Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-16
Porkers Recover.

Porkers Recover.
After slump early In the week the
hog market has had little squirt OF
reaction and the closing levels are 10
@2Oc above the low point Wednesday
Canadian hogs have made their ap-
pearance this week, bringing $500
SIS and weight average about 1SS@2o3
pounds
Current light hog receipts are meager
enough to give plausibility to claims
Of scarcity, owing to cholera made by
state authorities at the Ames expert
ment station.
Figures gathered from eighty-six
counties In the state up to May 26
show loss Of 2,205,2sS head, with
valuation Of over $22,00o,0o0. In other
words, every fourth hog raised in Iowa
during the past year has succumbed
to disease.
The heaviest loss reported SO far Is
in Plymouth county. where 10000, or
more than 500 OF the procine popula-
ton. have died. Lyon county shows
loss of 10000 head. or somewhat more
than eo9s.
It is significant that disease ravages
during this epidemic have been most
severe in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and
Iowa.
| Accepting the statistics Of the Ames
institution, the summer and fall hog
supply is expected to show decrease
Of 20 per cent. compared with last year.
| Buyers continue to discriminate
against poor to fair big packers" and
reject them from loads. The dis
elimination against grassy mixed Is
also quite severe and the price range
is getting still wider
Receipts OF hogs at Chicago for the
week were about $4,000 head more than
the estimate at 141.83s compared with
148,170 for the corresponding period
last year. This weeks top at $S.27h
Is 82kc above last year for the same
| week.
Despite a 15@25c decline on the gen
eral run of lambs and Csc on the bulk
Of the eve stuff from last weeks
closing the market this week has per-
formed creditably considering supply
! figures and high temperatures and is
considered ripe for fresh declines in
case supplies continue to come in such
volume as this week. The run at
! Louisville this week will probabl
prove to be the heaviest Of the season,
but prices are still high enough to
keep stuff rolling marketward from
all sections where anything ready to
come Is available. and so high that
the mutton producing farmers who
took fright last year at the bugaboo Of
| free wool and mutton are nursing red
| eyed regret that they sacrificed their
flocks through their lack Of courage
AS one Of the good experts In mutton
trade says, prices Of wool range 2@4c
per pound higher than at this time
last year, and most Of the lambs for
| Slaughter have been selling recently
s1.5O "a 81 per cwt. higher than at this
4 time last year, and good share Of
the aged mutton sheep have gone 81
! per cwt. higher, so the future looks
| promising as the recent past has been
| for the men who had courage to stick
to a business that had been producing
them fine profits as we'll as in
estimable benefit to the soil Of their
farms during recent years
Shorn grades were 1b@25c lower
than the high point this week and
pared with a week ago. Springers
were in greater reaction and closing
sales were mainly soc lower than tn
| high time and generally Csc off from
| last weeks close. Many had antici-
pated big run for early next week.
but buyers may be surprised II only a
small run materialized. Conservative
marketing is the best plan and the
present break in prices. especially Of
| springers, may check the movement to
a great extent.
Ewes were generally 15@25c lower
than high time this week and ruled
barely steady with the previous Fri
day. Yearlings and wethers were lit
tie changed at any time.
Sheep receipts for the week at Chi
cago aggregate 69,104 head with to-
days receipts estimated against co.
127 year ago and $4,000 expected to
| arrive. The top for sheep at $3.50 this
! week is 40c higher than a year ago
and native lambs (not springse) at
$3.50 Is fifty cents above year ago
Spring lambs at Chicago topped the
week at SO.