The state herald., 1915-05-28
LIVESTl0CK'PR|'i Il
AT SOUTH OMAHA
Cattle Market Steady to Ten
Cents Higher.
HOGS AVERAGE FIVE TO TEN UF
Lambs Make From Ten to Fifteen
Cent Advance, Reaching New High
Mark For the Season-No Aged
Sheep on Sale.

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. Do
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 beeyes selling up to $S.70. The
market for cows and heifers was very
| little different from Monday, the good
light COWS and heifers finding = free
outlet at strong figures. and the heavy
and rough kinds being as usual rather
uneven sellers. Prime heifsrs sell up
around $500 and above and the bulk
of the butcher and beef stock sells
around s6.254700. Veal calves were
in limited supply, active demand and
firm, and there was a 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
Bile 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 s70097.50.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
yearlings. sS.4O19.oO: good to choice
cornfed beeves, sS.259S65; fair to
good cornfed beeves, ss.00GS25:
common to fair corn-fed beeves, $3.50
| a 500; good to choice heifers. s7006
500: good to choice COWS, SO S0d76O:
fair to good COWS. s5.7596.SO; com.
mon to fair COWS, s3.75G5.75; good to
choice stockers and feeders. $500
7.S5; fair to good stockers and feed.
ers, s7OOa750; common TO fair stock.
ers and feeders. s6.OOa7.OO: stock
heifers, s6OOg7OO: stock cows. s5.7j
| 6.T5: stock calves. s6.50dS5O; veal
calves, ss,OoG1O75: fat bulls. stays,
etc. s5.5OdT25: stock bulls. s5G7
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 n nickel higher. being made
largely around s7.35. or little less.
but packers opened n little better than
that. and when they started out to
make their purchases II was at figures
that were right at 5alOc higher.
Sheep and lamb receipts yesterday
amounted to 2.7OO head. Under the in.
nucnce OF encouraging adyiCes from
outside points and n good local de-
mand the bulk Of lambs on sale moved
at prices that were anyway IUGl5c
up, and by some traders were quoted
rs much as 10000 higher, shorn
lambs reached n new high mark for
the season. two uads Of good stun on
the light order turning the trick Some
OF the same lambs that were good
enough to bring $3.50 Monday sold al
$3.50 yesterday. and prices paid for all
the offerings ranged largely at 50 10
$1,000, No wooled lambs showed mp
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. saGOGi0.oo;
lambs. shorn. heavy, fs9Odo.75; ewes.
Ghorn. s675GTs5,