Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-19

! delayed trains had a tendency to make
! hog buyers hold off this morning
Prices were lower in the early sales.
A total of 9o,csp hogs at the six lead.
ing western markets Wednesday stood
/ $1,000 larger than a year ago. Chicago
| and ST. Louis yards, however. were
! closed week ago. Kansas City, ST
Joseph. and Sioux City showed most
increase compared with year ago
while Omaha decreased 1900 and Chi
i cago a few hundred.
The first half of this week the eleven
markets. with Buffalo. Pittsburgh. and
! Cleveland closed, received $4,000, OF
$4,000 more than week ago and ~
900 less than corresponding three days
! a year ago. Chicago alone received
/ 1850 the past three days. being $4,000
! less than corresponding period year
ago. The yards we're closed here all
| of last week.
| Cattle.
! There was no WITNESS in the call
i Ger cattle.
markets in which values trnlbled ter
I, rifically, but this one he characterized
! as showing the greatest depreciation
J
witnessed in long years Of experience
in the saddle as a buyer.
| I'VE can't ship EN- to New York,
he said, and the newspaper agitation
that has alarmed the public and made
/ beef unpopular as result OF the dis
ease outb break Is responsible for this
situation
That demand being off now, as result
of he onto
which is not likely to be raised for
some little time, according TO federal
: inspectors-it Is a case Of looking to
! the packers for an outlet, and the big
local houses say they can use just a
few Of that class of cattle. The result
| is that the excess over demands simply
goes begging for bids.
| The market on them, II one can
| stretch point and really make con-
sistent statement to the effect that
| there is market at all. is easily 81
lower than a few weeks ago, and the
few bids that were obtainable for the
heavies Wednesday were at least 400
30 cents lower than the basis al which
such kinds sold here Nov. 6 last, when
the market was closed by the state
quarantine order.
Sellers admonition to owners Is to
keep the stuff at home until the trade
outlet broadens. Thanksgiving poultry
season looms just ahead and even tho
cold weather would ordinary be looked
upon as factor to revive beef de-
mand. 1t is not doing so now.
| Hardly dozen loads of good heavy
steers were sold prior 10 o'clock
| They won't turn a Wheel was the
sellers reply to queries as to the condi-
| ton of the market, and as the session
( dragged along to the close IT was ap-
parent that where stuff could be sold
at all il would simply have to go a,
buyers terms.
Sheep.
Offerings Of sheep and lambs seemal
rene to plentiful.
Good fat lambs got much better &C.
ton than matured muttons, some earl,
sold lambs to packers being steady t.
strong, and a few of the primest lot.
as much as 10 cents higher to the cit,
butchers. but packers protested tina
the whole list is on levels much too
high as measured by what they dubbed
as "deplorable markets for the dressed
product" They asserted that nutto,
could not be sold on the New Yorl
market, and with Thanksgiving jus
ahead the outlook for an improved
dressed mutton trade soon was any
thing but reassuring. Few mature,
muttons are ever needed a, this season
of the year, and with poultry cheape
than year ago, mutton considera bl.
higher. pretty good runs of aged sheer
in the west this week, and more or les
prejudice existing against the meat o
cloven footed animals, because o
newspap per agitation Of disease. TIL,
argument of bad mutton market i
not without logic.