Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-26
BULK OF SALES MADE AT $50
AND $500, 10 CENTS UNDER
MONDAYS AVERAGE.
BUT LITTLE DEMAND
FROM ANY QUARTER
Cattle Trade Slow Because Of Warm
Weather-Sheep and Lambs Show
Tendency to Ray-Review Of Mar
ket Conditions-Current Quotations
at Livestock Centers.

Chicago. May 26.-Hog prices sur
fered further decline today. There
was but little demand from any quarter.
age was the lowest since lar. IA. Re-
ceipts were first estimated at $4,000
and later cut to 5000. The run was
$4,000 to 10000 more than expected
and stood the largest since Dec. 10,
when arrivals totaled 55.340. All points
had fairly liberal offerings and pack
ers had little trouble in taking Oft
prices. Late market Monday, while
quite active, was the weakest point OF
the sess ion. 1t was then that most
sales locked 20 cents off.
While there We're not many dead
hogs in proportion to the receipts
Monday. country shippers. should be
ca utious when loading hogs and give
them plenty of room, as the early
warm weather is hard on the hogs
Receipts Monday stood $4,000 more
than a week ago. $4,000 more than
Year ago and only 500 more than two
Years ago. Traders believed farm work
having a lull in the last few days
caused shippers to send hogs market
ward, which was responsible for the
heavy liquidation.
Eleven markets received 129,400
hogs, or $1,000 more than last Monday
$4,000 more than a year ago and H.
400 more than two years ago. Chi
cago. St. Louis, Buffalo and Pittsburgh
were most literally supplied and most
of the increase was credited to those
markets. Total for 1914 70 date 9,544,-
600 or $4,000 less than same period
1918 and 1886, 900 less than CORE
spending time 1912.
Cattle.
Cattle were slow owing to hot
weather
Another light run came at the west
ern points Monday and there were only
400 at Fort Worth. Thus the Texas
crop, both there and at st. Louis. was
not much of a factor. Chicago run
stood against $1,000 a week ago and
23,016 year ago and it was evident
that although feeders having finished
corn and feeling anything but bullish
on hog market prospects. were DESTROYS
of unloading freely. this situation does
not apply with regards to their cattle
holdings.
Total at six markets was 37,100,
again. against $500 week ago and
400 a year ago, While the eastern
points had moderate supplies. Pitts
burgh reporting 1906 and Buffalo
1000
New York will get 1900 quarters OF
Argentina beef this week, bulk being
due to land tomorrow, but a favorable
situation developing of late is some
big war department. demands for sup
plies. It was reported in the trade
that war department officers We're to
open bids for approximately 1000 tons
of bees on Monday, and a doubtless
part of the Argentina product will find
an outlet thru this source.
Sheep.
Sheep and lambs tended to rally.
Packers announced a desire to make
it an So and a SO market for best shorn
and wooded lambs, respectively, but
were unable to make the rifle, though
succeeding in stopping lot Of very
good shorn lambs in the IS notch. The
run carried lot of fed western stuff
that looked like cleanup shipments OF
the past seasons feeding and sales OF
plain light to good clippers between
1926 and sTS5 were numerous. while
81 was a good price on the market for
extreme big weights, and big buckF- ma
tives sold down to 1925 q $50. few
prime So pound shorn natives sold tc
city butcher at sS25. but packers
bought A strictly choice handy class
$50 and the Blanchard prime Wiscon-
. sin fed lambs topped on carload lots al
1875 to shippers.