Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-19
RECEIPTS CARS.
POSITION-HEAD.

CATTLE-The yards were practically
bare of cattle today and for the week re-
cteipts have been very light At the same
time there has been about the usual de-
mand for beef steers and prices are 209
SOc higher than at the close of last week
! The advance has been very largely ON
| the medium grades Of cattle which are
now selling higher than ever before In
! the history OF the trade, There Is feel
Ing that as soon as range cattle begin
to move at all freely prices on the
medium grades must come down.
I Cows. and heifers have been scarce all
the week and prices have kept pace with
the advance on beef steers. This means
/ that the market Is at the extreme high
point OF the year todate.
| Stockers and feeders have been in light
| supply and while the demand from the
| country IL ESver very large at this time
\ IL has been sufficient to keep everything
cleared up In good shape. Prices are
strong as compared with the close OF last
week.
Quotations on cattle: Good TO choice
beef steers, Sy.2bGt9.S 80; fair to good beef
steers, SS.7ja925; common 20 fair beef
steers, S7.75GtS.75; choice to fancy cornfed
/ heifers, SSO0dt9.O0; good to choice heifers,
T,5OaSOO; good to choice cows 6.7Odp7. .65
fair to good grades. $5.75Gi6.70; common to
fair grades, $4,000 20; good to choice
stockers and feeders, $75OdS CO., fair to
good stockers and feeders, s6.7b6D7 so;
common to fair stockers and feeders, ST. 25
4676; stock cows and helfers $5.O06D7 90;
stock calves, T0OGS.oO; veal calves. $S.OOd
ll,W; bulls, stays, etc, t5,25dff Co.
| HOGS-A liberal Saturday run showed
up, something like l39 cars, or e,OOO head,
being received. The weeks total of tS, 62t
head is l2,0OO larger than last week, but
$500 smaller than the corresponding week
last year.
With so large supply in sight, and
other markets opening dun and lower,
local buyers started out bidding prices
that were around DC lower than yester-
day The early trade was rather dun. as
1 ~ usual ON down market. but condi-
tons all indicated weaker trade, and II
was not long before quite a number of
strings had been cashed In at figures
that were just about a nickel lower than
yesterdays average, AS the forenoon ad-
Vanced, however, a live killing demand
strengthened up the trade. ana towards
the close quite a number of sales were
made that looked fully steady. IN fact,
there were practically as many hogs sold
steady as there were at the earlier prices,
ana the general market did not look to
De over a shade lower,
All the early arrivals had been cleaned
up by $3.50 or little after, and as the
market had closed lively, and all buyers
were still In the yards, IL looked as though
the seventeen cars, which did not get m
until nearly 10 O'Clock, would sell fully as
well as any other time. After the hogs
had arrived, however. and Il came To a
showdown, IL developed that only one
buyer really wanted the hogs, and as
there were only two killers bidding at
aai stV SA1eHhc CLOSE was IaNneI AlAAle'
That is, a few OF the hogs on the fair TO
good order sold at fully steady prices, but
the majority OF them looked weak, and
some OF the more common ones were hard
70 sell, even at the early morning prices,
which were around &c lower than yester-
days market on the whole, the early
trade can be quoted as steady to &c lower
than yesterdays average, while the last
sales were weak and as a general thing
right at a nickel lower than Yesterday
At late hour there were few loads
left, on which packers were bidding DNi
lOc lower and on one or two instances
no offers were being made,
Bulk OF the sales landed at S. 70GS. .75
with a sprinkling as high as $3.50, and
few at SSS5, the top on the whole,
the weeks market has been fairly salts
factory TO the selling interests, and In
spite OF todRy's slight break are 2Odf25c
higher than the close OF last week. A
new top for the year was set this week
the high price going 10 $3.50. on two days