The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-26
Bic RECEIPTS
WRECK PRICES
ON ALL STOCK
Rapid Decline Frightens the
Farmers Who Put Cattle
on Market to Realize Be-
fore Greater Decrease.
Few Optimistic Traders Pre-
dict Short Duration for
Heavy Run-Experts See
No Relief Signs.

The Indianapolis stockyard's mar
ket is completely demoralized in all
departments, with no relief in sight,
and the packers are predicting Scent
hogs II the receipts continue heavy"
said w. O. Mattern of Indianapolis,
who was visitor at the Glen Miller
yards Saturday.
Mr.. Mattern said this condition was
true for all the large markets in the
county. in Indianapolis 1000 to
1,100-pound CRASHED steers that have
been selling for to 81a cents pound,
are hard to sell at 61a and Z cents.
Heavy cows that have been selling
at to 71a cents are now slow sale at
to 6 cents, and feeders that sold ten
days ago at 71a and IN cents can now
be had at and 61a cents" he con-
tinued.
Farmers Swamp Market.
Receipts in all the large markets
have been unusually large in the last
ten days. Farmers have become
alarmed at the dropping prices, and
are attempting to cover up threatened
losses on feeders bought at 9 cents in
August. A local feeder who is carry
ing $50 hogs, has feed twenty acres
of corn to them already, and last week
weighed his stuff, and found that at
present prices the hogs would fall
short $3.50 head of the cost price in
August
Conditions in the large markets are
reflected in the smaller shipping
points. D. Hackett, who was visitor
at the local yards Saturday. reported
that carloads of hogs were loaded at
Lynn last week, with many more Of
fered for sale. The receipts at the
Glen Miller yards last week was double
that of the week before.
There are some traders of the more
optimistic class, who predict that this
heavy run will be of short duration,
but those who are in a position to
know say low prices will prevail until
after the holidays.
Ship Several Cars.
Several carlods of live stock were
shipped out of the local yards last
week. Receipts for the week were as
follows:
Hogs, 46s. top price Saturday. 6Ac.
Cattle, 20; top price Saturday, 7.
Calves, 80; top price Saturday, 9hc.
Lambs, II; top price Saturday, &C.
The top sale Of hogs for the week
was credited to George Hodgin, on the
M. c. Henley farm north of Richmond,
who delivered 20 hogs of his own rails
ing that averaged 260 pounds, and
brought ST. the top price for the week
Walter Farlow lost valuable
steer on the road to the market Fri
day, on account of the hot weather, an
unusual accident at this time of year.
The following farmers had livestock
on the market last week: George Mil.
Ter, j. p. Bishop, Walter Richey, M. l..
White. Joe l.. King, Joel Moore,
Charles Bullerdick, Dick Conway, J. F.
Thompson, Thad Nichols, Walter Far
low, O. M. Jennings, J. F. Edwards,
James Thompson, Miles Shute, Frank
Huffman, Forest Meeks, Harvey Os-
borne, E. S. Wright, Fred Stats, Fred
Tice, Jesse Gibson, Dan Plankenhorn,
Charles Surface, J. Higgins, W. H. Ed
wards, ID. NJ. Hodgins, James John
ston, James Deffenbaugh, John Bee
son. Cyrus Vandergriff, John Jones,
William Kinsey, John Moody, Omer
Manning. O. F. Bales, Earl Price. AL
len Huff, A. l.. Baldwin, Orval Ellis,
Milton Morris