The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-16
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Chicago, July 16.-CATTLE-Receipt
steers hgher WIN yeafinss Sc to Soc
higher; best fat she stock, steady to 25c
higher; other grades, steady to uneyenly
SOC higher; veal calves, SOC to roc up; stock
er steers, steady to 25c higher; feeders,
HoGS-Receipts 5000 Market active. 15c
fairly good clearance; top, $1O.50 bulk bet
ter grades, $10.O0Q10.5o; pigs, 10c to 25c
sHEEP-Receipts 1000, practically all to
packers direct. Compared with week ago !;
around 25e lower: sheep, strong to 25c
higher; feeder lambs, 25c higher
ST. JOE LIVESTOCK MARKET.
St. Joe, July 6-HOGS-Receipts 5000.
Market 10@25c higher; top, $1025; bulk of
sales $9.50610.25.
CATTLE-Reeeipt 200. Market nominal
steers. $650@9.50; cows and heifers, $4.509
SHEEP-Receipts 200 Market nominal.
Lambs, Ss-25a1o-75; ewes. $4.oo@45o
KANSAS CITY wEEKLx LIVESTOCK
MARKET.
Kansas City Stock Yards, July 16.
THE TEN DOLLAR HOG ARRIVED.
CATTLE HIGHER FOR WEEK.
For the first time in several months past
hogs yesterday sold up to $1,000 . hundred
pounds. Prices are $3.50 to rs higher
than the low point in June. The market is
equal to most urgent demand. In the first
three days this week cattle prices rose rs
cents to SIPS, and in the past two days
half the gain was lost. Yearlings sold up to
$3.50, or higher than at any other market.
Native lambs declined 25 cents, and sfieep
were higher.
THIS WEEKS RECEIPTS.
Receipts this week were % $50 cattle, 6 ,150
calves, 9,150 hogs, and 24,S00 sheep. COM
pared with Is 100 cattle, 400 calves, 49,
400 hogs, and 5000 sheep last week, and
81, S25 cattle, $500 calves, 36,15U hogs, and
21,S00 sheep a year ago.
BEEF CATTLE.
A sharp advance followed by a partial
setback was the feature in the cattle market
81 25. came in the first three three days and in
/ the. past two days the setback was about
half the earlier gain. Numerous sales OF
weight steers were made at $500 to $3.50
with a two car bunch of $50 pound Kansas
yearlings at seeo. or 10 cents above the toy
steers sold up to $3.50, and the bulk OF all
the fed steers sold at $500 to $500. Heav-
lily .wintered summer grazed steers sold III
steers brought S575 to SIPS. Cows and
heffers were Is to so cents higher, and yea
| calves steady to SO cents higher, top 1925.
| STOCKERS AND FEEDERS.
4 Demand for stockers and feeders was ac
| tive, but the volume of trade was held
down by the light receipts. Prices wer'
unevenly higher. Good crop conditions ant
4 ~-N~~-- -
1 demand.
| HOGS.
Hog prices this week continued on thi
upgrade under urgent demand and light re
ceipts, and today the top was $1o.05, thu
| highest in several months past. Compared
| with week ago, prices are SO to GO cent
higher, and $3.50 to 1915 above the low
point in June. The recent rise in prices il
| attributed to a big demand for pork ans
/ pork product, in connection with light re
ceipts. At the same time hogs are showing
better killing percentages than normal TO
mid summer. The bulk of the hogs toda,
sold at S975 to $1,000
SHEEP AND LAMBS.
Sheep prices were up 25 to so cents ant
| lambs % cents lower. Clipped ewes sol,
mostly at 1878 to $4-35, wethers S4.25 t,
S4.T5, and native lambs $3.50 to $1,000 N,
| western lambs arrived. There was some in
quiry for feeding lambs.
! HORSES AND MULES.
| Trade in horses and mules was shu
down to meager supplies. Prices wer
quoted unchanged.
4 CHARLES NJ PIPEIN
| Market CoFresnondenf