Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-13
LIVE STOCK MARKET
Cattle Score Big Advance for
for Week-Lambs Break
All Records-Hogs Forty
Up for the Week.


Cattie--The market as usual on Satrrday
was practically bare Of fresh supplies OF
cattle. there being nothing of any eonse-
quence on sale. For the week receipts have
been very moderate, In fact the lightest
with one exception for number of weeks
back on The other hand the receipts for
the month TO date are the largest that they
have been for over five years. The market
with lighter offerings has been steadily
working upward until at the close OF the
week prices are around b0q75c higher.
The advance has been largely on the me-
dium weight cattle and on yearlngs, while
choice heavy becves have not shown so
much improvement As compared with the
extreme low point some ten days ago
Yearlings as much as si.00nl,25 higher
and in some cases more than that
Cows and heifers have been gradually
working up and are around so cents higher
for the week,
stockers and feeders have been In light
supply and good demand all the week and
have sold very freely with the result that
the market at the close is little stronger.
Quotations on cattle; Good to choice
beeycs. si2O0qi3.O0; fair TO good beeves,
sti.001l200: common TO fair beeves, $3.50
9I1.00; good to choice heifers. slG.00mii.00:
good TO choice cows. s9.76Wl0.1b; fair to
good cows $s75Q0.75; common 10 fair cows.
ss.509s75: prime feeding steers, f9.7j@
1890; good TO choice feeders, s9.OO@l0.0O;
fair TO good, feeders $3.50 49.0O; common TO
fair feeders. S6.75@s.50: good TO choice
stockers, $500 $40 so; stock heifers. 1880
1926; stock cows. s7.OOmlO 90; stock calves
$1,000 1850; veal calves, $9.0OQl32b: beef
bulls. stays, etc. $S.OOqlOOO.
Hogs-In addition to the fresh receipts
offerings included ten or SO loads that were
held over from yesterday. and as shipper
outlet was only moderate packers had all
the hogs at their disposal that they could
use. The result was that while Chicago
opened strong and 10c higher the local mar
ket. which has been high compared with the
Windy City trade. was slow in opening. and
once started was not over &c higher as
general thing.
There was a great deal Of unevenness in
values, some sales being called right at I0c
higher, while others were no more than
strong to shade up. Late rounds were
slow and weak and many OF the later sales
when finally made were little II any better
than steady. II was pretty we'll along In
the day before decent clearance was fin
ally made The general quality today was
hardly as good as yesterday, big proper
tion of the offerings consisting Of mixed
hogs, and as packers were not overly eager
at any stage Of the game, plain mixed kinds
were slow sale, some Of them In fact never
getting so much as an offer until late in the
day.
The bulk OF the offerings sold at s15.70@
1900. with the best kinds on up to s16.16.
which comes within nickel Of equaling THE
record made last month. There was also
quite a sprinklinR on down below the bulk
The week opened with a sharp break, but
values reacted the following day, and mar
kets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
were the best seen here in several years. The
advance continued Friday and Saturday, but
the undertone was sluggish and closing
rounds were weaker both days. Today's
values are 40@60c higher than the close Of
last week and are big half dollar above
Monday the low day Of the week.
Representative sales;