Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-16
OFFERINGS SELL UNCHANGED TO
HIGHER BECAUSE OF SCAN. i
TiNEss OF RECEIPTS.
ARRIVALS SCARCE At
ALL MARKET cENTERs
Cattle Quoted as Steady, With Little
Doins-BuIk Of Sheep and Lambs
Consigned Direct to kiiiers-Review
Of Market Conditions - Current
Prices

chicago, SEPT. e.-L!SitHSs VI SUP
plies at all of the principal trading
points today caused hog prices 10
harden.
Eleven markets received $500 hogs
Friday. or 200 more than last Friday.
1900 more than a year ago. and l.lo0
more than two years ago. Total thus
rar this week SsS.O00. or $4,000 more
than same period last week. 10000
more than like time last year, and So
900 more than corresponding five days
two years ago. Total for 1916 to date,
20. 500, 900, or 1850 0 more than same
period 1915, and 4.4S3,000 more than
corresponding time 1914.
Cattle.
Cattle quotations were almost nom
inal.
Recovery of early week declines evl-
derces a more stable condition in the
market fer all grades of steers Wheh IL
is considered thai this weeks supply
has been among the largest Of the year.
the free selling at higher prices indi-
Gates a liberal movement of beef from
coolers. Much of the lower grade beer
is gclNS IulO liz o'N
parent now thai killers can use a lot OF
this stuff to good advantage Their Tor
eign orders alone should require a Dig
quota of it.
Total run in five days this week STOOD
51.400 against S2.9o2 a week aso n So
145 a year ago, while shipments nave
increased 1000 over a week ago. 'Much
CO the beef which contested eastern dis
tributing centers following the settle
ment of the railway strike scare mas
since becn moved out Of the way
and there is belief now that the market
can absorb seasonable heavy supplies OF
grass and short fed beef TO good ad
vantage without making serious inroads
on the present values
Western rangers have run in fairly
liberal volume this week and are due TO
come more freely a week ahead, but the
strong prices which packers have PAID
for range beef in the past three days
evidences urgent need for them and a
moderate supply of natives OF kino
which come in competition with west
erns should o meet bad action in the
Immediate future trade.
Yearlings Of fat grade ave had good
cN.Boh III iSNSlAS Aos -
break they suffered early in the week.
altho the palmer grade light yearlings
are stir a few points under a week
ago. 1t is mainly an sS-5eG9.4o trade
for yearlinss of grass and some corn,
and the well-bred corn-fstted stuff has
taken ss.65vlo.2a this week. the choice
yearlings clearing up TO slo.50I 1865
Choice iong-fed heavy steers which
were here in big numbers on Monday
have since dwindled to small supply
and price recovery has resulted. The
weeks trade has witnessed bulk of
these selling at s10.50d1o.S5 and a few
around s1l.o0a11.10, one outstanding
quality drove making S11.e5 o Mon
day..but classes such as, took sll.00 in
midweek could not have come within
1592o cents OF the price on Monday.
Sheep.
Most Of the sheep and lambs had
been consigned to killers direct.
While the fat lamb market is clos
ing the week in slumpy condition and
at declines ranging from 25 cents on
best westerns up to so cents on the bulk
of tine natives from a week ago. under
the influence of a material expansion in
the marketing on recent days and pros
pective good runs from the west for the
next few weeks, the weeks trade, as a
whole, has been highly satisfactory to
sellers. Advances scored Monday and
Tuesday carried prices to new record
levels for September, with the best
range lambs touching $11.40 on Mon
! day and natives topping at S1l.3o on
the succeeding session and most OF the
! good fat lambs selling upward from $ll
on these two sessions. Some midweek
| selling was about as high. but rather
sharp declines hay been effected since,
ranging from 80 cents on the best west
ems up to 60@75 cents on many natives
from Tnesday,S high SnOt.