The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
LIVE STOCK MARKET


Today Wk. ago
Cattle ........ 1900 5000
Hogs ........ 10000 $500
Sheep ......... $500 5000
CATTLE.-Hadt the good rain of
Saturday and Sunday been received
day or two earlier there is no ques-
ton we believe, but what the receipts
this week would not have been near as
heavy as they were the opening day,
when nearly $4,000 cattle were avail
able for sale. Most of that tremen-
dous run could not be stopped, owing
to the fact that arrangements had
been made for shipping, as not all
sections had been benefited by the
scattering rains heretofore. The APP
pearance of $4,000 cattle yesterday
naturally gave the buyers plenty of
opportunity of breaking the market
from tic high price basis of the pre-
vious week and as a result killing
steers broke SOC per cwt., while stock
err, feeders, butcher stuff, mixed cat
tie and Gamers declined 25c per cwt.
In some parts of Central and West
ern Missouri, they lack sufficient rain,
but of the most part the country has
been benefited materially and it is our
opinion that yesterday will be the
big day of the week in point of re-
ceipts, in fact, we hardly anticipate
another generous run of cattle like
that as long as the weather conditions
continue favorable.
Moderate receipts will prove a de-
cd 30, h. 10
ly being the cause of keeping many
habitat and thin cattle at home, but
with this being accomplished the pro-
portion of thin and habitat cattle
which have made up fully 80 per cent
of the receipts for the past several
weeks should be light enough that
with an increased call for cattle to
go back to the country, that the avail
able proportion of low price killing
cattle for packers will be moderate
enough to. elicit very strong COMPETE
ton from them.
HOGS.-A week ago today the
highest trade in the markets history
was again equalled when 500 hogs
blazed forth. At the time, however,
while the strictly good Northern corn
fed hogs realized those remarkable
prices, Southern hogs were undesira-
BILE sellers and found very poor sup
port from killers, and at that time
sold 81 to $1.50 per cwt. under the
best hogs. The present market while
it still shows an indifference toward
Southern quality hogs, yet they are
selling to much better advantage than
a week ago and are now bringing from
25c to 75c less than Northern hogs
At the same time, the market on good
Northern hogs shows a slight weak
ness, compared with week ago, best
top today being $19.85, showing a
general break of 15c per cwt. for the
week. 1t must not be construed that
all Southern hogs sell at that dis
count, for there are cases where strict
ly good quality, hard corn fed South
ern hogs will sell along with the best
natives, though the discount we refer
to will catch at least 80 per cent of
the Southern offerings.
The average weight shows much
lighter hogs coming to the market
than few months ago and naturally
good fat hogs, particularly those 200
pounds and up, are finding strongest
support of quality and flesh buyers,
and they are the kind that are realiz-
ing the top Of the market. There are
good many pigs coming and at times
find ready outlet, then again this
branch of the trade lacks snap what
ever, this of course, is depending to
considerable extent upon the vol
ume demand from the Eastern sourc-
es for the pigs and bacon hogs.
misunderstanding the fact that
the supply of lambs during the past
week has been generous, it is really
remarkable that the trade has not suf-
fered to a greater extent than it has.
The facts are, lambs are not more than
25c per cwt. lower for the week and
VIC have seen many time when a run
of equal proportion that we have had
the present period has brought very
shary decline. Notwithstanding, the
weakness on lambs and sheep trade
shows a uniformal steady basis. The
very choice lambs are realizing a top
of $1675 and fat sheep $12. The range
however between poor and best grades
still continues wide.
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