Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-10
RECEIPTS IN EXCESS OF DEMAND
AND SELLERS MAKE CON.
cEssIoNa
CATTLE OFFERINGS ALSO
IN EXCESSIVE SUPPLY
Prices Forced Lower For All Grades
Too Many Common and Medium
Sheep on Sale and market Is Wsiaht.
cd Down-Rsvisw Of Market condi-
tions-currsnt Quotations.
Chicago. Dec. 1O.-Plentiful receipts

1 SAASASo' Lee 1V.-Hlentlf0l receaptS
carried the hog market lower today.
/. Eleven markets received $4,000 hogs
Tuesday. or $500 less than last Tues
! day, $4,000 less than q year ago and
22.So0 more than two years ago. To-
tai thus far this week 24S,OOO, or 1000
more than same period last week. IL,
600 less than like time last year and
$4,000 more than corresponding two
| days two years ago. Total for 1918 to
1 date 23.216,0 or $4,000 less than same
period 1912 and $4,000 less than cor
! responding time 1911.
Cattle.
Excessive supplies sent cattle down.
Colder weather is chief Stimulus to a
better beef trade, which is permitting
| free selling at stronger prices this
week, but II the trade gets 10000 or
more cattle in midweek, as many took
the three-road car report to indicate.
lower turn can be logically looked
! for then. Coolers are still holding lot
OF beef and there is consumer aversion
to current high costs. Claims are be-
Ing made in many cities east and west
that prices even at wholesale are not
showing relative drop with hoof costs
now as compared with year ago, and
certainly the consumer is being given
a concrete lesson Of high cost of liv-
ing by the retailer. who Is still charg-
ing prices close up with those ne got a
year ago, in spite Of tho discrepancy
in cost then and now. Still. the No.
and No. 3 beef cuts are not much diff
ferent n price trc@ yea- CSC. cec.
q pound being about the only break
for the middle and palmer qualities and
%ot ei~H GO
continuing higher. necessitate them re-
ceiving q stiff price for the stuff over
the block.
Here. then. is the chief bar to bull
ish trade in cattle Too, the imports Of
our eastern markets BY Canadian stun
mand from the killerA even tho colder
reasonable temperatures are having
some little effect in bolstering up con-
sumers' appetttes
Short-feds are bound TO predominant
in the general supplies for the next few
months. altho IL is logical to look Tor
the arrival Of a few lonE-fed big steers
in the next two weeks, these to come
from feeders who held on resoluteay
thru the low-selnng period In recent
weeks. in belief that demand would
"oome back" for the big choice grades.
altho renewal OF keen call for heavy
steers u not looked for. since the con-
sumer 10 DESTROYS Of getting light cuts
which have the least waste and high
costing beef that 10 wasteful can only
induce small buying. High cost 'of
corn and short crop OF II in many sec
tions naturally will have effect In
crowdin8 out 4 lot Of light ana handy
stuff OF ehort feed as the season pro-
crosses. and particularly on the price
bulgeA
Sheep.
Common and medium sheep and
lambs acted az q weight on prices.
Tuesdays receipts carried thirty
Ave double decks from the range coun-
try. among them ten loads Of aged
Montana ewes that showed a decent
killing top end. similar to s4.25 goods
on Monday. -Four loads of Montana
wethers went to feeders at $3.50 and
figured a little higher chan yesterday
when killers took top out of them
at IS and the balance sold to feeders
at S4s5 The sale put new high
top on the seasons feeder wether
market. Four loads of New Mexico
wethers were Of plain feeder class. A
ten-car string Of Dakota wheat field
mixed stock carried a good killing top
end. Feeder classes sold on a gen.
orally steady to strong basis.