Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Total Fcpcipis .,.2O los
DISFOSlTlON-liEAD,

Cattle-As usual on Saturday. there was
nothing Of any consequence In the way
Of beef cattle on sale. and values were
nOmnally the same as on Friday. Receipts
for the week have been rather liberal. for
June. footing up around $4,000 head, or
only about 1000 less than for the week
previous.
Choice beeves, byth heavy and light, have
ruled active aud stronger nearly every day,
new top OF 1870 on heavy beoves and
a new top OF 1886 on yearlings being reg
stered On the other hand the medium
and common cattle OF all weights have
shown declining tendency on account OF
increased competition from western and
southern grass cattle. Outside OF the
strictly good 10 choice beeves there has
been decline In prices ranging from 25c
TO soc, and the market Is closing dull at
the decline. The break in values these
medium and half fat cattle is entirely sea
souable and similar conditions are reported
from outside maTkets
In cows and hefers It has been much the
same way. the best cornfed grades finding
free outlet al steady TO strong prices
and grassy and half fat cows showing all
Of a a5@h0c drop for the week Veal
calves have hold fully steady but bulls,
stays, etc, have been slow sellers through
out at unevenly lower prices.
Quotations on Cattle: Good to choice
beeyes. sI3.00Qi375 fair TO good beeves.
sl2.0Q@12.75; common TO fair beeves, $l050
Oils; good to choice yearlings, sl2.50@
1886; fair to good yearllngs *l1.75@l225;
common to fair yearlIngs. ss.75@1l.50;
good TO choice heifers, $lO2b@11.b0; good
TO choice cows, $9.7b9iO.76; fair to good
cows, ss.5009.b0; common to fair cows,
$500 $500; prime feeding steers, $1,000 q
1lO0; good TO choice feeders, s9.0O0 %
1000; fair to good feeders, $4,000 Q. 90; com.
mon to fair feeders. SLOO@S.Oo; good to
choice stoekers $500 1860: stock heifers,
ss.254l0.60; stocks cows, f,00@lO.00;
stock calves s9.50@ll.0O; veal calves. $1,000
G1A50; bulls, stays, ETC.. f.Oo9lo.bO.
HoGs-Hog receipts were Just about nor
NAL for the closing of the week. Some 1oS
cars, or 1900 head were reported In, bring
Ing the six days total up to 65.929 head.
This is 1900 larger than last week, but
is 1880 smaller than two weeks ago, and
falling off Of more than 5000 as COM
pared with the corresponding week OF last
year,
There were no overly large runs at any
Of the markets this morning, but big
carry over at Chicago, as result of yes
terday's mean close there, resulted In q
general weakening Of prices all around the
circuit this morning. Locally the trade
was anyway nickel to In most cases 10
10c lower. shippers were very moderate
buyers and the bulk OF the decent Satur-
day run was at the disposal OF packers.
most of whom called their purchases bploc
lower There was no great activity about
ths affair, but pretty good clearance was
made by 10 o'clock, only scattering loads
which packers were trying to buy at the
full decline being left al that time.
Bulk of the sales were made at $lb.10@
l5.40 Quality was hardly as good as yes
terday, at least top hogs were not so plen-
tiful. The hogs that sold at $3.50, the
days top, while good, were not 80 heavy
as yesterdays s15T0, Since the high spots
the middle of the week values hays dropped
at least dime, but they arc still gen
orally 15c higher than a week ago. The
good hogs of all weights show up better in
comparison with a week ago than the or
dinary kinds.