Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-28

around $3.50 per head on many cutie.
The run has brought lot of steers
in from far-away territory where sum-
mer grazing Is the exception and that
there are more to follow is an open
secret. In northern Nebraska and the
corn section OF South Dakota the In
variable practice is to empty feed lots
at this season and while the break
this week may have the effect Of check
ing the loading impulse, the next few
weeks will fetch In considerable cat
tie from that quarter. Texas Is also
loading more freely. Fort Worth hay.
ing received a seasonable jag Of grass
ers from South Texas this week, with
more In sight for next week. st. Louis
Is getting a few more Texans. although
receipts of quarantine stuff at that
market this week are 60 per cent less
than Il year ago. Kansas City Is also
running light on quarantine stuff. this
weeks run being little more than half
foreign beef that has been laying in
the crop that came n year ago.
Eastern beef distributing channels
are less congested than recently Ac-
tivity in naval circles has enabled own
ers of frozen stuff to work off a lot Of
cold storage. One big package OF this
goods was sold to the government at
New York yesterday at 1895 per cwt.
1t was Argentina frozen beef that Is
now difficult to vend. BY cleaning out
cold storage space at New York the
eastern situation will be relieved, but
the domestic cattle grower is not in
position to profit by the Mexican dis
turbance as foreign frozen beef Is
deemed by naval authorities good diet
for 'iackies."
Relief of recent congestion at New
York is indicated by cessation Of ship
ments of Argentine chilled beef to
western territory. About five carloads
weekly has been sent recently mainly
to Chicago, Cleveland and ST. Louis,
but this traffic will probably cease. es-
peciclly If naval needs continue. 1t is
likely, however, that frozen beef will
be used exclusively for provisioning
, war ships and that commodity Is not
adapted for shop purposes except In q
limited way
Receipts Liberal.
Total supplies this week at Chicago
unofficially reported. was 4s,251 head
ed and compared with 4S.422 for the
corresponding period year ago.
Up to Wednesday the hog market
did nothing but slump. Packers have
positively refused at times to get in
the market unless at their own prices
Wednesdays market was fully 5000
lower than the close last week but
since then a little more activity was
noted and closing prices are just a
Saturday. The top for the week stands
at $s.77h compared with $685. last week
and 1925 for the corresponding time 9
year ago.
Arrivals for the week total, unoffic-
tally $4,000 head against 100000 esti-
mated to come and compared with
1861 for the same period a year ago
During the last 80 days Alberta has
sent approximately $4,000 hogs to the
Seattle, Wash. market, according to
| advices frol Calgary. In addition to a
considerable number OF cattle. This has
curtailed Coast" hog purchasing OPP
erations in Missouri river territory and
given Puget Sound killers access to q
new supply source. Western Canadian
| growers are enthusiastic over the pork
| production prospect and propose to in
crease their output.
Prices for lambs and sheep have
| gradually weakened from day to day
until the closing prices stand at abou
! the lowest level Of the week. It ha.
been an uneven trade all week. East
ern orders have not been up to snuff
and packers have secured most offer
ings at their own price. The top OF
lambs for the week went back to $8.6l
| for a few lots Of primers while $500
was the best for sheep.
| Receipts for the week were consider.
ably in excess of expectations, the ar.
| rivals totalling $4,000 for the weeI
against $4,000 expected. Compared witt
a year ago lambs are thirty cents un-
| der the top Tor the corresponding per
| iOd and sheep zoe under the extreme
level for that week.
! Closing prices are on very irregu.
Flar basis compared with week ago
| Sheep and wooded lambs of KILLING
class all show declines, but some full
steady spots were found in the shorr
lamb trade today as compared with
last Friday.
! Heavy sheep have come in for the
most humping and wooded stuff has
suffered more than high qualified shorr
stock. both heavy wooded ewes anG
wooded wethers with weight closing 2.
| @40c lower than week ago, while
most everything in the shorn sheer
line is 15@25c down. The decline IL
matured muttons Is traceable to heavy
|