Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08

CATTLE Receipts, as usual on a Sat
urday, were not large enough 10 De OF
any consequence For the week the total
shows little change as compared with the
previous week. but is considerably
smaller than a year ago,
Beef steers. cows and heifers have ad-
being 25c higher than last week. The
market on stOckers and feeders has
s:umped badly, II being almost Impossible
during the last half OF the week 70 dis
pose Of cattle of that kind excepting
when carrying sufficient flesh to be
utll zed by the packers, The general mar
ket on stockers and feeders Is around 2au
s6c 10 Tcr tnan last week. Stock COWS ana
he1eis are FULLY 2Sc lower, while stock
calves are anywnere from JOc TO as mach
as Sl.oO lower.
The loot and mouth disease has rem
dered the situation this week very UNI
certain, and while packers have bought
freely IN anticipation OF shortage OF
beef later on, the trade In feeders has
been hampered TO such an extent that
prices have broken badly. No one can
form the slightest idea as to what the
coming week Will bring forth. hut II
would look at present writing as II there
ought to be good demand for every
thing carrying flesh enough for the kill
ers.
Quotations on Cattle Good to choice
cornLed beeves, SS.0Od1l.50; fair to good
cornfed beeves, $s.OOel5.U0; common to fair
cornfed beeves, SS.75QS.O0; good to choice
range beeNes, SItehS.OO; fair to good range
/ pScNceB 20 lO1tfVi common 10 Idlf IdnSe
| beeves, S.0OQd.I6; good to choice grass
heifers sJtUdt7.00; good TO choice grass
cows, S.7bd6.oU; lair to good grades, to.W
GEO; coinniot. 20 fair grades. s4.WdS,VO;
prime feeders, e. 00fis.i5; good to choice
stocKers and feeders, Nzyq7.S5; far to
good stockers and feeders, S. 606ri.20; COM
mon TO iair stoekers anu 1eeuers, $1.SOa
$50; stock he.lers, SO 7oQ60O; stock cows,
calves, N,0'9le.GO; bulls, stage, etc, A.iO
BEEF STEERS.
SS............1ate 10 W ss....,......lssi . Is
. " iO"At.NG,
! 10 cows, ~, SH Is heaters. I20 o.
HOqs-heceipts were the largest for a
| Saturday for some time about elghty-six
, cars, or e,@ head, being received. Total
Tor the week is B,4o4 head. n gain OF
more than sOOO over last week, but about
! 1.6OO smaller than last year.
! Packers were slow In starting out this
MOI ming, and 1t was rather late before
that were unevenly higher, but first
4 packer bids Just about steady with the
| low time yesterday, that Is they were
somewhat lower than Fridays average
killer trade, AS they had little informa-
ton on other markets TO guide them, and
really thought they ought 10 get more
lnonoy, sAlesnlen were In no hurry to cut
loose, but when little later packer
/ levOl, supplies started to move, slowly at
first, and later with fair degree OF
activity SAs result, the big end Of
the supply was soon moving at about
] steady prices.
shippers were very light buyers, and
only few hogs were sold to them. The
! Quarantine I'm Iowa made them very par
tlcular as to the originating point of
such stuff az they did buy, and they re-
| fused to look at any Iowa hogs. Prices
paid were sharply lower than the shipper
trade yesterday morning, and were in
fact only little better than the killer
market
Bulk Of the sales were made at 1880
/ 1.4O, with tops reaching $3.50 For the
week values show an advance Of l0Qtl5c
/ Up until Thursday prices were generally
steady, and while values made a quarter
advance on that day, packing grades
| dropped OFF sharply on Friday, with
shippers taking theirs off today. Prices
ale SO uneven that the average is very
misleading and cannot be taken as an
Indication even OF the general trend OF
the market.
A very slack demand for pigs anC
( shoats resulted IN sharp drop IN prices
| some sales made during the carrier par
or the trace did not look so much lower.
put later sales were quoted anywher
from soc 10 Sl00 hundI ed lower Pig
| weighing over 100 pounds sold as low AZ
S0W: Bulk OF today's pig sales was mad
AZ $6.OOu600, while IL will be remembers,
that nothing sold under the $500 mari
yesterday.