Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-09
BULK Of HOGS
SELL ABOVE 50
MARKET GOES TO STILL HIGHER
LEVELS AS RECEIPTS ARE
cURTAlLED.
MIXED PACKERS STILL
HOLD FAvoRlTE PLACE
Cattle Market Steady, Arrivals satur-
day Being Barely Sufficient to Make
Market = Weakness in Sheep and
Lamb Division - Current Quotations
at Live Stock Centers.

Chicago. Oct. 9.-Hoss went to still
| higher levels today making the adj
| vance for the week one of the most
remarkable on record.
F, Bulk sold above IS, with mixed sorts
holding favor.
If scarcity of pigs and young hogs
at market CenterS recently is any
criterion the new crop must DE healthy
Sick pigs have been rare and even an
attractive premium has furnished no
Z incentive 20 growers to cut young stuff
loose.
F.! Sooner or later a run of light stuff
will be iuev table. however. october
invariably produces it at some stage.
usually abou. the time winter blows
its first blasi.
Meanwhile fresh meat trade Is
healthy and the accumulation in pack
ers' cellars is dwindling. If old stun
can be well worked off before the win
ter packing season begins it will be 10
the advantage of all concerned.
Eleven markets received $500 hog
Friday, or 100 less than last Friday.
and a year ago. and 800 less than
two wears ago. Total thus far this
week $4,000, or $4,000 less than same
period last week, $1,000 less than like
time last yea, and $4,000 less than cor
responding five days two years ago,
Total for 1915 TO date $4,000 900, or
20o1000 more than same period 1914
and $4,000 more than correspondents
time 1915.
Cattle.
The cattle market was steady, with
fresh arrivals barely sufficient to make
market.
What has happened this week has
revived confidence in the future of the
fat cattle market. Regardless of re-
strictions on the eastward movement
beef consumption approximates so
many tons weekly and the big packers
supply the bulk of it. Were 1t not
necessary to slaughter cattle in New
York TO furnish kosher beef for the
orthodox Jewish population of that
city, few bullocks would leave Chicago
on the hoof An impression Is gain
ing ground that too much stress is laid
on kosher trade as it takes compare
lively few cattle and Of these requires
only the fore quarter. While kosher
demand is undoubtedly a prop under
the market killers are disposed to ex-
aggerate Its Importance.
A gratifying phase of the trade this
week has been energetic buying or the
part Of packers and city butchers. The
"Wednesday furry wus dus to COM
petitions from these sources That is
Will continue is probable. All the mar
ket needs is stride and that il ought
to acquire with seasonabie weather.
There viii be little range beef the
rest Of the season and while run of
native grassers always shows up at the
approach OF winter packers show an
ability 10 handle . lnt Of cheap stuff.
Stability of eraser values at season
when that branch of the trade IS
usually in scmi-demoralized condition
has been r"assuring.
AT the close. choice to prime year
lings were quoted at 10000 1880 with
good 10 choice anywhere from s.25m
1000 Choice TO prime steers weighing
i 400 pounds and over We're on 1000
Ml0i 10 basis with handyweights in
about the same notch weight having
been more highly regarded than last
week a lot of short-fed stuff has sold