Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-10
OMAHA LIVE STOCK
Sters Open Slow with Prices
from Steady to Ten Cents
Lower; Twenty to Forty
Gent Drop in Hogs.

Omaha. October .. 1918.
Receipts were: Cattle. Hogs Sheep.
official Monday ....1s,o63 4,416 1881
Official Tuesday ..1S,577 1887 27,O7o
Estimate Wednesday 900 $4,000
Three days this wks9,240 20,S53 92,7O1
Same days last weekas.16s 1851 1sO,s56
Same days 2 wk, ago.46, 00t 1886 141, 2O6
Same days wh. ago.4s,s75 2o,261 135,626
Same days year ago..36,66s 1f,465 81 $50
Cattle--Receipts were moderate, estima-
ted at 10000 head, making the run for
the three days $4,000 head. Beef steers
opened very slow and prices were any
where from steady to 10c lower Best
westerns were quotabe from s1450 to
s16 90. fair to good kinds from s12 to s14
and on down for common grades. There
was very little activity In the butcher
stock market Buyers only bought scatter
Ing lots on their early rounds, which
looked like the bulk OF the offerings
would sell A. little easier. Best grades were
selling from 50 so to sill so. medium grades
from $7.75 to 5000. Stockers and feeders
we're Toe to 15c lower and trading dull on
everything
Quotations on cattle: Choice to prime
beeyes. si7.6O@1s.00; good to choice
beeves. st6,Oo@17.25: fair to good beeves.
sl50Q1575; fair to goow beeves. s1350@
$13.50Qt5.75; fair to good beeves, s1O500
1900; fair to good yearlings. s12O0@15.5O;
common to fair yearlings. sS.50@11.OO:
choice to prime grass steers, s1450@1 1850;
fair to good grass beeves, s125O914.50;
common to fair grass beeves, ss.5001200;
Mexican beeves. s9.O0911.Oo: good to
choice heifers, ss,75912,oo good to choice
cows, $s.O06l2.Oo; fair to good cows.
ss.Oo99oO; common to fair cows, $4,000
$50; prime feeders, s1325915.50; good to
choice feeders, $1O.50Q13.OO: fair to good
feeders. $9.00@1O25; common to fair
feeders, s6,00@750; good to choice stock
ers. slO0001l.00; stock heifers, $1,000
S25 stock cows, s6.25Q75O; stock calves,
s6.50QlO.5O: veal calves. s7.00Ql3.50;
bulls. stays, etc, ss.009s76
Hogs--There was a good sized run Of
hogs here today, 1873 loads, estimated at
$500 head, making the total for the week
10000 head The market was again al
most wholly a packer market. 1t is a lit
tie difficult to make satisfactory compari-
sons with yesterdays uneven market and
everything indicates that today's market
would be just as uneven. The market
opened with hogs selling generally at
s1I60@17.70 with a few loads above this
to top Of $500. The market gradually
grew weaker until the bulk stood at $3.50
OHIO, prices that are 20940 lower than
yesterdays early market.
Sheep--Receipts today amounted to 1872
cars estimated at $4,000 head. The mar
ket was slow in getting under way but
had every appearance Of being fully as
strong as yesterday Yesterdays top on
fat lambs was $3.50 and on feeders
sl4.25. The general market IL quotably
steady TO stronger.
Quotations on sheep and lambs: Lambs,
good to choice, s15,O0@15,5o; lambs, fair
to good sl4.0O@1&OO; lamb feeders,
$l0.O0@1425; yearlings, good to choice.
$11OO@1I50; yearlings. fair to good,
s1O.OO@1lOO; yearling feeders. 10000
100; wethers. fat, s9.0o911.25: wethers.
feeders, $11.75Q1225; ewes. good to
choice, sSOO@s75; ewes, fair to good.
$7.O0@S.O0; eve feeders, s7.00QS.00.