Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-09
PRICES CONTINUE
AWAITING stunt.
PRICES ON HOGS STILL SOARING
AND NEW HIGH LEVELS
REACHED.
DEMAND REMAINS ACTIVE
DESPITE ADVANCING VALUES
cattls Quotations Remain on Firm
Basis and Price Range Narrows
somewhat-Inquiry For Sheep and
Lambs Only Observation-Disclosures Of
Market Observation-Disclosures.

Chicago. July a-Active demand to-
day continued to make the hog mar
ket soar.
The new advance forced the top up
TO sS.TTie, which stood the highest
since April %, when $3.50 was paid.
and the average also stood the highest
since that session. There is talk OF
the 5000 mark, which up to date has
not been surpassed this year Pigs
were not in very urgent request and
prices were only steady. Shippers can
celed some orders for prime pigs, as
they were unable to get enough to NIL
out with, but the plain kinds were not
wanted by anybody.
Continued light receipts here and at
the other markets east and west has
baked packers in their efforts TO hold
prices down and sellers had no trouble
getting higher bids for anything de-
sirable. At the start there was prac-
tically no quite, for the common kinds,
as BUYERS went after the scarcer OF
ferngs first and then returned to the
plain stock. shippers Were good buy
ers and sales at 1910 and higher were
Quite numerous, while very little sold
much below $40. There was a good
clearance made, as packers were
forced into the trade al the prevailing
price or go short.
Cattle quotations remained OF fir.
basis.
There exists some difference of opin-
ion as to how much corn remains in
cribs in the beef making section OF
western Illinois where the customary
practice is TO buy sappy steers from
Kansas pastures about the time long
grass in that quarter gives out and
give them a hard finish on corn for
brief period This usually gives Chi
cago access to a lot OF fat cattle in
October, November and December. but
it is an old corn proposition. new
wrinkle has developed this year. thou
sands of Texas steers having been
held back on Panhandle grass instead
Of making the usual spring migration
to Kansas pastures. Grass was sooo
in the Panhandle while last years
drouth impaired the carrying capacity
of Flint Hills pastures in Kansas, con-
sequently the spring migration was 80
per cent less than normal. This VIII
not curtail supply OF sappy feeders,
however. as reports from panhandle
pastures are roseate and if Illinois has
the corn TO finsh them fall beef making
in that territory will be on the usual
scale. especially IL values OF finished
cattle advance in manner calculated
to furnish the necessary incentive to
put them in.
Sheep.
Inquiry for sheep and lambs was only
moderate.
No complaint was found with the
sheep end of the trade. Native ewes
sold at firm prices and nine cars OF
range sheep, practically all wethers
went about steady. Oregon wethers
repeated their Sc performance on Tues
day, and three cars of good Montana
wetheI's, lately shorn, got $3.50. Two
other loads OF Montana wethers, last
of train recently running, and tail
end class carried a plain top end that
sold at s5.25.
1t was generally s4.5a5 market
for fat native ewes, with handy
weights as recently, getting all the best
Of the call, while city butchers paid to
1875 for few native and fed western
ewes OF handy weight and packers Sc
cured some right good heavy natives al
s4.5Om4.s0 Culls sold downward from
81, a government" kind as low as s29
$50 and a sood sort a, $3.50.