Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-03
CHECKING Of BEAR RAID ON HOGS IS
FEATURE Of WEEK IN STOCK MARKET

next four months will find as many cat
| tie assembled at the market as can be
taken care Of, especially at current cost.
! While owing to a short corn crop, some
| of the corn-belt states may not be car
rying a normal number Of cattle for
winter finishing purposes, other parts
| of the country are in the beef making
business The east filled up with Ca
! madam stockers last fall and these are
to be heard from right along: in fact,
| Pennsylvania and Ohio are beginning
to cut them loose. They go east, but
ments. The Pacific coast will probably
absorb the bulk of ti,e hay-fed output
Of the inter-mountain country, but
! Texas will shy it's castor into the ring
| this year and when cattle get fat down
below the quarantine line 1t is nee
essary to reckon with them. 1t is es
, timated that between meal. cake and
| graS fed cattle Texas will have in eX-
| cess Of aNquarter of million to I'M
| load between March / and July I and
unless they are marketed with some
semblance Of equal distribution they are
| likely to upset trade equilibrium.
! Muddy feed lots are driving in lot
| of light fleshcd cattle prematurely and
curtailing at this juncture to d certain
| l.
| that moving day on the farms is also
approaching further tends to keep sup
ply up to good volume and to mitigate
| against a wide open trade on country
account, which along with the high
! prices current for thin young cattle and
! the break in fat cattle values are prov
! ing handicaps in the selling process.
! Despite the decline enforced during
i the week on practically all grades Of
! beef steers, the butcher cattle trade
, has shown but slight fluctuations.
Demand has centered most strongly on
the strictly good to choice kinds and
| the low priced stuff. and few traders
can detect any quotable change in the
! market from week ago on heifers
! good enough to sell above $3.50, or
choice fat COWS capable of making $6.Io
and up. Some strength was injected
| into the trade early in the week on the
| lower priced killers through good COM
| petition for breezy young stuff in light
| flesh suitable for the country outlet
/ and most Of the cows selling downward
! from $3.50 are making fully as good
| prices as a week ago. There has been
some depression in the market for in
between classes, some of which have
sold 10@15c lower, though in general
| way 10c covers the decline on most any
! Of such grades
Moderate receipts of she stuff during
the week still evidence d desire on the
I part of farmers to conserve desirable
breeding stock and the leading bear
| influence in the trade has been the I'M
seasonable weather conditions. Most
Of the COW stuff received has consisted
of plain to right good killers showing
| little evidence of much corn feeding.
! Bull trade has lost all it's early
weeks strength with little more add
| ed, most classes closing about 100 15c
| lower than a week ago. At the close
S6.10@6.35 is taking most of the fair
| to good bolognaS, with only choice
| heavy class up to S6.40 or point high
| er and an occasional big weight bolOg-
ma, such as made $3.50 early in the
| week. now being quotable at $3.50.
i Under the &c line only a common light
class of bulls is traded in, and bulk of
! the butcher bulls of fair to choice class
sells from $6.60@7.25. one very prime
| 1900-lb bull having reached $3.50 dur
| ing the week.
Stock and feeding cattle trade re-
| Elected in slow. weak trade and sales
are mostly l0c below best levels of the
| Tuesday session and largely 15m25c
under best time last week on steer
classes Stock COWS and heifers also
sold to slower demand on a weaker
! basis today, but having sold to better
! advantage early in the week retain a
slight proportion Of their early week
| strength Fresh supply was light. but
yard dealers had about ECO cattle on
| hand at the opening of the days ses-
sion and at Il late hour it appeared
! that around 1000 would go over, max
| ing a prospect of a rather poor clear
| anCe being made by Week-end Local
! order buyers were executing some Or
| ders at the reduced prices noted, but
! few countrymen were in attendance.
| Sales of Ghe week have included a
, load of very choice selected ShOrthorn
feeders up to $50 but IS is considered
/ the extreme limit Of the closing mar
ket and few cattle have gone out this
week above s7.75, a price which bought
breedy class Of feeders and choice
steer yearlings here today. Most Of
the weeks business in good to right
! choice stock and feeding steers has
been between $3.50 .65. while some
! off qualified fair weight feeders have
sold down to $6.75GI7 and a very plain
and medium class of light stockers
| from $6.50Gu7, trashy tailings from Sc
! down. A very ordinary to fair class OF
| stock COWS is going at $5n 5.25, and
q common sort Of light stock heifers at
s5.5OM5.75, but most of the week S
trading in good to choice stock and
| feeding COWS has been between $3.50
! as, and $6.25M6. 75 is taking right good
! to choice stock heifers, only a few Sc
! lected punches selling higher.
Receipts of cattle this week. unOffiC-