The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-04
LIVE STOCK, GRAIN,
PRICES DOWNWARD
DURING LAST WEEK
By WILLIAM r. SANBORN

If you happen to know of single
thing that farmers produce, which
hasn't had a precipitous decline OF
late, and the price Of which hasn't
actually been shot to pieces. drop me
a postal 1t may be that we have over
looked something.
Be that as it may all grains and
every class Of farm live stock has been
on the toboggan. If the Madame's
chickens have escaped the general
price slaughter it must be because
they have been overlooked, or because
the bulls and bears have not been
interested.
Under the caption: bad Week for
Beef" the Chicago Drover's Journal OF
Saturday, Oct. 2, recites that values
are unstable, and that the declines In
the last two weeks range from 81 to
SO on steers" Now steers, be 1t known,
are the source of our most edible beef
Veals are low, sheep, except for
lambs, are nearing the point where
they will no longer pay freight and
handling charges, while lambs are so
cheap that one might almost expect
to find lamb chops on every butchers
bargain counter These are the facts
as they relate to the animal on the
hoof; farther than that deponent saith
not.
Glen Miller Market.
Rome Shurley, mighty close OBJ
server Of the trend, said on Monday:
lowing to the break in prices Of hogs
| last week it was hard to establish a
| price, after a drop of as much as 50
per hundred pounds in the fore-part
! Of the week. The market steadied on
Friday and Saturday, and our hogs
were bought from Friday on at prac-
| tically SIS per hundred, with pigs
and lights at s12 to s14. as to quail
| ity. Owing to. the slump in the price
| Of cattle, it seemed impossible to buy
at a price low enough to ship and
! come out whole. Cows were selling
at 3 to 7 cents per pound; bulls 4
| to 6 cents; steers to 10 cents and
calves at from to IA cents. Spring
lambs dropped to and cents; sheep
to cents If sheep get down bit
| lower, they will not pay anything over
| freight and commissions for handling"
Deliveries of Hogs.
| The 322 hogs taken in on Saturday
weighed 64390 pounds and cost the
yards S10,12S. w. S. Johnson, of Ran
dolph county, sent in 40 porkers,
weighing $50 pounds, which brought
his 141s cents, on the Friday market.
William Miller, of New Paris, deliver
ed As spring pigs, averaging 40
pounds, the heaviest springs so far
sold at the Glen yards this year. Rus
sci Brown sold 25 hogs, weighing
$50 pounds at SIS, and Leonard
Mills. of New Madison, sold bunch
of lights at from 10 to IA cents. Ed
Durham, of Fountain City. brought in
20 head which netted him SIS. and
Charles Dagler, of Hagerstown, had a
lot which showed 5000 pounds over
! the scales.
But SO calves came in last week,
weighing $500 pounds, cost 1852.
Others in Market Last Week.
Among those who contributed to 10
| cal receipts last week were: Harry
Osborne, Elmer Sitloh, Bert Skinner.
w c. Baird, NJ. T. Meyers. 0. NJ
Jennings, c. D. Morrow, w. D. Rich.
| Pat Seaney, w. Weatherby. Bert Hiatt.
| r. c. Ross, Samuel Drew. r. A. Mike
sell. Fred Brown, Joe Mckee, Joe Par
dcick, j. F. Bullerdick, Leonard Mills.
George Rothermel, Albert Irwin and
| Chester LOntZ