The Delta independent., 1915-06-04
LIVE STOCK PRICES
AT SOUTH 0MAKA A
Cattle Market Steady to Ten
Cents Higher.
HOGS AVERAGE FIVE TO TEN Up

Lambs Make From Ten to Fifteen
Cent Advance, Reaching New High
Mark For the Season-No Aged
Sheep on Sale.
Union Stock Yards. South Omaha
May 26.-Cattle receipts yesterday
amounted to 400 head. The market
ranged from strong to 10c higher, the
advance being mostly on the choice
medium and lightweight beeves. De
mand was vigorous from both local
packers and shippers, and trading was
lively from start to finish. the general
market ruling strong to dime higher
than last week. Tops were yearlings
and sold at $500. the best of the
heavy beeves selling up to $50. The
market for cows and heifers was very
little different from Monday. the good
light cows and heifers finding a free
outlet at strong figures, and the heavy
ind rough kinds being as usual rather
uneven sellers. Prime heifers sell ur
around $500 and above and the bulk
OF the butcher and beef stock sells
around s6.25G7 90. Veal calves were
in limited supply, active demand and
firm. and there was good strong
market for bulls. stays and rough stock
generally. Stocker and feeder bust
ness continued quiet Choice stock
both heavy and light, is readily sala
bic at strong figures. while the gen
eral run of stock cattle and feeding
steers is selling very much the same
as toward the close OF last week.
Prime feeders command $500 and BET.
ter. while the bulk of the feeding
stock is selling around s70Od750.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
yearlings. sS.40G 800; good to choice
oorn-fed beeves. ss.25ds.65: fair tc
good corn-fed beeves. sS.00GS25:
common TO fair corn-fed beeves. $3.50
q 500: good to choice heifers s7.00G
500; good to choice cow Sc S0G76o;
fair to good cows. s5.75d6.so; com.
mon TO fair cows. s3.75G5.75; good to
choice stockers and feeders. s75oT
7.S5: fair to good stockers and feed.
ers, s7o0G750; common to fair stock.
ers and feeders, s6.OOG7.0o: stock
heifers. Sc o0G7 90: stock cows. s5.75
calves. ss.0oG10.75; fat bulls, stags.
etc. $5.50G7.25: stock bulls. s567.
I The supply OF hogs yesterday was
about $500 head. A strengthening in
values at other points allowed the To-
cal trade to recover all of Mondays
decline. Shippers purchases were nc
more than a nickel higher. being made
largely around s7.35, or a little less,
but packers opened little better than
that. and when they started out to
make their purchases 1t was at figures
that we're right at 5G10c higher.
Sheep and lamb receipts yesterday
amounted to 400 head. Under the IN.
nuence OF encouraging advices from
outside points and a good local de
mand the bulk OF lambs on sale moved
up. and by some traders were quoted
as much as 10000 higher. Shorn
lambs reached new high mark for
the season. two loads of good stuff on
the light order turning the trick. Some
81 the same lambs that were good
enough to bring SO so Monday sold at
$500 yesterday. and prices paid for all
the offerings ranged largely at s970
$1,000. No wooled lambs showed up
yesterday. There were no aged sheep
OF any sort on sale; in fact. nothing in
the mutton line has shown up this
week. Supplies for the two days are
the smallest of the year.
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
lambs, shorn. light, sa6o61o.oo;
lambs. shorn heavy. IS eo6s.75: ewes.
shorn. s6.7567.25.