Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
VALUES GENERALLY 10 TO x
CENTS ABOVE SATURDAYS
AVERAGE.
LIGHT PoRkEKs cLIMe.
TO NEW 1918 RECORD
Sell Up to SIG. With Butchers Within
10 Cents Of That Figure-Good Beef
steers Hold Steady on Light Run
Others are Slow to Lower-Sheep and
Native Lambs Steady.


tinued their upward climb today
prices showing gains Of from 10 to e
! cents, with light hogs selling up to $40
| Good butcher stock sold within 10
cents of this record. Other grades
were slow, but generally 10 to Is cents
above Saturdays average.
| Besides being large in point of num-
| bers the average weight at present is
| the heaviest in three years, or since
August 1915. The estimated average
| last week was PA pounds, against 24S
| pounds the previous week, 232 pounds
year ago. 23l pounds two years ago
| go pounds three years ago and PAS
! pounds four years ago.
Chicago's top price for hogs last
week at slS.S5 was the highest since
| the second week of last October, when
the top at 1856 was within So cents
of the record established last August,
when 500 was paid in Chicago. A year
ago the top was s15.S5. two years ago
5000 and three years ago only $50.
Last weeks average price at $3.50
was so cents above the previous week,
s3.o5 higher than year ago. $685.
higher than two Years ago, over 81
higher than the corresponding week Of
1911 and sS.S5 higher than the eight
year average OF the corresponding week
since 1909.
Practically half of the $1,000 COM
bined increase in receipts at eleven
markets compared with year ago
was scredited TO Chicago. The com
bined total at the eleven points at $780,
600 was $4,000 larger than the ten
year average for the corresponding
week since 1907.
For 1918 to date the eleven markets
received lS,19l,oG or 2.075,09 more
than the same period a year ago and
4a11lUU more than TWO years ago, wnen
arrivals were second largest on record
for the corresponding period. Receipts
thus far this year at the eleven points
are 3;aO9, 600 larger than the ten-year
average since 1907, standing s.s43, 900
larger than the same period OF 1910,
when the grand total at l1,24s,oo was
the smallest in over twenty-five years.
q At the leading markets last week.
each day the average top showed an
increase over the preceding day.
Cattle.
Good beef steers were scarce today
and the market was steady. Other
grades. however, were slow TO lower,
and calves were off % cents.
The market last week was very I'M
even and the range of prices between
the top AMI bottom grades widened
considerable Zeal top classes do not
show the full advance for the week,
they belong not over, p cents higher.
while most OF tie stock selling around
Sf.0odlS.0o look 25d5n cents higher,
while the Gait, selling around $500 a
l7.00have change. little. Below the
sis line the ", akness was noted. Most
q the fair 10 medium classes selling
arcund s1410fr1s 90 show ESQ 80 cents
decline, while tho common light grades
rave declined mostly 50G15 cents, and
In some instances show as much as
81 decline from the finish Of the pre-
ceding week.
new record was established when
fo,-ty head Of illinois fed steers aver
aging I,241 pei nds sold at $3.50, be-
Ing 20 cents higher than the top Of
The previous week and 30 cents higher
than the record level previous to this
wear.
Buyers claim that the cattle now
So ling arounJ sl7.00diS00 are rela-
lively the highest on the market.
When the Pressing percentage is
takn into CONSIDERATION, the real top
grades look cheap compared with the
lower priced stock. General quality
last week was rather poor which
caused buyers 70 be keen competitors
fol- anything wish qualit' and weight
| Lightweight eEass cattle were plenti-
tGl and a drug on the market,
! Despite the fact that best beeves
sold in Chicago at new record prices
| or this nlarhet the top at $3.50 cut
! little figure with the general price,
which was around $500. standing
! slightly lower than the record week
! average of June Is of this year. when
! the proportion of good TO choice fin
| ished beeves was much larger. The
! top that week was SIS and the general
| average $685..
| Last weeks average price was Gee.
| ond highe-. on record. standing $3.50
higher than corresponding week yeal
ago. when it was highest on record VI
10 that time at s12.7O Last weeks
average at 1920 was sT.15 higher
| tI!du wv SetiS 1So anu So-ip illSiSl
than seven years ago, standing $40
higher than rie seven year average
of corresponding week since 1910
Receipts for the week totaled 1880
| against 63,466 the week previous. 40
| 277 a year ago, and 4e,0ss two years
ago.
Sheep.
Sheep and native lambs had q
steady tone today. with shorn range
lambs tending upward.
Native ewes late sold up to s13
with plain to fair grades around s11 q
II and oils down around IS and ever
lower. A few yearfng wethers late
sold at s16 Bulk SOLD mostly around
$50 $50, with common grades down tc
IS and lower.
Receipts at Chicago for last week to.
tailed 1880, against 1905 the previous
week, $500 a year ago and S9,433 two
years ago.
The liberal number Of good to Choice
western sheep here as against practi.
cally nothing the previous week
forced the general average price Of
sheep much higher than the previous
week. when the supply of aged stool
was largely fair to good native ewes
Last weeks average price Of sheep a
$3.50 was $3.50 higher than yea
ago, nearly so higher than seven year
ago and 1915 above the seven yea
average for corresponding week snic,
1910.