Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-15
OF ORDERS HAS
WEAKENING EFFECT ON
PRICES IN CHICAGO.
OFFERING OF CATTLE
NOT TOO PLENTIFUL
Market Holds Steady Because Of Light
ness of SuppIies-importAtio Con.
tinus to Be Source Of Worry to Sell.
srs-SIew Trade in Sheep and Lambs
Division.

chicago, April 11-Curfailrn ent OF
eastern orders had a weakening effect
today on the hog market.
Packers are still discriminating
against big heavy packers which
are generally rejected from loads and
have &c sell on their merits, largely
at sS.40 $50. Pigs met with a fair
; demand and prices were but slightly
changed. going largely at SS.25 $50
for better offerings.
Eleven markets received $500 hogs
Tuesday. O. 1900 less than last Tues
day. 21.So0 less than a year ago and
$500 less than two years ago. Total for
two days this week 10000. or 5000 less
than same period last week and $4,000
less than like time last year and 49,
600 more than corresponding two days
two years ago. Total for 1914 to date
$4,000. or 10000 less than some Pc
Rod 1913 and 1.es0.oOO less than CORE
spending time 1912.
Cattle.
Cattle were not any too plentiful
In no quarter is there any free move
ment of beef. Eastward the big supply
OF Argentine product, new record
volume having come into New York
last week. totaling $3.50 quarters, is
reported as having a dull market, since
its cost to the consumer is discounted
very little from domestic product, and
high retail cost Of the latter beef is the
chief bar to broad demand. Some Of
the Argentine beef is still moving west
and few shops in Chicago are carry
ing it, but there is short demand for
the stuff where it is labeled correctly.
The consumer shows a strong prejudice
in favor of homegrown beef. and right
ly he should IN view of the difference in
taste, which Is credited to the corn
belt.
That the market will continue to be
Influenced by the Argentine product is
a we1l-grounded belief among traders,
but it is having small effect on trade
for the choice goods and the country is
| showing a disposition to ship imma-
turely finished cattle less literally in
recent weeks, since the matter Of re-
/, placing them calls for big cost of
feeder stuff.
In many quarters tendency now is to
| feed out the immature grades, since
there has passed over lot of the gloom
that gripped beef makers short time
back. They are looking ahead to a short
late spring and summer crop of ripe
beeves and industrial conditions show
| ing UP little more favorably in the
near future should make lower beef
steer prices improbable.
Sheep.
| 1t was slow day for sheep and
lambs.
Lamb prices still stand relatively
high compared with other weeks this
year, but rule around 80 cents lower
than year ago. No feeders were Of
! fered, but several country buyers were
! around making inquiry for suitable
stuff Springers were lacking. even the
! it is the time of the year when several
lots usually come daily, altho it is sew
| eral weeks before the southern season
| will be on. Shorn westerns and wooded
| Colorados formed around two thirds Of
the total crop.
A shipper gave $3.50 for some prime
seventy-six wooded Colorado Mexicans
| but there were fewer sales at that price
than on Monday. Packers usually
wanted best around $40. and they Sc.
cured extra good ones at 1925, which
went sorted Monday at $40. Other
northern offerings could not duplicate
Mondays price of ss.25. Some fairl,
good ones were wanted at $500 under
a light sort, and similar offerings thu
previous day made $500 straight. Owe
500 head of extra good seventy
pound fed westerns landed at 1925, bu
few others were on hand in this divis
ion, and only a few odd natives wer,
on sale.