Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-15
S[0NNSS MARKS
TRADING IN HOGS
HEAVY MONDAY RECEIPTS CAUSE
PRICES TO REcEDE SLIGHT
PRICES GENERALLY 5 CENTS
UNDER SATURDAYS AVERAGE
Cattle Receipts Also Larger Than EH.
pected and Prices Arc Marked Down
10 and is cents-shsep Market Wax
- Review Of Market Conditions -
Current Quotations.

SulCaSO, beC. 4o.-ISeCSipts VI AoeS
were heavy today. even for Monday.
and as a result prices were generally o
cents under Saturdays average.
/ More hogs arrived at eleven markets
last week than for n week in more
thar a year. The total at $4,000 was
$1,000 larger than previous week. $4,000
, more than a year ago and 171.00O more
than corresponding week Of 1910. The
total for 1913 to date at 23,717.O00
stands 10000 smaller than a year ago.
s 5000 smaller than two years ago and
SAFE, 900 larger than corresponding
period of 1910, when receipts were I'M
usually small.
All thru the week the price range
had been getting narrower, the spread
Saturday being more contracted than
for any day in many months past.
Comparatively few sales were made
Saturday below $40 and only a dozen
loads above $7.S5. Three loads sold as
high as s7.s2k.
Last weeks estimated average weight
of hogs was 215 pounds, the heaviest
week since Sept. 20, when the e
Gus week 213 pounds, a year ago 232
PoAAiA oAA wv SSoAS doO = poA4AAo
Cattle.
With 5000 cattle expected, arrivals
today were in h netghborhood Of 49,
the price concessions demanded, which
were 1 @15 cents under Saturday.
There will be few morv big steers
this winter, according to corn belt re-
ports, and this Will suit the trade NICE
Nv nl~@- HDkA h~-I
have all the best Of the call from kill
ers.
Late in the week Just q medium
SS.10@s.25. n stun down to 1850
at low point decent 100 to 1175 pound
warmed-up steers had to take $1,000
$50. W1nd-up Of the range season a
opened a wide packer demand for these
kinds. failing killers ranged down to
$500 and lower, but where such stuff
had some claim to breeding It met
feeder demand really better than killer
call.
Short-fed and ~warmed-up stuff Is
bound to predominate in the supplies
during the next few months. High cost
Of corn will prove a factor in forcing
early shipping Of a lot Of short-feda
Many, IN fact. which were switched
from the dried-out trans Missouri pass
lures in September have already been
cased here and in the river markets. h
tho major portion OF them will likely
come between now and Feb. i and
their arrival promises to mean beef
apleaty OF quality such as It may prove.
Sheep.
Sheep receipts were around $4,000
head and the market was weak with
other livestock offerings.
Feeding sheep and yearlings were in
strong request all week II frequently
showed 10 to Is cents advances. max
ing the best prices Of the season. $3.50
to $4.a6 having been paid for choice
feeding wethers and some yearling
feeders landing up to $3.50 to $685..
Feeding lambs are closing a little low
er han q week ago, a fleshter and
better class going out at $685. to 81
last week than made $3.50 to $3.50 the
previous week, and some warmed-up
lambs at 1856 to 81 being such as kill
ers bought on the high spot last Mon
day up around 1925.
Chicago had considerably more than
half the combined supply at six west
ern markets last week. supply here
reaching nearly 153.5oo, against $685.
900 at six markets whose aggregate
marketings compare with 252, 900 the
previous week n $4,000 a year ago.
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