Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-14

packing between now and November
II of at least 100000 hogs. Dealers
! cuts Of dry sailed meats at smaller
! packing points. and there is less pro.
| duct in sight than last year There is
| no relief to be had from beef or NUT
| ton and there will be no abundance OF
| hogs until after January /. September
pork is selling SIS per barrel too low.
1--WE have had a good advance on
| the non-speculative articles. Hams
have gone up about &c per Id since the
last time / was here. Extra shorts and
other cuts have advanced about 1c per
ID, and there has been moderate adj
vance in July pork and ribs, but we
are long way from taw yet Lard is
particularly cheap when we analyze
the situation-w have a few tierces
more than year ago, but we are short
$4,000 Of two years ago. with pros
| pect of light manufacture from now
until December /. What is known as
the lard season begins Augl1t !. From
that on to December ! stocks decreas sc
and hedges are taken off. We will have
the closest cleanup IN all hog products
this fall shat the trade has ever ex-
perienced."
The top this week at $3.50 is 15c un-
der a year ago, but if the same move-
ment Of porkers next week occurs in
comparison to the demand nothing
will stop the SO on this movement.
| Mutton Producers Confident.
Cattle and hog scarcity is acute and
sheep traders are confident of a good
summer market. The commercial and
industrial depression must, Of course
| be rcckoneI with, but both sheep and
lambs have sold remarkably well al
! winter. and there is no reason to as
sumo that demand for product will MOI
continue. Mutton and lamb botN have
the advantage Of going to the con-
sunler in small packages and that ma
! terially aids distribution. In speculat
ing on the future of the market cog
nizance must be taken Of the high
, prices both pelts and Stats are realiz-
! ing while every item Of by-product is
ready sale ut unprecedented prices
Sheep marketing during the past
, three months has been at the lowest
ebb in trade history and aged wethers
, have been selling unusually close tC
lambs. So scarce have Wethers beer
| that ewes have been substituted AND
, fat native female stuff has actually
commanded a premium, owing tC
weight. Everybody that put in sheer
! last Fall made money and already in.
quiry is rife for the kind Of ewes thai
were picked up for a mere song last
! fall, and gave phenomenal results
There Is persistent clamor for every.
| thing fit to go on grass in northern
Wisconsin and Michigan, and severa
| Chicago buyers have already gone tc
Montana Cor orders Of around 100000
/ head
Everything ovne is selling in re.
Spouse to tight runs this week every
where excepting at the Ohio river mar.
. kets, which have had seasonable jags
and to a remarkably good constructive
demand in view Of the extravagan
I a week ago and lambs on good Jul,
| basis. The general trade on killing
classes is l5d 25c higher than weel
ago, range yearlings. range lambs ant
native sheep showing the full Csc gair
and native lambs being 15625c higher
considering extreme laxity in the sort
ing process.
Il With lambs selling at record July
| prices, the market for the near future
will naturally be per-scnsitive tt
supply figures. but supply prospect!
for the coming week are not reassur
ing killers, and the high altitude o
Vic DeeI, pork ana veal IldIkelS
naturally eXerting healthy Influence
on the dressed mutton trade. No heav!
run of range stock is in sight for tn,
coming week. though some increase
over this weeks small contribution Il
;, promised, but with eastern markets
practically bare OF choice sheep ant
lambs, and with the run Of southern
stuff due to taper off, the nine-cen
lamb will probably not be easil!
counted out.
II There is hungry demand from Ken
: lucky and Ohio particularly, and from
other midwest states to less marked
degree, for breeding stock and grow
ing inquiry for feeders that give!
season advances. Anything fit To-
breeding in the native stock eve lin'
is being eagerly sought, but supply II
very limited. Aged thin ewes will
good mouths. are being taken at $45'
Il OATS, a right good to choice two t
|, four year-old class at $50 $50, ant
!, yearlings to 1915, while choice 1dah'
week up to $G.40. Prospective feeder
could not have bought desirable feed
ing lambs away from killers here thi
week at 81, had they been available
I packers taking nearly everything
available straigft and paying to $7.5
for few Idaho seconds. Feeding shee
!, are also q near minus quantity an
IS is quotable for good feeding weth
t ers and S5.j065.75 for light feede
, yearlings. A deck Of Montana feed
! ing wethers sold this week at $4.25 blu
r they were very common and the throw
} outs from a string Of $500 head
{ Chicago's sheep receipts this wee
{ were 67,735 head with todays receipt
estimated against ss,719 for the sam