Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-05-27
iii STOCK PRICES
AT SOUTH OMAHA
Cattle Market Steady to Ten
Gems Higher.
HOGS AVERAGE FIVE TO TEN UP

Lambs Make From Ten 70 Fifteen.
Cent Advance, Reaching New High
Mark For the esason-No Aged
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
mt dium and lightweight beeves. De
Maud was vigorous from both local
packers and shippers. and trading was
lively from start to finish, the general
market ruling strong to q dime higher
than last week. Tops were yearlings
and sold at $500. the best Of the
heavy beeves selling up to $3.50. 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 heifers sell up
around $500 and above and the bulk
of the butcher and beef stock sells
around $6.26070O. 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 $7.OO@7.50.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
yearlings. $S.4O@S.00; good to choice
corn-fed beeves. $8.256s.65; fair to
good corn-fed beeves. 3S00@8.25;
common to fair corn-fed beeves. $3.50
@S.00: good to choice heifers. $1,000
500; good to choice COWS. $6s00760;
fair to good cows. 35.75@6.s0; COM
mon to fair cows, $3.7505.75: good to
choice stockers and feeders, $500
7.S5; fair to good stockers and feed
ers. 37.00@7.60: common to fair stock
ers and feeders. $6.0O07.0o; stock
heifers. $e.o0@7.0o: stock cows. $5.75
CTS: stock calves. $6.5o0s.50; veal
calves. $s.oo@1o.75: fat bulls. stays.
ETC., 355007.25: stock bulls. 1907.
The supply of hogs yesterday was
about $500 head. A strengthening in
values at other points allowed the To-
cal trade to recover al Of Mondays
decline. Shipper purchases were no
more than nickel higher. being made
largely around $7.35. or little less.
but packers opened . little better than
that. and when they started out to
make their purchases 1t was at figures
that were right ct 6010c higher.
Sheep and lamb receipts yesterday
amounted to 2.700 head. Under the In.
duence Of encouraging advices from
outside points and good local de-
mand the bulk Of lambs on sale moved
1t prices that were anyway IO@15c
up, and by some traders were quoted
% much as 100000 higher. Shorn
lambs reached new high mark for
the season, two loads 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 at
$3.50 yesterday. and prices paid for all
the offerings ranged largely at 1910
$1,000. No wooded lambs showed up
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, $9.60@10.00;
lambs. shorn, heavy. 50. so@s.75: ewes.
shorn, $67507.75.