dwin.
ding and little Argentine beef Is reach.
ing the Atlantic seaboard. so that cur
rent receipts do not look burdensome
especially when character of supply
elsewhere is considered.
Sheep.
Sheep eased Off from dime to 20
cents.
AS compaded with high time late
Tuesday fat lambs sold Friday any
where from Is cents to 81 lower. while
the bulk showed 60@75 cent declines
from the general average that day and
considering harder sorting sales were
25 GAO cents lower for the most part
than a week ago. The limit was $3.50
and lot Of good to choice lambs sold
at s7.25@7.4O. Some short-fed Missouri
westerns at $40 sold under q harder
sort than Wednesday when they made
1925 and lot Of medium stuff dropped
down to 81 and lower.
Fat ewes, If at all weighty, had to
have quality to burn to make $4.25 and
a good many good killers sold down to
81, while only something prime in the
handy weight class had the least
chance of passing $4.25. A string OF
Montana ewes in decent killing flesh
sold at 1885 and while showing less de-
cline than native ewes looked 80 cents
lower than high time Of the week. Most
Of the fat eve stuff was so cents lower
than Thursday, some 60@75 cents down
and the bulk sold 25@35 cents lower
than a week ago.
A band of Montana wethers and
yearlings out of a Dakota wheat field,
most Of them good 2-year-old wethers,
cut from a flock that sold on high
spot Tuesday at s5.75, went sorted at
$3.50. The $3.50 kind OF choice fed
wethers here Tuesday could not make
IS on Fridays market and some
fair heavy yearlings that could possibly
have made Sc at high time this week
got best bids Of IS. Choice 100pound
yearIings could hardly have passed $3.50,
and traders regarded 1925 as the limit
on such choice handy yearlings as sold
up to 1914 early in the week.