Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-29
Total receipts ....... 10
DISPOSITION-HEAD,


Cattle-Receipts were Insignificant today
there not being enough in sight to make
market. but for the week receipts have beer
very large. footing up total OF b2.!ot
head with the exception of last week. this
Is tho heaviest run OF the year, and pros
poets are good for another large run the
coming week This Is the heavy shipping
season for range cattle and a great many
Of tho cattle coming forward are on the
stocker and feeder order. as usual at this
time.
The demand for killing cattle, that Is
beef steers, cows and heifers has been very
good and the market In satisfactory condi-
ton up until the latter part OF the week
when the continued heavy receipts caused q
gradual easing off. Good to choice year
lngs were In especially active demand, sell
ing up to S11 90, the highest In the history oil
the market. other kinds Of cornfeds have
eased off and are now 15Q2bc lower than
last week. Grass beef has also eased on
closing 2bc lower. Cows and heifers are
anywhere from steady to as much as lOQ
i6o lower on some kinds
Suckers and feeders poured Into the yards
at a rapid rate. while the high price oil
corn caused a noticeable decrease In the de-
mand, to such an extent that cattle began
accommodating, especially in the hands OF
spectators early In the week. This caused
a steady weakening In the market until at
the close prices are 25QS6c lower than last
weeks close.
Quotations on Cattle: Good to choice
beeves. slo0o0l11o; fair to good beeves.
;s.6oQlo.Oo; common to fair beeves. $3.50
086o; fancy heavy srassers. S7bQs16i
good to choice grass beeves. s76b@s76;
fair to choice grass beeves, $67b4I6b;
common to fair grass beeves, S600Q61b;
good to choice heifers. $6.7b07.2b: good TO
choice cows, 3s.4o@675; fair to good cows.
,6.Ts0s26; common to fair cows. sA25@
5.75; good to choice feeders s7.b04S1b;
fair to good feeders, 3s.5o9715; common
to fair feeders. 357bQ660; good to choice
stockeEa. 3Z5o9s1b; stock heifers, se,26@
7.2B: stock cows, ss.a5QS.2b; stock calves
t6.00@S.00: veal calves, $S,0oQlOO0; beef
bulls. stays, etc, $685. 6.2b.
Hogs--Receipts Of hogs were by q few
head the lightest OF any day this week,
estimates calling for sixty-six cars, or 400
head, which Ia twenty-seyen head smaller
than Mondays run. The weeks total 10
the heaviest since eight weeks ago. receipts
having been $3.50 head. which 10 10000
larger than last week. over twice as large
as two weeks ago and nearly three times
as heavy as for the corresponding week Of
last year,
The market was somewhat uneven, but
as general thing was mostly b@i0c high
er. Chicago wired a weaker outlook early.
and one of the local packers got a few
hogs on the strength Of this that were no
more than steady to &c higher. As gem
eral thing. however. the trade opened fully
&c higher, and by the time the bulk Of the
hogs sold was 691oc higher.
Bulk of the sales was made at ss70@
ss5. Best hogs here sold at ss.s5. and
while this la nickel lower than yesterdays
top on paper. the actual sales were anyway
30 higher, there being nothing as good as
yesterday's 5000 load here. Compared
with last weeks close, today's market Is
fully l04l5c lower. Mondays dime break
was not quite made up In the advances of
the next two days and less than half of the
20o break that was enforced Thursday and
Friday was recovered this morning.
Representative salesi