Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06
Atlanta Live Stock

Corrected by w. H. White, Jr., Of the White
Provision Coz
GOOd to choice steers, 500 to 300 lbs. $500 to
Good steers 700 to 500 lbs. $3.50 to 1925.
Medium to good steers, 100 to 500 lbs.' $500
to $3.50. e..
Good to choice heifers. 600 to 200 lbs. $500
Medium to good cows. $50 to $50 lbs, $3.50
to $500.
Good to choice heifers. 600 to 700 lbs. $3.50
to $500.
quality cattle. Inferior, grades and dairy
types selling lower
Medium to good steers. 700 to $50 lbs, 5000
to $780, .-.
Medium to good cows. $50 to $50 lbs., $3.50
to $3.50.
Mixed common. 1915 to s4.7s.
Good fat oxen, $500 to $780,
Medium oxen, $500 to $3.50.
Good butcher bulls, $4.2s to $5,25.
Prime hogs, leo to 2UO lbs, $S.I5 to $3.50.
Good butchers, 40 to 100 lbs, 1925 to $3.50.
Good butcher pigs, 100 10 lao lbs. $500 TO
$S.25
Light pigs, so to 100 lbs, $3.50 to $500.
Above quotations apply to corn fed hogs.
Mast and peanut fattened lower, owing 10
quality.
Only few choice cattle coming. Market cor
tinues strong on better grades. supply NOT
ske fq9a to s9 e Sree Tse
ent supply running mostly to light yearhng
stuff. Mixed and common butcher STUFF on
this market has ruled steady and prices nave
held up on account Of scarcity In recelpts In
fleshy STUFF.
In some sections proper care is not OeIns
used in dipping before shipping and as re.
suit cattle are being held in quarantine and
required to be dipped after arrival before being
sold.
Hogs receipts light. market steady.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
(By Associated Press.)
Ii, oo0, lower; bulk of sales, Ss.i0@ So; heavy,
$o;25@9 $40; light, $eOO@ 1880; pigs, $s.6og
800.
Cattle-Receipts, 1900. steady; prime fed
steers. $1O.4O@ 1880; dressed beef steers, $500
lS2S southern steers SO 81 COWS
Da hfsfeF calves 't ssSo
, HOO.
Sheep-Receipts 5000, strong; lambs, s95o@
ll;75; yearlngs, $1,000 1925; wethers, $72o@
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-Hogs--Receipts, 10, OOO.
lower pigs and lights; $7oog9.45; good heavy
Cattle-Receipts. $780, lower; native beet
steers, $7.5O@10.50; yearllng steers and heit-
ers, Ss.5Od 1905 cows, $5.sO@s.5O; stockers,
0.05; prime yearling steers and heifers. $s.75@
1925; cows and heifet:, S5.00@S.00; prime
southern steers, s9.Ooq9.50' native calves $500
sheep-Receipts $500. higher; wethers. 500
as.50: clipped ewes, $6.5O@7.I5; clipped lambs.
$S50M Ops; spring lambs, $10.O0G11.55.
CHICAGO, June 5.-Hogs-Recepts, 10000,
slow; bulk of sales S9;4O@9.6o; light, $s; SIC 90
rough piSS $oi0as's5; pigs $e.soGS.eO
Cattle-Receipts, 10000, steady; native beef
steers, $S.OOd11. O5; stockers and feeders. $6.00
@9.00; cows and heifers, $3.75G9.6o; calves,
Sheep-Receipts. $1,000, steady: wethers. 500
@S;25; lambs, s7.75d1O.3o; springs $s5Og
11.25.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, June 5.-Raw sugar steady, CEN
trifugal, 6 SO: moasses, SO: refined steady
cut loaf, $50: crushed, s.65; mould A, S.15;
cubes, SIS; xxx powdered, $50; powdered,
c ;IGt ar 'a A. 7.55 No. l. 7.5o.
Sugar futures opened quiet and at noon prices
showed little change.
The list declined later trade selling in
duced by the easier ruling in the spot market.
The closing easy and unchanged TO points
lower. Sales 900 tons.
KANSAS CITY, BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, June 5-Butter-Creamery,
29c: firsts, . &c seconds, 25c; packing, 22Hc.
Eggs-Firsts, 21hc.
JOHN F. CLARK & CO.'S COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS June 1.-The market opened
2 to 4 points higher and showed healthier tone
in advance Of 1858 for July and ,2.63 for
October There has been a great deal of llo-
spell of last week and good sized short in
tcrest has been built up The July contracts
sold by outsiders drifted mostly into The hands
of strong spot interests which liable to lie
mand the cotton. The finn resistance of. spot
holders to decline governed the work Of the
bear forces right along. One bearish feature Is
gust which does not seem justified, as bulish
facts strongest in the old crop situa ton.
The Liverpool stock of American cotton is now
9T4 900 bales less than last year.
The interna tional press contains further peqce
predictions, which, together with an unfayora-
bic change in the weather over Sunday helped
the bullish feeling and advanced in the market
The government in its last report said CROP
small in north Texas and grass is getting tron-
blesome Weeyil reports getting numerous
from the central states and Alabama. For this
reason continued dry weather would be prefer
able. - - = p.
General rains came over Sunday on north
west Texas, Oklahoma, western Arkansas ana
the map shows rainstorm coming on the north
western quarter of the belt liable TO extend
over the central states during the next two
days, followed by cooler weather; generally fair
weather is indicated for the Atlantics except
probably some showers in the coast districts.
Montgomery, Ala, reports on the crop:
Quite an Improvement in the crop since the
late No actual damage of weevil yet rs
squares still scarce, nut weeyil reports in
crease daily and there is serious apprehension
over the state. We fear that the steps taken
to fight the pest inadequate" p
In the coming acreage report on July giving
the acreage for this year; comparison will BE
Washington. Saturday, which says acreage on
July l. 1915, was 30. 1O7 900 acres against their
original guess Of 81, 535, 600.
Private advices from Texas say that about
300 900 acres in extreme south and southwest
Texas have been abandoned for cotton owing TO
persistent drouth. No change in the spot sit
uaton. Offerings small, full prices asked.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
(By Associated Pressl
CHICAGO, June 5-Butter unchanged.
Eggs-ReCeipts. &c. 62 cases. unchanged.
Potatoes higher. Old receipts, 30 cars; Michi-
gan, Wisconsin. Minnesota and Dakota whites,
81 GOAL 10; Minnesota and Dakota ohios, coca
81 90; new receipts 60 cars. Texas, Louisiana
and Alabamas. sacked triumprs, S1.5Od LEO.
Poultry-Alive, lower; fowls 1sd1s1ac.
WASHINGTON. June 3.-The follow