The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-03
SWINE MARKET IS
; bu0yANT;SHIPPERS
HOPE HIGH PRICES
BY WILLIAM SANBORN,

The fact that the hog markets OF
the cuntry took an upward swing last
week. and were described as buoyant
on Saturday, has had a cheering effect
on the farm population, who are hope
full of still higher price levels. Corn
and oats have also ruled higher than
in some weeks, and this despite the
threatened coal tie up, the unsettled
conditions in the steel districts and
strikes pending in various trades all
over the map.
The latest proposed strike affects
milk distribution in the east. Milk.
wagon drivers have told their New
York bosses that nothing less than $50
will go in future and the dairymen are
trying to compromise in order to pre-.
vent a walkout by more than 5000
milk handlers.
The hog markets opened strong at
Chicago on Friday last. and kept ad-
vancing moderately all day. Fridays
average level at 1882 was 100 high
er than the average on the low day =
week previous and the top was s14.20.
All markets again took an upward
swing at the opening on Saturday, and
was excited at the close with sales
ranging from csc to SOC over Fridays
prices at Chicago. the top on light
butchers being $146O.
indianapolis went Chicago one bet
ter. for there we're general sales made
Of good medium weights at $14.50. and
2 top Of STATS was scored on several
lots. Compared with 1925 for top on
all weights on Saturday, October %.
this shows an advance in tops Of $50
during the week ending Saturday,
Nov. I.
Shippers Bid Prices Up.
The demand at INDIANAPOLIS was
greater than the supply on Friday and
Saturday. as to hogs. but not as to
cattle. The packers are held up by
strikes and cattle and veals were in
heavier receipt than expected. The
sharp advances on the first of the
week were all wiped out on cattle
from Thursday on, but shippers clean
ed out all the hogs at advancing
prices, as noted.
The conditions at Chicago were
much much the same. Shippers were
active buyers of hogs on both Friday
and Saturday and receipts were linn
tied. Average weight Of hogs was
the lightest since June.
ne very CNOlCHSl SItld6 VI SdltiC
have ruled without material change
for several days at Chicago. but ordi-
nary cattle have lost pep with buyers.
Wilson and Ca, paid s19.45 for some
fancy steers last Tuesday, but com
paratively few steers have been good
enough to bring up to $3.50 for sew
eral days. While the cattle market
was nominally unchanged, the bulk OF
sales ranged from soc to $3.50 lower
on Saturday. compared with prices on
October 25th. The weeks receipts.
at 103,100 head were within about
5000 of the record, made in November
1918, ard was a depressing factor, but
it is worth noting that the average
weights were the same, at 229 pounds.
THE GLEN MILLER MARKET.
Owing to continuous rains last week,
and the fact that the cross roads and
farm lanes became impossible for
heavy trucks, the receipts were light
at Glen Miller yards.
AS the rains were heavy over the
central west the same conditions ap-
piled pretty generally to receiving
markets, particularly applying to ship
1nents from the prairie states and all
mudroad sections.
Rome Shurley said: "As a result OF
light, receipts hogs advanced 81 or
more. scoring a top of $13 for prime