Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-21
LIBERAL RECEIPTS At ALL CEN.
TIERS OF TRADE INCLINE
PRICES TO WEAKNESS.
SLIGHT CONCESSIONS
ACCORDED TO BIDDERS
Broader Shipping Demand Gives
Strength to Cattle Market-8uyers
Of Sheep and Lambs Appear Deter.
mined to Keep Requirements at Min
innr.-Re.!eu Of Market Conditions.

/ made hog prices tend to recede.
/ Receipts of hogs at Chicago for the
| week totaled 1O7,700, the lightest since
| the second week OF May, a decrease OF
| 206G compared with the previous
! week, $500 compared with the same
week last year and 1920 compared
with the corresponding week two years
/ ago.
Average weight of hogs of Chicago
! for the week was estimated at 22S
| pounds or pounds lighter than the
previous week. pounds lighter than
! the same week last year and II pounds
| lighter than the corresponding Week
two years ago. Country offerings OF
! heavy stock have materially increased
but the reweighing of many us to go
pound lots keeps the average of stun
weighed down.
Hogs at Chicago for the week topped
at $3.50, against $3.50 the previous week
and compared with sS.45 year ago
and 1896 two years ago. Average price
figured s7.45, the lowest since the third
week of April Is cents lower than the
previous week, so cents lower than the
same week last year and s1,15 lower
than corresponding week two years
agc.
Broader shipping demand gave
strength to the cattle market.
Grass is becoming a seasonable fac
tor and it may not be out of place to
again admonish the country to hold
back light slippery stuff. While Tex
ans are not plentiful, packers are get
ting $50 to 1850 pound grassers in the
southwest at $3.50 @7.35, some of them
having had cake, and an increasing
movement of this stuff is seasonable.
The season is here when buyers get
stung on grassers and they are on the
alert to avoid bad figures on the dress
ing stockery stuff. Little grassers
! weighing around $50 pounds have sold
around IS this week and killers did not
snuggle up to them at the price. Where
possessing quality they would have
been worth s7.25@7,50 had the feeder
outlet been open. Sacrificing such cat
tie at this juncture is unwarranted and
it will pay to keep them growing.
Eastern orders have not been abun-
| dant, showing that some stuff is NOV
| ing in that direction. but New York
| has taken some kosher stuff. Pennsyl-
vania feed lots are being depleted and
| Virginia will soon be contributor to
the grass beef supply but cattle short
age everywhere east Of the Mississippi
river is unquestionable as depletion
has been carried on vigorously and few
| cattle have been reinstated during the
| past six months.
| Argentina forwarded nothing the past
week, but q sprinkling of this stuff can
| be looked forward to few months yet,
altho bulk practically of it is being re-
| shipped abroad. 1t is. therefore a neg
alive factor in the domestic situation,
while the steers which are now go
! ing for export to the French army we'll
| evidence the fact that killers, altho
| shipping heavily of refrigerator beef
| for consumption by the allied forces,
| are not getting enough to supply their
| demands.
| Sheep.
| Buyers of sheep and lambs seemed
prepared to keep requirements to a
minimum.
/ The market has received the drub-
! bling recently which everybody in the
trade had realized for several weeks
past could not be long deferred. Bad
dressed mutton markets, the top-heavy
/ condition in which the live market
! had been for some time past, better,
tho below normal supplies at points
receiving southern and southwestern
| stuff, and the appearance at Omaha OF
q number of loads of Idaho stock, at
1 Kansas City of Arizona and Texas
consignments, and packers determine
ton to put values down to safer
working basis, were factors in the
wrecking of the price list.
This weeks local receipts will total
about 49,7G0 head, of which 20,950 came
direct TO packers, chiefly thru the
Louisville gateway. Receipts here the
preceding week were 51,641, and year
ago 74,573. Six western markets have
had combined supply of $4,000 head
an increase of 31,000 over the week
previous, but 10000 head less than Z
year ago. The decrease in Chicago
ovine receipts for the year to date are
now slightly over the 100000 head
mark, compared with the same period
last year.