Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
FALLING OFF IN RECEIPTS couN-
TERBALANcED BY sLoWNEss
OF SHIPPING CALLS.
STALE SUPPLY FROM
WEDNESDAY ALSO FACTOR
Market Unsettled, Some Grades Selling
Cents Higher and Some Gents
Under Wednesdays LeveIs-Wet
Weather Handicaps Sellers Of Cattle
Enormous Supplies Come In.

/ Chicago. Nov. 23-FallinS off in the
number ot arrivals of hogs today was
counter5alsnced by the slowness OF
shipping calls and by large leftover
$ supply.
Receipts for the first half of the
week total about l55.lG0 head. being
. 100 less than same days last week.
Is, 400 more than a year ago and I2,'oo
more than corresponding period two
years ago.
Eleven markets received 15S,500 hogs
Wednesday, or 1880 less than last
Wednesday, $500 more than year
ago and 4S.400 more than two years
ago, when two eastern markets were
quarantined. Total the first half OF
this week 4Sl 1000, or $1,000 less than
same period last week, 4l.00o more
! than like time last year and 10000
more than corresponding three days
{ two years ago. Total for 1916 20 date
e6,149,000. or S,643,08o more than same
period 1915 and 100000 more than
corresponding time 1914.
Cattle.
Wet weather tended to handicap SELL
ers OF cattle.
The country is cutting loose cattle
with almost reckless abandon. because
Ct high feed cost, and big quota OF
the receipts in recent days were steers
that would have been fed at least twot
to three months longer were corn dowDa
to a normal price.
Cashing of the fair doing steers in
premature condition is being deplored
in the trade since there is every lndl-
cation that beef demand two TO three
months ahead will hold quite as good
as now and weight gains such cattle
could make should offset the cost OF
feed Beef is bound 20 be merchan--
dlsed on a profitable basis just so long
as the country undergoes no violent
commercial and industrial changes and
they are not due while Europe Is at
war Killers are simply laying in
record volume of beef at relatively
cheap cost, which will make them big
profits later on, but which were II held
on the hoofs, in the country and fed
out would doubtless put part OF the
profit in feeders hands.
The best evidence OF stability in the
demand situation is the eagerness OF
killers TO get the crop at the prices
now prevailing. Finding place to
put it once the crop is slaughtered is
Il is the congestion in slaughter beds
wrere labor scarcity is g serious fac
tor that is apparently proving their
| greatest source OF worry.
| While a big proportion of the sup
plies were in sellers pens at an early
/ hour. few aside from 1000 and higher
/ priced kinds were cashed prior 10 noon,
| and the afternoon market on rank and
/ file of the crop was weak one on
basis Of declines noted, while at late
hour a big lot OF stuff was still be-
ing worked over and there was GER
,aIrty of several thousand cattle go
Jig without buyers. ..
Sheep.
Demand for feeders gave strength to
the whole market for sheep and lambs.
Altho the So lamb was nominally
quotable Tuesday, 1t remained for SELL
ers TO actually bring it into circulation
Wednesday for the first time since
early summer A city butcher bought
load of finished assorted I4-pound
i natives from Michigan at 1900 for the
irew record for this class and packers
stopped at 1876 in this division. They
secured most Of the fair to strictly
good natives at 11.56111.73, "hlle
some sold at 100Om11.0o which few
| buyers wanted, and those around ll.29
needed hard sorting to make them de-
| sirable for most purposes. Culls
usually cleared at 9.0G69.50.
Chicago Live STOCK.
! Chicago. Nov. 23-Ca ttle-Estimated
| receipts for today, 10000; market easy.
I Eat;va beef steers s50612.05
! western steers 6.60010.15
S,ocrers and feeders 4.so@ $40
Cows AND he,fers 1850 $50
Cs,ves s.oo@1s. 90
! uoes-Estimated receipts for today.