Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-08
DECIDED ADVANCE
N HOG PRICES
DEMAND TURNS ACTIVE ALL
ALONG LINE AND VALUES
ARE BOOSTED.
MODERATE RECEIPTS BRING
COMPETITION IN BIDDING
Cattle Supplies Inadequate to Meet De.
mands and Slight Upturn FoIIows-
Offerings Of Sheep and Lambs Prove
Limited-current Quotations in Chi.


vanced decidedly on active general de-
mand and moderate receipts.
Wha, will happen in the hog market
when the microbe of liquidation be-
gins alternating remains to be devel-
oped, but the talent is making bullish
forecasts regarding March and April
OF course the industrial situation must
be taken into consideration and that is
not improving as time works along,
but that demand for hog product will
Export trade is Of enormous volume
Fresh pork consumption in the United
States is at high tide and Canada is
buying enough American hog product
to more than counterbalance our ex-
penditure for Canadian cattle.
A year ago packers We're conducting
cutting operations with view of max
ing the maximum quantity of meats
and throwing as little into the lard
tank as possible, but the chances are
that efforts to make lard will be in
order shortly. Weight is already
at premium. Every market in the
country is flooded with $50 to 200 pound
stuff, while barrows weighing o75
pounds or more are so scarce that ship
pers have been compelled to fill out
their requirements with scws. Proba-
bly, so per cent Of the Chicago run for
a month past has weighed less than
200 pounds, and unless the pig crop
was much heavier than is generally be-
lieved this can justify but one logical
conclusion.
Cattle.
Cattle supplies were fnadedlate
Good feeding weather is proving a
strong inducement for cattle owners 70
hold marketings down to very moderate
volume, altho the trade looks for
slut of the short-fed and warmed-ups
to come following the first severe
storms Of winter.
The run at 10000 Wednesday COM
pared with 1854 a week ago and a.
169 q year ago, while for three days
this week total was 1920 against 3d.
025 week ago and 1901 year ago.
Six markets had $4,000 cattle for the
day. an increase of 11,100 over last
Wednesday and $500 less than a year
ago. while three days run at the six
points. standing 115.00e. showed 22.-
600 increase over q week ago and q
decrease OF $4,000 compared with mar
ketings q year ago.
Top for heavies was moved up to
the best basis in many weeks past, a
drove of forty prime 1867 pound steers
from Andy Allen. Atkinson. H.. selling
to s. s. Learnard of Boston at $40,
against a $685. top for big steers on
and they were q kind such as
had quality that took only 50 at low
point in December. Charles Myers,
Pike county, Illinois, sold a load of
yearlings and 2year-old steers and
heifers at $9.35 and some 1447-pound
Iowa steers made 1896. while 1855
pound drove went at 1925. Numerous
smooth finished hi gsteers sold at $500
de.15 and a few yearlings around the
former price, but 1t was a small show
ing of light cattle above ss.15 and the
yearling stuff Of comm on TO pretty fair
kind. bu: a little big in the middle"
kinds that kill out relatively poor, had
to go down from IS.
Offerings OF sheep and lambs proved
limited. ..
Everything fat Is making feeders
good money and it is contented army
Of feeders, in the main. who are now
showing up at this market. tho an oc-
casional lot of thin stuff that was no
good when 1t went on feed and little
or no better when it reaches Chicago.
is arriving. 1t appears that lot OF
common thin, coarse-wooled lambs and
toothless ewes left Omaha as feeders
last fall on which satisfactory feed-lot
could not logically be ex-
pected.