Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15
Atlanta Live Stock
Corrected by w. h. White Jr.. of the White
prnxy iei..n

Corrected by w. h. White Jr.. of the Whits
Good TO choice steers, 800 70 300 lbs, So. 81
Good steers, 700 to 500 lbs. Sc. 2JQ to So. IS.
Medium to good steers, 100 to 500 lOs.' So 20
Good to choice beef COWS, $50 to $50 lbs.'
So 90 to SO. 90. - -
Medium to good cows. $50 to $50 IDs., $3.50
Good 10 choice heifers. 600 to 200. s4.50 to
The above represents the ruling price Of good
quality cattle. inferior grades and dairy types
selling lower. .r 20
Medium 70 good steers. $50 to $50 los.' So
Medium to good cows. ESQ to $50 lbs.. $500
to s.. 90.
Mixed common, SO % to s3.75.
Good fat oxen. $500 TO $500
Medium. oxen, 81. 90 to $500:
GoJd butcher bulls. IS. 10 to "a 90. an
PRIME hogs, 200 to $50 lbs, IS. 80 20 $9.VO'
Guoc hogs, 16O TO 200 lbs, IS. 20 to xS.9e
Light hogs. 1s5 to 100 lbs. 70 to So; 20.
Good pigs 90 TO 40 lbs. 81 90 to - oO.
Above quota lions apply to cornfed hogs Mast
and peanut fattened lower, owing 70 quarry
Cattle receipts light Market quiet: 60 s,ods
Hogs coming freely. Market steady to snaue
lower.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CBy Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 14.-HOgs: Receipts
Il. 900; Toe lower. Bulk $O.I5@ 10 10; heavy
s9.75G 10. 90: light $9.sO@1O.15; pigs $1,000
Ca Cattle: Receipts 81 900; steady; prime fed
steers S9.25d 10. 80; dressed beef steers 5 .Zog
0.OO southern steers $a 75Gs: so; cows "a Dug Oo
bulls s5.25a6'5O; calves SO .5O011.OO: $500
Sheep: Receipts 5000; steady. Lambs $a9'9 ~
d1O9O; yearlings SI.50@S.20; wethers $''<o
G7.S5; ewes $6.75GlT.35.
ST. LOCIs, Aug misunderstanding, H.
OOO; steady; pigs and lights, $7.I591O25; good
heavy, S10.1561O.50; bulk, $9.OO91O.25. -
Cattle-kecelpts, $500; steady; native peer
steers, $7.O0aiO.25; yearling steers and helf-
ers, $s.5OG1o.OO; cows. s5.5O@7,76; stoc6e do
So 30@ %: prime southern steers, $S.OOqe;OO;
COWS and heifers s4.50@9;OO; prime Wearing Tndg
'' SSecpIReecirts 1000; steady; lambs, 500
GIO.5O: slaughter ewes, $5.O0d1 %; bleatlng
ewes. $4,000 1000; yearlings, $6.0O@95O.
CHICAGO. Aug. 14.-Hogs-ReceIpts, $4,000;
steady; bulk. s9.sOd1O.5O; light. s9.SOa 1880;
mixed. $0GO6 1875; heavy, S9.45@1O.45; rough,
Cattle-Receipts. $4,000; steady: beeves.
81. OOd 1000; cows ami neifers, $4,000 9:S3;
stockers and feeders, s5.OOd7.s5; calves, 5000
Sheep-Receipts $4,000: veal; native, $3.50
also: western. s6.T567.so; ycarlings, $7.4OI
$50: lambs. S7.25d11.1o.
METAL MARKET
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE metal exchange
quotes lead firm 600. Spelter firm; spot East
st. Louis delivery S&.
At London lead 20 pounds los; spelter 40
pounds.
j.
NEW YORK, Au? 1.-THE market was firm
today under the lead of Liverpool to which
market ocean freight for September shipments
advanced on Saturday. There seems to have
been a rather thorough liquidation of specula-
tive contracts The crop reports of the day
werc OF continued dry weather in Texas and
0kl1homa. Some Improvement in the Atlantic
states but of considerable damage by boil
weevil in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
There has been n deterioration in the belt as
a whole since the government report of August
l.
TIMES-PICAYUNE REPORT
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 14.-The Times-Pic-
ayune herewith presents its correspondents re-
ports on the cotton crop of August 9TH.
The consensus of opinion is to the follow
Ing effect:
the districts from which they come, but there
can be no doubt that, taking the belt as
whole. distinct deterioration has occurred.
,. Complaints of boil weevil damage, actual
or prospective, are heard from many quarters
but no estimate Of the damage is possible at
present
3. The outcome will everywhere depend upon
the weather during the next few weeks and
especially upon the date of killing frost. Much
Of the crop is very late and premature
freeze would. therefore, be disastrous.
4. Some correspondents note a shortage of
labor, the railroads and the Industries having
taken hundreds of hands from the fields, but
the supply seems sufficient a rule.
3. Farmers appear disposed to sell freely
at prevailing prices, at least during the earlier
stages of the movement, but would probably re-
sist q sharp decline.