Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-14

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esunday
THIS morning for a "Wednesday. but for
tuhatell the demand was good so that
tht trade was In a healthy ana more sat
sellers standpoint buyers were out in
inc yards In good season In the morning
anu the buik OF the cattle changed hands
at an early hour
Beer steers sold freely at prices that
were steady to little stronger than yes
.eraey' Cows and heiters were fully
,eeaerS were steady and for that matter
! little change has taken place on the good
TO choice Grades thus far this week They
s snv ~ III, iset as high as they have been
any time. Yesterday some very choice
wyoming feeders sold at SS.6s and today
a FEEDER buyer paid $3.50 for fed cattle to
i az taken NJ back into the country and fin
lshed The medium grades OF stockcrs
and feeders are around 26c lower than
is sst week and are not moving very rap
Quotations on cattle: Good 10 choice
| cornted beeves, sS0OGS.40: fair TO good
eornted beeves s6500750; good TO choice
Sssrs "SS Sir % good good to choice cows
common TO fair cows, A0Oqs.oO; good TO
choice stockers and feeders. S.2bqS 10;
200; common 20 fair stockers and feed
ers, S.76M650: stock heifers S. s5fg5 rs,
stock cows. tt.50a550; stock calves, $4,000
aeO' veal calves FOOus.S0; bulls. stays,
HoGs--Reeeipts were liberal today.
about ia cars, or 1900 head. being re-
CONSIGNED direct 20 a packer from another
market The three days total n a0.72s
| head, being nearly 5000 short of last
week and almost 1000 short OF the same
Tho market opened dull, with the feel
ing among buyers generally steady. Ship
ping demand was not 30 good as on Tues
day, and the number OF hogs bought on
shipping and speculative account were q
| good deal smaller. Packers early bids
were somewhat better than yesterdays
Killer trade, that Is they were Just steady
with Tuesdays average market, and al
! though sellers were working for better
money packers refused 20 raise their
hands, so that when tho first hogs were
SOLD, they went on generally steady
basis. The market remained very dull nlI
me way through, and at times looked as
OF tho supply sold at prices that were
FULLY steady with yesterdays average
market, or shade higher than yester-
Bulk again landed at s6e5a6 Is. the biz.
string selling at $40. quite a sprinklintr
sold as high as 1915, the top for the dav.
| Trade Tor the week TO date shows "A de-
cline of about iQc. The market has been
extremely SLOW on every day. and mack
ers have mad pretty much their own way
throughQut the week, in spite OF tho fact
that sellers have fought hard FOR better
money, Yesterday was tho only day the
sYsn thsn 1T nae s9ounted to much. and
the coN of their iroves a nickel
sHEkP-With 1860 head of sheen and
lambs reported In this morning com
pared with l5S5S week ago anu tS1 n
year ago, sellers were confronted with
an unusual and peculiar situation on the
sheep market Trade opened in good sea
son with two or three cars OF lambs sell
ing at steady to strong figures and n
Few ewes and yearlings moving at prices
a shade higher than yesterday. but very
general came to a standstili with buyers
refusing TO even bid on great many
Of the offerings, ineiuding both aged
sheep and lambs. SO the bulk of today :
offerings met very poor demand and
when the packers did become interested
In what was unsold their bids were a flat
quarter lower than at the opening Late
in the forenoon most OF everything on
sale began to change hands on a basis
lbq25c lower On an average. As was the
case on Tuesday. the trade was more or
less uneven, making II very difficult for
sellers to do business. There was no i'm
portant change in the general quality OF
the offerings and the clearance was late
The early sales Included some fed west
ern lambs az $50 and some fed western
ewes at $59Oq6oo, but this was no cri-
terion from which to Judge the general
market, which was draggy with prices
lower.
The bearish influence was attributed
TO the big run at most all market points
and especially at Chicago and Buffalo, so
far for the week. The packer buyers
claimed the situation on the eastern
tinuance of the high schedule prices that
had prevailed on the local market OF late.
The situation In feeders remained pretty
much the same as on Tuesday and Mon
day. the receipts being light but the In
quiry good. Prices were about like yester-
day. Early transactions included some
Idaho feeding lambs at $500.
quotations on sheep and lambs; Lambs
good to choice, Ss.250S.45; lambs. fair tc
good S6.O01lS.25; lambs, heavy, S7.50qS.0O
lambs, feeders. H.e6qsO6; lambs. heavy
$l.5OqS.o0; lambs. feeders, S.65GpS0o
yearlings, light. t7.25Q1 80: yeariings
heavy $500: b; wethers. good to choice
. t6.O0dg6.40 wethers, fair 10 good, t5.75G600
ewes, good to choice. $1,000. 90; ewes. TAI
4; TO good s.. 2516.50.
HORSES-No material change ha.
, taken place IN horse prices during IT.,
. week, values for the most part remaining
about the same as week ago. AS con-
) pared with a year ago the trade Is hardly
80 good barring only the demand for GER
tain classes OF war horses which Is keep
ing prices up on that class, While TN
trade during the week has been a littli
slow a fairly good clearance has beer
: effected. The receipts Of mules have
; been light as has also the demand, owint
5 to the lack Of southern buyers