Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
OMAHA LIVE STOCK
Small Run Cattle Finds Prices
Lower Than a Week Ago;
Hogs Ten Cents Higher
Than on Thursday.

oahe days year ago. 52.3li $3.50 1868
Cattle-There were but 1900 cattle, or
~ cars, on sale this morning and trading
ABOUT steady with yesterday although
packers were buying very little on the
early rounds and much of the holdings
were cattle held over from yesterdays
mean close. As compared with a week
ago beef steers are soc q 800 lower. best
kinds Of westerns bringing from $4,000
HES, medium kinds anywhere from s12 90
@l45o, Butcher stock was very draggy
and 50c@l.b0 lower than week ago.
Stockers and feeders were steady with
very little on sale and anywhere from so
W75c lower than last week
Quotations on cattle: Choice to prime
beeves. sl7.5001S,4O; good to choice
sesyes: ls.oo@lT2S; fair to good beeves,
sls6o@l5.75; common to fair beeves,
slo.0o@13.oo: good to choice yearlngs,
$4,000 1900: fair to good yearlings, $l2. 90
@l5.S0; common to fair yearlings. $S.50G0
100; choice to prime grass steers. $3.50
@1776: fair to good grass beeves, $4,000
1880; common to fair grass beeves, $500
@ll.26; Mexican beeves, ss0001100; good
to choice heifers, ss.75@12OO: good to
choice cows. ss.0oQl1.50; fair to good
cows. s775@s75: common to fair cows,
S2507.25; prime feeders. s13.5O@15,50:
good to choice feeders. s10.75Ql3O0: fair
to good feeders, ss00@l025; common to
fair feeders. s7.o0@S.00: good to choice
stockers, s1o,00@11.s0: stock heifers, $725
9s76: stock cows, s6.5o@775; stock
calves. s7oO@11.oo; veal calves. 5000
1875; bulls. stays. ETC., ss.o0@S.50
Hogs-There were only 1900 hogs on
the market this morning Trade was very
slow, shippers being the first to make any
purchases. They bought few of the best
hogs at possibly Ice higher than yesterday,
but the most of their loads were secured
at prices not any more than steady and
possibly q trifle lower than yesterdays
close. Packers had not done any buying
to any great Sxtent UP to 1880. but were
bidding 10000 and In some cases Csc
$1s4061s,60, with top of 5000.
Sheep-There were so loads of sheep on
the market today estimated at 1928 head.
the total run of the week nearing the
record for the weeks supply on this mar
ket, receipts amounting to 196,425 head.
Today's early trade on fat lambs looked
fully steady with yesterday, one early
sale being reported at s174O. The feeder
market is steady at the weeks decline,
tn activity on the market this morning
making 1t appear perhaps a trifle stronger
than yesterday. In other words that the
decline for the week on best feeders Is
around $3.50 and common lambs are from
s2.00 $500 lower than last week, but after
reaching these levels on late Wednesday
and Thursdays market the movement is
much freer than 1t has been of late at
prices steady with this decline Good to
choice feeders are bringing from $4,000
1900. fair TO good from Sl2,OOQl5.OO, COM
non down to $1,000
Quotations on sheep: Lambs, good to
choice, $1675@1760; lambs, fair to good,
H400Q16.75; lamb feeders. $l3.75@l6.OO;
yearlings, good to choice. $l2.5O@ 1925;
yearlings fair to good. $1,000 % 1880;
yearling feeders, sl2.O0@1275; wether
feeders, $l1.75Q12.25; ewes, good to
choice. $s25@9.75; ewes. fair to good.
se00Qs25; eve feeders, sS.OOQ9oO.