Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-14

SUPPLIES IN LIBERAL
QUANTITY, COMPARATIVELY
Receipts of Nearly 10000 More Than
Mondays Market Could Well Absorb
Cattle Steady For Best. Others
Sell Down-Prices Still at Civil War
Time Levels.
Time Levels

Chicago. Sept 1i-Bidders failed tc
sustain Saturdays hog prices here to-
day, anu sales after the opening which
Was slow We're down 10 and 10 cents
Packers did not seem to be anxious &c
bid, and with plenty TO pick from took
their choice at the reduced prices.
Receipts of hogs at Chicago Tor the
week to;aIed $500 the smallest since
first week OF July 1911, when official
supply aggregated 62.132. or 36,4o0 less
than previous week, 1900 less than
same week last year and $4,000 less
than CORES ponding week two years
ago.
Estimated average weight of hogs for
the week at Chicago vas 241 pounds,
or pounds lighter than previous week.
70 pounds heavier than Year ago and
6 pounds heavier than two years ago.
| Arrivals We're actually Of increased
weight but the reweighing of many
! 10 10 225 pound lots caused the light
! er average of hogs weighed.
! Average price of hogs at Chicago for
| the week figured 50 and there vas no
!
! or % cents lover than previous week.
- cents higher than year ago. when
4 the range was wider than al present.
j and IS cents higher than tWo years
| 60 Top was SO so, against sq.-5 last
| week. 1896 year ago and s9..Ii a TWO
! years ago.
Eleven markets received 1900 hogs
/ Saturday. making o7eoo0 for the week
/ ~ "a #
| tember. 1910. when only $50, 900 We're
received or 1o0.o 900 less than previous
week. IS. 900 less than same week last
year and $4,000 less than corresponding
week TWO years go Total for 1914 to
date 15.sa3.ooo. or 1,o55.ooo less than
same period 1918 and l.s21,0o0 less than
CORES ponding time 1912.
Cattle.
/ While best cattle We're steady. they
were difficult TO sell md concessions of
: and 10 cents we're required to move
the liberal supply offered. Receipts
We're estimated at $4,000, which Is more
than the market has been receiving on
recent Mondays.
Highest prices since the civil war
are now quoted in the trade for rank
! and file of steers. Exceptions are the
T, tops. an Sill high spot last week. COM
pairing with top of sl1.25 IN December,
| 1912, but the eleven centers last week
We're at least 25 cents palmer in finish
than the s10.95 toppers the previous
1 week.
The trade is now firmly Of the belief
! that prices for tops VIII go consider
! ably higher, and q half dollar or
| full dollar advance on them before the
season is over Will not come as a sur
prise. The top limit Will depend main
| " upon consumers willingness to fol-
| low the necessary advances at retail.
From a supply standpoint much
| higher level will be consistent be-
/ cause of the paucity Of choice steers.
! The past weeks supply OF finished
! heavy and yearliug beeves was light
, CT than any time this season.
| As a result of the scarcity of high
/ ly finished steers a lot of stuff has
sold at $1,000 a 1910 as substitutes for
that kind, which in ordinary times
would have been classed as merely
| good carcass makers Bulk of the
| corn feds sold at ss.T5d10a0 for
medium warmed up TO right good kind,
| including fair quota of yearlings. and
IL was slim showing above 5000.
only few odd lots making $4,000
1890, yeariing steers ard heifers
! topping at 5000.
| A generous quota OF grassers and
corn warmed light and middle weight
| steers scored at ss.25ds.75 many Of
them coming thirty u forty days
sooner than their owners intended
marketing them because corn has
worked TO practically prohibitive
cost of la te. This stuff had range COM
/ petition, but the hardest range COM
petition came for the lower quality ma
tives. Still where the light ones had
at all decent breeding they aught a
lot of feeder demand.
Killers bought trashy light natives
! down TO s1.25@7.65 AMI Gamers
s,iound ;7.2G, but the ouin Vi stuff
that they got below $500 haG no class
at ali to command feeder favor.
| Weeks run was fairly liberal de-
1 spite the Monday holiday. but closed
shop on Monday was good thing for
the trade in that il permitted killers to
bought eagerly thereafter. An export
trade to the extent Of $4,000 quar-
tiers loaded at seaboard for Europe.
however. was doubtless a keen incen-
tive to the good demand, and too, the
Argentina shipments this way having
been cut off. the pressure Of foreign
competition in the east is no longer
factor.
I Sheep.
Strength which prevailed ut the close
last week continued in the sheep diyis
+ ion
Compared with the close. or~high time
\ of one week ago, fat lambs show fully
/ 35 q soc advances and feeder classes
! 10015c gain. Western sheep and ewes
close strong to Is cents higher than a
! week ago and native ewes are 1926
cents up. Yearlings are up quarter
or more in sympathy with lambs and on
scarcity, very few having arrived.
Feeding sheep and yearings have been
very scarce all week and are selling
strong to higher than a week ago and
are quotable at best levels of the
season, as are feeding lambs.
Meager supplies on eastern markets.
increasing packer call in the west, and
sending shipping orders this way in
greater volume, the hunger OF feeder
demand and high price of beef and pork
) have been the leading factors in the
advance this week. Receipts at west
ern points show but q moderate de-
crease from the week previous, but are
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