Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-21
SPECTATORS O|)1
Of HOG MARKET
SHIPPERS ALSO APPEAR TO TIRE
OF HANDLING PRESENT LIB
ERAL SUPPLIES.
LIBERAL SUPPLIES OF
CATTLE TO DRAW UPON
Prices Not Materially Changed =
Conditions Against Improvement in
Sheep and Lambs-Review Of Mar
ket Conditions in Livestock centsrs
Prevailing Prices.

| Chicago April ol-Shippers and
spectators were weary Of hogs to an
unusual extent today.
Ninety one thousand hogs arrived at
the eleven markets Monday, being
5000 less than week ago and 10000
less than corresponding Monday year
ago. Chicago alone received over a
third of the grand total, or $4,000, be-
ing few hundred more than week
ago AMI S,40O less than a year ago.
Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Cleveland
! had a combined total of %, 900, or 1000
less than a week ago and 1000 less
than year ago. Indianapolis had
only LOCO.
Cattle.
Cattle buyers had a liberal supply
TO draw from. Prices were not mater
tally changed.
New York received a comparatively
small crop of Argentine beef last week,
total being 1854 quarters. against S.
$50 quarters the week before. OF this
amount 1926 quarters came direct
from South America and was chilled
beef: 500 chilled quarters came VIA
Liverpool and 3,41s quarters and crops
of frozen beef came direct from Aus
tralia.
All over the area where drouth par
italy or wholly ruined the 1918 corn
crop fat cattle are as scarce as they-
were abundant year ago. This APP
plies especially 70 Kansas and Mis-
souri,. Parts of Illinois and Iowa may
be included, while the Nebraska visible
supply is decidedly deficient. Usually
at this season and for 100 days to
the beef that reaches Chicago. conse-
ouently that part OF Iowa which was
favored by nature last year is the
main source Of visible supply. Many
of the cattle that reached Chicago last
week came from the Hawkeye state,
| and the territory traversed by the
Northwestern and Milwaukee roads
! appear to have a normal supply.
Nebraska and eastern South Dakota
are far short Of their usual compile
ment, and 10 relief is to be expected
| from that quarter. Present scarcity
| Of stock cattle renders the task of fill-
| ing pastures difficult. if not impos-
sble. West OF the Missouri river in
| the grazing regions shortage talk en-
/ counters neither contradiction nor
| skepticism, altho the whole country Is
! imhued with a determination to get
back into cattle at the earliest oppor-
! tunity.
Sheep.
| Conditions We're against improve
ment for sheep and lambs.
| Despite the relative lowness OF east
ern markets, there was fair shipping
demand for lambs. This call and a
little city butcher demand made lit
! tie early trading possible. There were
also a few country buyers here
scratching around for something tc
take out TO finish and that call was
really one of the leading features of the
market. 1t may be here stated also
that feeder buyers displayed no lack OF
nerve. They picked up two doubles OF
sixty-two to sixty three pound Mon
tana lambs in light flesh and of fairly
good shearing capacity at s1.3o anc
finding little else in the wooded lamr
line suiting their needs, turned to shorr
lambs An Indianan took out close
to 1900 head Of well fleshed shorr
western lambs for a short feed that av-
craged from seventy 70 seventy eight
pounds at a cost of $3.50 and some OF
seventy-four pounds average went to e
Michigan buyer at $3.50.