Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
EARLY ADVANCE DUE TO DE
MAND FROM SPECTATORS
AND SMALL PACKERS,
/ BENEFlClALE EFFECT
SOON WEARS OFF
Cattle Not over-Pentifui, Especially
Choice Kinds, and Strong Market
Results-No Urgent Call For Sheep
and Lambs-Review Of Market Con-
ditions.

! today, but the effects soon wore OIL.
Receipts of hogs at Chicago for the
week totaled $1,000, an increase Of 10,
/ AGO compared With the previous week, a
decrease of 1920 compared with the
same week last year, and 1880 COM
/ pared with corresponding week two
! years ago.
! Average weight of hogs at Chicago
for the week was estimated at 2O4
pounds, the lightest since the first week
! of october, 1911, and five pounds lighter
than the lightest week in 1914, or ten
! pounds lighter than the previous week
twenty-siX pounds lighter than the
same week a year ago and six pounds
lighter than the corresponding week
two years ago.
Top hogs at Chicago for the week
reached SS.921e, the highest since Oct.
8, 1914, when best made $9.05, against
SS.75 the preceding week, Ss40 the same
week last year and ss.75 the CORE
spending week two years ago. Average
price figured $3.50. the highest since the
middle of last October. so cents higher
than the previous week, IS cents higher
than a year ago, and 20 cents higher
than two years ago.
Cattle.
Cattle were not overplentiful espe
cially choicer grade, and the market
was strong.
Largest receipts Of the year totaling
1858 at Chicago and $4,000 at the six
markets. was the logical excuse for the
price hammering the past week. Elk
cess run was seasonable since It is
time of year when many pasture own
ers begin to liquidate and frosts Of
late have started the stuff off of grass.
Cashing it in big volume, however. is
not good policy. Everything coming
into Chicago must go for immediate
slaughter and that has meant that
thousands Of light grass stesrs which
should have been fed for beef crop
later on went into the cannertes and
into the chill rooms, there to be frozen
for future trade.
VIVA, will follow this weeks bad
market is conjectural. but ono good
guess is that no good will come out Of
the situation the week ahead II the
country continues the rush to un-
load cattle out Of future. There is
nothing wrong with the beef trade or
at least, no complaint Of bad condi-
tions comes from packers. but there
can not consistently be good market
cattle as long as the receipts of such
grades continue Of heavy volume.
Course of prices when the grass
cattle run is pretty well in can best
be surmised when it is taken into con-
sideration that far fewer cattle have
gone onto corn feed this season in
nearby territory than was the case a
year ago. A scarcity of good beef in
the early winter months is due. Range
runs will begin to taper down within
the next few weeks altho for three
weeks at least some generous supplies
are in sight. Holding back a lot Of the
decently bred steers now on grass
would seem good policy. There is
world of rough feed TO carry them and
given some corn with 1t they will make
good gains at reasonably cheap prices.
and should when marketed after the
rush of grass-fed stuff is over give
a good account Of themselves. Follow
ing this policy as @Sa!:S: sacrificing
stuff now at terrifcally lower rates.
commends itself to the conservative
operator.
There was no urgent call for sheep
or lambs.
Market prospects for weeks ahead
are too bright to warrant premature
shipping of habitat stock. A number
of loads of fed" western lambs In
really no better than feeder flesh, have
been received here this week that
could have been advantageously re-
tanned in the country and made good.
Some of this stuff has sold down to
$3.50 q $50, while the one deck of really
prime fed western lambs to arrive
made SO on Wednesday. A good many
western lambs are in the hands of in
experienced feeders, some of whom
apparently labor under the delusion
that thin lambs after being run three
or four weeks on pasture and utilized
IN cleaning up the weeds on the farm.
are fat and would be highly priced
by killers. While there is little danger
of much such stock appearing before
a bad storm hits it, the sacrifice OF
anything of the class should be avoided.
If well conditioned and properly dis
tributed the trade believes the coming
seasons supply of granted sheep and
lambs will make good profits for the
feeders. despite the record cost Of the
stock when laid in.