Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-24
UPWARD Tendency
IN HOG VALUES
PRICES ADVANCE BECAUSE OF
MODERATE ARRIVALS IN CHI.
cAGo.
CATTLE OFFERINGS NOT
TOO PLENTIFUL FOR NEEDS
Sellers Dispose Of Offerings Without
Making Price Concessions Sheep
and Lambs Searee-Review Of Live
stock Trade Conditions = Prevailing
Prices.
Chicago, April 24-Hog prices a


vanced today. The run was moderate.
Prevailing hog prices are 5g10c
lower than week ago, the general run
of sales being zoe lower than CORE
spending Thursday year ago and soc
higher than two years ago.
a curiosity in the hog alleys today
was a stag weighing go pounds. which
IS within few pounds of the heaviest
stag ever marketed here. Today's piS
trade was in better shape. most sales
being at l0@15c advance.
A total OF $4,000 hogs at eleven mar
kets Thursday stood 1900 smaller
than a week ago and 5000 smaller than
q year ago, the most decrease being
at Omaha. Kansas City and Chicago.
For the first four days of this week
eleven markets received 2S7,0oo. or H.
COO less than a week ago and 26,ooV
less than a year ago. with Chicago
alone credited with 2.400 less than
week ago and 23,100 less than year
ago.
Cattle.
Cattle proves none TOO plentiful and
sellers easily disposed of holdings at
current prices.
Overloaded Monday trade, which had
25,307 cattle, started things adversely
for sellers, and by reason of the big
Monday buying killers had need for less
cattle than arrived Wednesday. altho
that days run of 1865 was mod
crate supply.
Generous Monday runs for seven
weeks past have been the rule. and
their appearance that day signaled
lower deal, while the Wednesday ses-
sion was the first midweek market III
some weeks past that really showed
worse condition for sellers than the
Monday preceding. However, killer
asserted that the 10015 cent decline
quoted Wednesday by no means Gov
cred the bulk of their purchases. claim
ing that due to some generous fills dead
cost Of a lot of cattle figured steady
with Monday.
After the break in recent days a ceS-
saton from generous Monday runs will
be due next Monday if the market is
to show any appreciable recovery. Beef
trade in no quarter is registerig mater
ial betterment and a lot of product is
held in the eastern chill rooms well
as locally. Killers are getting a con-
siderable crop of beef in the east, buy
ing it direct from feed yards. and these
purchases exert a strong influence in
checking demand on shipping account
in the local trade. while increased mar
ketings of Texas cattle at Fort Worth
as well as a more liberal run of stuff
into the river points in recent days has
also put damper on the demand here.
Since the record arrivals of Argen-
tine beef two weeks ago have been
cleared from the hooks in the east,
! there has been little active competition
from this quarter, and only small Ar
gentine beef shipments are due to ar
! rive in New York in the next few
weeks. 1t is likely that any extended
engagement of our troops in Mexico
will call for lot of our beef to be
shipped direct to the commssaries
there, but Argentina is prospective of
getting bulk Of the army contracts, ac-
cording to local beef experts, who as
sert that the difference in cost and dis
! tributing expense is In favor of the
South American beef.
Sheep.
Sheep and lambs were scarce.
Relative scarcity of sheep did not
give that end Of the trade any life
the trade being slow but steady at yes
terday's bottom, closing prices. Some
good shorn wethers at $3.50 were $3.50
goods early in the Week and $3.50 took
q pretty good class here late yesterday
| Generous receipts of Texas grass nut
tons at Fort Worth and Kansas City
this week have been the prime fac tol
IN the slump in matured mutton value;
here. Wooded wethers of the Clark &
Fox, Wisconsin feeders, very good btl
not as classy as the sheep Of this feed
ing here early this week at $3.50, o!
the s7.15G1.20 stuff of last week, hat
TO sell at $50. Some heavy Ohio fer
shorn yearlings also dragged badly ant
We're only wanted at good sheep prices
a few old native shorn wethers sold a
1918. shorn yearlings at s6.25 ant
shorn ewes at $3.50, while choice fet
shorn ewes reached $3.50.