Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-21
LIVE STOCK nv WIRE

CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-Hogs: Receipts
a 600; market strong to 1oc higher than
@17;90; butchers, $17.65@18.OO light
$17.o0@1765; packing, $1660@17 60; throw
outs gu s. $16,Oo@16'5o' pigs good, $1325@
CattIe-Receipts $4,000 good steers
steady; others butcher stocks and feeders,
slow to lower; calves steady. Beef cattle
good $16.50@2000; common, $9.7501G.5O
butcher 51 9d stock, cows and heifers, $3.50
stockers and feeders, good, $10.5O014 %;
common, SS.00@10.50; veal calves, good,
$15.50016.00.
Sheep-Receipts 81 200; choice lambs
strong; other classes opening steady Lambs
choice, 166OG16.75; medium, SIS OOG16 60
culls, $11.50@13.75; ewes, choice, $4,000
1873; medium, $9.25@1O.5O; culls, 81 90
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Jan. 2o.-Catt1e,
receipts, 5000, including no Texans; mar
lS 20 steady; native beef steers, $7.50@
100; cows $7;50@12.5O; stockers and
feeders, $S50@12.0O; calves, $7.75@17. 25; ;
Texas steers $1600@1770; cows and heif-
ers. S7.50@15.50.
mixed and butchers, $17.4O@17.SO: good
and heavy, $17.55@1S. co. rough, s15.0O@
1910; light, $17.00@17,5; pigs, $4,000
1850; bulk, $17.4O@17.SO.
Sheep, receipts, 1,50O: market steady$
clipped ewes, $S.5O@1O.50; lambs, $16OO@
1850; Gamers and choppers. $5.00@9.OO,
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 20.-Cattle: Re-
ceipts. 1,G50; market, steady.
Hogs: Receipts, 5000; steady to lower
$50 pounds up, $17.1O; pigs, $50 pounds
down, $14.50; throw-outs, lac down.
Sheep: Receipts, so; market, active.
HUGH F. MELRoY's COTTON LETTER
NEW YORK, Jan. 2O-Livcrpool is play
ing big game of strategy. Reports we're
ing that Manchester mills are reselling
their stock because they have no orders
Why didn't they add that they have no
stocks 10 SELL The visible supply Of Ameri
can cotton in Manchester is only II 900
ton for jus tone week before the war
while Liverpool stock is a million ba'es
less than they were before the war. The
owners by creating the impression that
promise of big exports is all wrong. and
that spot owners will be left to mold the
bag.
The truth of the matter is that not only
is England hungry foc cotton but th0t Ger
many and continental Europe are actually
starving for it, and only waiting for the
blockade to be raised to take big blocks
off our hands as fast as trarspol tatiOn can
lie provided. German aud Austrian mills
have not been touched by war and their
manufacturing capacity is fully equal to
pre-war times. Then, they consumed over
three million bales. when they had the usual
manufacturers reserve of four months
working stock, of which they have ncne
now. This means that within twelve
months after the blockade is raised the
central powers will need between 5000, 900
and 10000 900 bales Of our cotton.
We learn from Belgium that mills there
are ready to resume and complain that
their government still restricts imports.
1t must be remembered that Germany never
expected to give up Belgium and there
fore protected hr industries as her own,
and these mills are expected to be in OPP
Grafton within a month and therefore pro-
tectcd her industries rs her own, and these
mills expected to be in operation with
in Il month and therefore in the market for
Jaw cotton. This information comes from
the foHnta IN source
If the farmer can see through 4 hole n
ladder lie will realize the prospects. and
be content to possess himself in patience
until the definite raising of the blockade
against central Europe and the supply of
tonnage opens the floodgates of demand.
The world needs his Gotten the moment tho
gates are opened.