Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
RECEIPTS MUCH LARGER THAN
ANTICIPATED ~ TRADE
AND VALUES REcEpE.
SOME GRADES SELL IS
CENTS UNDER WEDNESDAY,
Big Crop Of Young Hogs in Country
and Lower Prices This Fall Are Pre-.
dicted-cattIe Not So Plentiful as on
Thursday Of Last Week and Market
IL Firm-Lamb Prices Lower.


| ferings than expected had depressing
/! effect today on the hog market.
/ Fresh pork will be cheaper few
weeks hence. The country is full OF
pigs and il is probable that they will
be sent to the shambles by the hun
dred thousand at light weights unless
corn happens to be cheap. Early in
! October the advance guard will show
! up at the market. when radical price
revision will occur
+; Fresh pork is high at present be-
+! cause such cuts are taken from light
hogs Of which few are reaching the
f! market. Hogs weighing over 2o0
pounds do not yield a popular weight
loin, which accounts for the fact that
under weights command 500 q SIS.
while big hogs sell from 100 down.
Hog marketing during the next twelve
months will show marked expansion
and owing to the lack of demand
for lard and coarse meats. growers will
consult then own interest by not put
ting on too much weight.
Cattle.
Cattle were not SO plentiful as at
the corresponding time last week.
Steer trade conditions are exactly
the reverse OF a week ago. With a mid
week run OF around 10000 head
sprightly market developed. Everybody
wanted a few cattle and wanted them
in the worst way. Other markets were
light, Kansas City reporting only 5000
At the six points there were but $1,000,
against $1,000 last week and 41,000
year ago.
Only a small package Of westerns
arrived and they were nearly all Cana
dians The run carried a little of eV-
ory,hing. including some good cattle.
Prime steers sold up to 1925. there
was string Of 10.O0@1o.25 sales and
much Of the stuff that had been on
corn sold at 800 $1,000.
Just how much higher the market
was Wednesday than on Monday was
q matte. or which few agreed. As was
the case on the slump last week, some
exaggeration was heard. Choice cattle,
which suffered little on the break last
week, show the short end Of the adj
vance, but the $50 q 1000 grades have
been marked up about as pyrotech-
nicaliy as they slumped. Most OF thcm
were so cents higher than late last
week. Under the 81 scent line the ad-
vance was less emphatic, but there was
a place to pun everything. In-oetween
grades show most OF the gain.
Everybody went down with the mar
ket last week and knew al labout it.
but the short run Wednesday altered
conditions. Statesmen who had all
kinds of cattle a week ago were short
on assortment Wednesday. There was
little llaggiing, however, as buyers uau
urgent orders and the crop went over
the scales early.
No speculation concerning the cause
Of supply curtailment is necessary. The
country resented the drubbing given
the market last week and refrained
from ordering cars: incidentally, the
little run has discredited the claim ad-
vanced by killers last week that peer
could not be sold and that coolers were
congested The aforesaid coolers needed
replenishmon1 and were still more in
need Wednesday. Beef is actually
finding outlet channels with some
celebrity.
Sheep.
Sheep held up in values but lamps
had tendency RI drag lower
The trade is being handicapped by
bad acting markets down east on the
dressed product which are keeping
packers In EeallsH HuthoI anu Su' 'aAi
ing shipping demand here from east
ern killers, but with SO big percent
age of Omahas receipts running TO
feeders and supplies light elsewhere
buyers are meeting strenuous opos,-
ton in their efforts to put prices near
or in line with normal trading basis
at this period of the year.
Feeder buyers continue to line the
alleys at markets to which they are
getting access to supplies. paying up
to SIS at Omaha Tuesday with reg
ularity for good feeding lambs.