Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-28
PACKING cENTERs RECEIVE
LARGER SUPPLIES THAN Ex-
PEcrED At WEEKEND.
PRICES FORCED LOWER
BECAUSE OF LIBERAL RUNS
Quotation. For Cate Almost Nominal
Most Of Sheep and Lambs Reach
ing Yards Consigned Direct to Pack
ers-Review Of Market Conditions
Current Prices.

Chicago Nov. aS.-HogS receded IN
price today on account of the total sup
ply at the principal packing points be-
ing considera Oily larger tnan expected.
Traders are counting on run OF
5000 to 10000 Tor next Monday, out
until the new order OF things gets in
a settled condition II is best not to snip
too freely Ii is expected eastern ship
pers viii have moderate orders TO fill
next Monday bat it must be re|leH-
hsrei they can buy only stock shipped
in from outside the quarantine line.
which will be yarded separately.
Release OF Iowa, and Wisconsin from
quarantine means Hooded hos mar
ket, but packers appear to regard pur-
cnases made at 1925 q 80 as excellent
investment Marketable hogs have
accumulated. especially IN Iowa and
Wisconsin, during the quarantine
period ard when that handicap 10 mar
kes activity has been removed health
Ter condition is expected. Restoration
of eastern com petition here would
probably restore an SIS trading basis
promptly ard as the winter advances
a gradual ascent is expected. AT pres
ent prices hogs are low. especially
when compared With cattle and sheep.
Cattle.
Quotations for cattle were almost
on the lower and medium quality
steers it is trade hardly more than
zoe higher than low time ten days ago.
In fact, TOR some of the poorer lag nj
steers ranging DOWN from $40 hardly
csc gain has been registered this weeh-
Such stuff has been here in fairly gen
erous supply. proporticnate with the
demand. and /, te.Eg exclusively To-
cal outlet as q result OF the embargo
or outgoing shipments. killers have
paid most advance only for the kinds
tina, had the most urgent demand
The trade is pulling for very mod
crate run at the START next week Even
tho the shipping oeIses - probable o.
being reopened TO stock from clean
states. sellers sa; thu market w.H not
DC in position To handle generous
run. II must be borne in mind that
beef is IN bad reputs with the public.
publicity g.vea the foot
and mouth disease outbreak has oper-
ated to prejudice the consumer against
a beef diet even despite federal guar
an.ee Of the purity OF the packinghouse
product.
Thanksgiving poultry consumption
has been heavy and the consumer will
be picking turkey bones for some little
time ahead The eastern aughterins
concerns have been getting a fair
quota OF beef IN the western markets.
shipping cattle thru in sealed ears. and
even tho the shipping outlet Is opened
here next Monday there ia strong PROB
ability that only avery moderate out
side demand will prevail
Illinois stock must be shipped con-
serva lively, since big lot Of il here
next week viii be certain 10 find outlet
TO killers at wide discount from prices
made by stoc.. from clean states by
reason os the competition latter stuff
Will &c; and which will lie minus as
far as Illinois stock is concerned
Argentine shipments IN the cast are
heavy again. but q lot of this beef is
beirg transhipped 10 England for war
use argentina loaded out 25.G00 quar-
tiers for New YORK the past week, while
none was shipped 4 week previous. For
the year TO date, total shipments from
Buenos Aires to New York stand AL
500 quarters.
Sheep.
Most Of the sheep and lambs had
been consigned direct TO killers.
The advance Yesterday lifted the
lamb market 10 !eTel mostly 10 cents
higher than high time last Friday and
that much above the previous nigh
spot his month reached on Nov s. the
day the yards were closed by quaran.
tine. Yesrlings are as high as at any
time this month, as are best 2year- old
weshers. Most aged sheep while show
ing strong TO higher levels than a week
ago today. are still 1925 cents lower
than high spot the first week Of the
month.
Live mutton has been making record
prices When. lambs sell at $4,000
935 in November the grower has little
cause for complaint. Present sheer
prices are also suggestiye OF
profit. Forecasters of mutton scarcity
long described. are now making good
The. west has been liquidating il
wholesale manner for years and ha.
reached the end of its rope. The corr
belt states are seriously short of the
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