Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-09
GALL FOR LIVE HOGS NOT BRISK
OWING TO LEssENiNG CON.
SUMPTION,
RECEIPTS TOO HEAVY
AND PRICES DECLINE
Cholera Ravases in Iowa and Other
States to Cut Short Fall Crop-Cattie
Offerings Lacking in ouaIity-smalI-
ness Of Sheep and Lamb Arrivals
Give Sellers Chance to Boost Prices.


were in excess Of demand which had
| been reduced by hot weather.
! Twenty six thousand more hogs
were received at eleven markets Mon
more than corresponding Monday a
year ago. Chicago had 10000 more
| than a week ago and 100 less than a
year ago, while the five leading outside
markets received 1000 more than a
week ago and 5000 more than a year
ago.
Considering the extreme hot weather
OF Sunday and today there were COM
parativeiy few dead hogs. It is up to
; the country shippers not to overload
hogs these hot days.
Current light hog receipts are meager
enough to give plausibility to claims of
scarcity, owing to cholera made by
Hawkeye state authorities at the
AmeS experiment station.
Figures gathered from eightys six
counties in the state up to May 26 show
a loss of 2,205,2ss head, with a val
uaton of over s22.O0O,OoO. 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 so per cent of
the porcine population have died. Lyon
county shows loss of 10000 head, or
somewhat more than 60 per cent.
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 a decrease
of 20 per cent, compared with last
year.
Cattle offerings were not Of prime
quality.
Hot weather acts as a repressive in
fluence on beef consumption and the
summer hotel season, which usually
injects life into dressed meat trade is
yet several weeks away.
All buyers worked cattle In the
pens to their utmost in an endeavor to
shrink the fill out Of them, and this
practice prevailed thruout the session,
| a big share of the crop finally cashing
! minus much of the heavy fills accumu
lated on arrival at the pens. Sellers
followed the usual course of watering
stock late, however. since they realized
| there would be practically no demand
| from big buyers until the day was well
| over and by watering late they had
some advantage in getting at least part
Of the fill over the scales to Offset in
some measure declines in hoof costs
which buyers were determined to put in
force.
Beef trade situation all around the
circuit was reported in mean shape
and this had a direct bearing on the
bearish conditions prevailing locally
Argentina beef is running much more
| freely into the east than had been ex-
pected in the hot weather season. New
York getting 1925 quarters last week
! and being due to receive $4,000 quar-
tiers two weeks hence. Much of this
beef Is being shipped inland, nearly
every town east Of Chicago getting
little of It, and the Argentina stuff. to-
gether with the generous movement of
eastern fed steers is having its ex-
pected effect in depressing the gen.
| eral call for dom nstic bullocks.
Sheep.
In sheep and lambs the sc1allness of
supply gave sellers a chance to hois,
the market
| Lambs found a good outlet almost
/ from the start. Most shorn offerings
ruled steady to strong compared with
| the close Of last week and occasional
transactions looked little higher-in
fact, some sellers claimed rare sales
! We're a dime up from last Friday.
! Springers were more abundant than
any previous day thus far this season,
| but buverS wanted them from start to
finish and lost no time placing bids.
Most spring lambs landed 10015 cents
higher, altho some Of the plain to med
ium lots We're little better than strong
with last week.