Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-30
HOGS FAIL 70 HOLD
GAINS At OPENING
PRICES ADVANCE AND THEN RE.
cEDE As TOTAL ARRIVALS
GROW.
OFFERINGS OF CATTLE
COMPARATIVELY NUMEROUS
Sales During Past Week Made in Mar
Rowing Range, Midway Between Top
and Low levels-Sheep and Lambs
Scarce As Trade Opens For Week.
Review Of Conditions.

IN hogS today dlSd ppeafeu later, WheH
receipts exceeded expectations.
Receipts of hogs at Chicago stock
yards for the week We're $4,000, or
13.400 less than the previous week.
1000 mere than the same week last
year and $4,000 less than the CORE
spending week two years ago.
Estimated average weight of hogs at
Chicago for the week was go pounds.
the same as the preceding week, six
pounds lighter than the same week last
year and seventeen pounds heavier
than the corresponding week two
years ago.
Top hogs at Chicago for the week
sS.S71. or cents lower than the pre-
yious week, 571a cents lower than
year ago and 921s cents higher than
two years ago. Average price figured
$50, against sS.75 a week ago, 1920 a
year ago and s7.71 corresponding week
two years ago.
Eleven markets received only $4,000
hogs Saturday, making $4,000 for the
week, or $4,000 less than the preceding
week, $4,000 more than the same week
last year and 1900 less than the cor
responding week two years ago. Total
for 1914 TO date 6,23S.o0, or $4,000 less
than the same period 1918 and 1.217,Oo0
less than the corresponding time 1917.
Cattle.
Offerings of cattle We're compare
lively numerous.
Guessing the future is anybody's
task and it is a guessing match at the
best. Recently when the market has
shown a hardening tendency it has in
iah 11- tho a6pa Of S111Tn
and such unequal distribution as the
trade has been afflicted with lately has
not facilitated market stability. That
part of Lent in which beef consump-
ton is lowest is at hand and the in
dustrial situation is being INSTRUCTED
by strikes at a moment when the
clouds were dispensing. In Chicago a
brickyard tieup has paralyzed con-
struction work and every idle worker
contracts beef consumption. Demand
shows tendency to center on good
handy weights and prime yearlings.
Half fat yearlings continue to be bad
selling proposition and will be, hence
they should be held back for decent
finish. The few prime. high dressing
long fed bullocks showing UP are find-
ing market of their own, but plain
weight steers do not command respect,
a load of the mammoth variety selling
this week at 1925.
The top for last week was 1910, paid
on Monday for 1901 and 1,545 pound
s935G9.40 was paid for prime year
lings. On Wednesday $3.50 took the
best steers, averaging 1852 pounds,
IL; fny
sales have been recorded and the great
bulk of beef steers has gone over the
scales at range of sSG9.25. The $3.50
GS.5O delegation has been large. Al
the close prime 1900 900 pound
good backbone 1.300G1,450 pound bull
locks at ss.90G9.30. medium to good
1,250@135O pound cattle at $685. @S.70
and plain to fair short fed steers at
s7.75@s.25. Choice yearlings are worth
at ss.50G $50. altho above 1915 they
must be fat.
Sheep.
| Sheep and lambs we're scarce.
| The booming market the past weeN
! has come as a big, agreeable surprise
J TO the selling side Expectancy week
/: go was lOr some little improvement
/ but had anybody forecasted a full 3;
! a 20 cent advance on wooled sheep and
lambs this week and bulge Of any.
where from 50I15 cents in shorn stocl
mostly 60165 cents advances which
have scored over week ago on IA
classes. ne would have been considered
a fit subject for lunacy com mission
! inquiry. Improved trade conditions
light runs east, good shipping demand
and Droadened call to satisfy comini
Easter trade requirements have beer
STRENGTHENING factors that for the tim
i,-;i.E. az least, have lifted the marke
, out of killers grasp. The high levels
the market is now hitting sgives it ;
topheavy appearance, but good Easte
call next week.
i A run of Texas grass sheep is loom
! ing UP on the market horizon For
Worth is getting some and a few load
reached Kansas City Thursday. The.
are expected to come good and rathe
numerously from now on. but the sup
! DIV of matured muttons in corn bel
; and western territory is very low &C
cordins to all information availabl
! and no grave fears are entertaine
for the immediate future of this brancl
If the market