Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-04
ADDED CONCESSIONS
FROM HOG SELLERS
TRADE CONTINUES SLOW AND
PRICE REDUCTIONS AGAIN
NECESSARY.
BULK SELLS PROMO
TO is CENTS LOVER


Slim Quota OF Steers Expected Until
N-xt Week-Monday to Sc Holiday
at Yards-Sheep Steady.
Chicago. sept. Hog values We're
again lower today, and bicuins 'Tas
slow. pa4c.iers and shippers taking their
! pick OF the offerings and debating their
. own igures. The hulk o. sales were
: made on :. basis 10 and - cents under
7 THURSDAYS Levels
: Packers are aplrehensiys OF slo
hog market They are res"lutely nsht-
ing an upward movement OF prices
against strong ODDS.
Supply is woefuily deficient and
competition keen Under 50 the big
: local houses were free buyers, but for
a week past the market has been GET
ting away from them. Chicago had
only 10000 Wednesday, and there We're
out 81 GOO at eleven markets.
(; Unless cholera sends food OF pigs
1 to market September and October re-
ceipts viii be light. and pigs are not
convertible into much product. altho
they satisfy fresh meat demand. In
roads made by disease into the 1915
| pig crop are becoming more apparent
daily
i Compared with the same period OF
1872. when hog supply was normal. re-
ceipts a, the eleven principal markets
T. OF the United States since Jan. are
only Is. 300. 600 against 1850 o1o.
| The new crop of pigs. which If
health is maintained. win not be avail
! bic for several months. is no larger
than that of 1913, SO that continued
high prices are certain.
| Receipts were estimated at 1900 on
| Thursday or about as generally ex-
! pected, but with lay over Of 6.752
| total offerings We're more than demand
could handle and the decline was the
result. Four days receipts this week
total about .s,40O head. being $4,000
| less than same days last week. 1880
less than year ago and 1900 less
than corresponding period two years
| ago.
| Eleven markets received so, 100 hogs
Thursday. or 800 less than last
Thursday, 500 more than year ago
and 800 more than two years ago.
Total thus far this week, $4,000. or
| %, olO less than same period last week.
$1,000 less than like time last year and
$4,000 more than corresponding four
days two years ago. Total for 1914 to
date 1857 900, or 1.01s,o0o less than
same period 1913 and 1,s11,000 less
than corresponding time 1912.
Cattle.
Cattle trade was weak, following the
sudden dropping Of the bottom from the
market near the close Thursday.
| The trade viii get slim quota OF
! native steers from now until next
| Wednesday. due to the fact that next
! Monday, for the first time in history
I Of the yards, Labor Day will be cele-
brated by a closed shop here. No
! trading will be done under new rule
! Of the Chicago Livestock Exchange.
! Thus next Tuesday will be opening
! day of the week in the market and
While generous run Of range steers
| is expected that day. at least 5000. i,
| IS not likely that very liberal crop
of natives win De here. Still the esti-
| mates for that day range all the way
| from 5000 TO 5000 It X not believed
! however, that native cattle viii come
in free volume until next Wednesday.
| Despite this situation the killers are
a decidedly bearisn lot now. They
simply closed UP shop in the market
late Wednesday and would buy cattle
at big declines or not at all. while a
like condition OF affairs prevailed in
! today's session.
| The trade still quotes me prime
goods practically I'D to levels estab-
lished earlier this week. hut there was
nothing OF that kind offered with which
to test the strength of demand. How
ever, had prime goods been here 1t is
probable that even these would have
sc,t declines. since killers did not an
pear 10 have urgent orders Tor the ton
grade goods.
For four DAYS this week the supply
locally stood $500. agains 1892 a
week ago and $3.50 year ago. and the
fact-of an increase in receipts over
week ago can De accredited as partial
reason at least for the swift break IN
the price list Killers obviously are
| determined to pu. the lid down on bull
ish sentinen in the market at every
above actual trade needs in lines. OF
mean beef action in the retail shops
makes il an opportune time 10 swing
the war club over the market. Six
markets supply for the week TO date
istood l3s,oAs against $4,000 a week
ago and 5000 a year ago
Sheep.
Sheep market turned steady. there
having been a marked falling off In ar
! rivals during the past two days.
Declines Of early in the week have
ibeen more than regained in the range
end of the trade and present prices
stood strong to 10 cents higher than
las, Friday on the bulk of fat grades,
while some sales showed Is cents adj
Vance. Native offerings were in less
idesirabl flesh than rangers and the
market for them looked generally
steady with the close last week. Feed
ling grades were 1925 cents higher
than the low spot late last week, and
tearly this week. and the demand has
taken a sudden squirt. with the sup
ply unequal to the outlet.