Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-17

Chicago, Dec 17.-Active demand
from shippers and spectators today
brough, about an advance today in
hogs
Eleven markets received 1a7.aoo hogs
Wednesday, or 10000 more than iaSl
Wednesday, 2S.300 less than year ago
and 17.4OO more than two years ago.
Total the first half OF this week 346,ooo'
or IS 900 more than same period iast
week. 10000 less than like time last
year and $4,000 more than correspond
ing three days two years ago. I"lai
for 1914 to date % 12a.G coo. or 1,S3S.ooo
less than same period 1913 and l,56o.-
600 less than corresponding time l9lZ.
Cattle.
Inquiry for cattle seemed almost at
a standstill
Trade conditions simply begsared
description, and the one remedy for
the present situation is shut on Oh
supplies. To dump cattle into the mar
ket at this time is to show a feeling
of lost confidence, reason for winch
cen not be figured out by the trade.
Iowa being released, with the eXcep-
ton of one county, and Indiana and
other states also permitted to move
stock freely. nest of it into the free
area Of the yards. is not good and
sufficient reason why the demand
should be burdened with thousands
more cattle than the trade capacity.
Practically every pen in the cattle
yards was filled TODAY and there were
dozens of them held cattle which
were in killers hands A worse state
of trade congestion has rot been shown
in years. The remedy for this situa-
ton is clear: Shu. off the crop. Thir-
ty six-hour slaughter regulation has
been suspended by the federal inspec-
tors owing 10 the present market con-
ditions eglite
Many coun.rT shippers declared they
had cattle started this wav before the
report O: Mondays bad market reached
them. bur nj, declare? they'd wait a
few weeks before shipping again. Mar
ket once navinh disposed OF the heavy
accumulat ton nov on hand. much of
which may not even be oashed before
next week is going to nee1 very mea-
ger supplies, Al conditions are
averse to good selling and significant
among them Is the pressure on beef
trade caused by poultry competition.
Peef other thar fancy stock. IS going
to get poor demand from row on ur'n
after the holidavs. BUYERS asser' and
NAM OF tn local l.'lHc-s declared to-
cay that after this '"ae.-'s trrmerd"~<s
dose OF supplies less Tran 40 600 cattle
probably will he actua1iv ree1ef from
nov until afte- the new ,err opens up.
The run Wedresda- figured at j
900 made 81 gao for three DAYS tots
week. largest supply for like perion
In recent years. and every. ono OF 'enn
has to be slaughtered. said q buyer,
IF there was feeder outlet for a
third of the cror which would he the
case in ordinary times. things would
be different. AS 1t is now we'rn asked
to take a beef supply all out Of pro-
portion to the demand requirements
Sheep.
There was no urgent demand for
sheap and lambs.
While receipts showed an eyoand-
ing tendency. locally, the trade has
been treated to genuine surprise by
the smallness of the cuppiy during
the last two weeks. Factors entering
into the short runs are attributed to
scarcity of ovine stock in corn belt ter
ritory. the strong efforts that have
been made to induce shippers to nurse
the market over period that IL was
thought would he productive OF two or
three weeks of free liquidation, and to