Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-28
SELLERS UNABLE
70 APPLY BRAKES
HOG MARKET APPEARS HEADED
DOWN GRADE At RAPID
PACE.
BULK OF OFFERINGS
SELL AT $3.50 TO $3.50
Cattle Offerings Not Attractive But
Steady Prices Are Maintained
Sheep and Lambs in Poor Request
Review Of Market conditions-Pre.
vaiIins Prices at Livestock centsrs.

| Nh!caSo April -S-Ihe hog market
today headed down grade
The sultry weather Monday had
much effect in breaking prices The
warm weather Sunday and Monday
was responsible for many dead hogs
arriving at the yards the largest num-
Der OF the season, the result of the heat
and shippers should be careful not to
load too heavy with the weather so
warm.
Mondays run was smaller than most
expected. At the start it was estimai-
/ ed at $4,000 and later raised to about
$4,000. This number included about
$500 hogs direct 10 packers from other
markets The run AT $4,000 was $500
more than Week ago. $4,000 less than
, a year ago and $500 less than CORES
ponding day two years ago. There
We're l.125 hogs carried over from Sat
urday.
Cattle.
Cattle offerings were not attractive
| but prices held steady.
Conditions in beef trade continue only
fair. Movement from coolers is little
freer than a few weeks past. and the
bad beef market" argument so long
used as a bear leverage is losing its grip
on The trade. 1t has been plainly APP
parent for ten days past that killers
have had use for fairly generous sup
ply Of beef. since they have access to
small quota of Argentine product
now. and ravy demands in the east
have absorbed 10, of stuff which was
held in storage houses.
The east has had a small crop OF
! Argentine beef for weeks past. and last
week only 1904 quarters were I'M
| loaded at New York. while there is
small supply due to land this week
! The National Provisioner. speaking
! of Argentine price says:
| Imports OF fresh meats al the port OF
New York during the past week were
I confined to trans shipments via Liver
pool. both from Argentina and Aus
tralia Regular weekly saiiings Of
direct boats from South America have
not yet been put IN operation. and as a
result there was a gap Of about ten
| DAYS between arrivals of direct ship
ments from there. Direct Australian
| service will be intermittent until the
/ Panama caral is opened, when New
/ York will De brought nearer these an
! tipodean sources of supply than is
| London.
I
1904 quarters of beef. $50 quarters Of
veal 1000 sheep and s2S lamb carcasses,
all via Liverpool. OF this 1883 quar-
| tiers Of chilled beef were from South
America and 1886 quarters Of frozen
beef from Australia. The veal and
mutton was all frozen Australian stuff.
! 1t was first Monday trade in nearly
! Two months when supply was actually
not above the requirements Of killers
and the shippers an Indication that
/ country shippers have tired of unload
| ing freely on Mondays. though the fact
that demands were we'll filled from the
| supply at hand would seem 10 make
| generous midweek shipping bad bust
! ness policy. Ability Of killers to hold
the market close down TO levels shown
last week plainly evidenced no material
! growth in beef demands either here or
eastward and with killers buying still
! ers and corn cattle Kentucky and a
| generous crop of corn feds moving
from Ohio and Pennsylvania into the
eastern abat;oirs and Texas also IN
! loading freely of grass cattle. II Is
wrong time for brewing Of buliish SEN
timent merely by reason Of moderate
supply hitting the local trade.
Sheep.
/ Request tGE Sheep ana iaHioS F" aS
| poor.
Colorado shippers have asserted
that only I35 10 $50 carloads Of lambs
are now back in Colorado feed lots,
certainly small number for this time
of the year. but over 500 carloads Of
fed western and Colorado-fed stock are
auartered at the big feeding stations
around Chicago. and the southern
spring lamb movement is expected to
get we'll under Roadway within another
| twenty days. California Is also report
ed ready to move several trains OF
spring lambs this way, and some Ari-
IONA springs reached Kansas City last
week. Consequently. if supply gap
develops il will be OF brief duration.