Evening star., 1921-03-14
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.


CHICAGO. March II Omitted States
bureau of markets).-Cattle,r receipts,
22,O0O head; beef steers and butchers
she-stock slow: mostly. Is to 25 low
er; quality. good: bulk beef steers
S.50a10.o0; bulk fat cows and heifers,
6.00a7.15; Gamers and cutters. large
ly, 3.ooa4.5o: bulls steady; bulk. 5.25
a6.25; calves mostly SO lower; veal
ers mostly 10.50a11.00; stockers and
feeders steady.
Hogs. receipts: $4,000 head; fairly
active: mostly 10 to Is higher than
Saturdays average; top. 11.50 early:
bulk of 200 pounds down. 11.10a11.40;
bulk of 22o pounds up. 1i.ooa1125.
Sheep, receipts. 10000 head; open
ing slow; lambs. 25 to SO lower;
to shippers; s9-pound shorn lambs,
early, 800; bulk fat wooled lambs.
early. 9.75a10.25: no sheep sales
early; talking steady.
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE cotton
market showed renewed weakness
today owing to continued southern
hedge selling and unfavorable Liver
pool reports. The opening was steady
at an advance of 4 points on August,
but generally to points net lower,
losses OF es to 33 points. with May
selling at 11.31 and July at 1i.75.
There was some Wall street buying
and covering around these figures.
which caused rallies Of 9 or 10 points
toward the end of the first hour.
Futures opened steady; March, 1880;
May. 11.50; July, 1872; October, 12.4s;
December, 1857.
NEW ORLEANS. March 14-An un-
favorable construction placed on
weekly reviews of the textile trade
and expectations of small consumption
figures in the February report on
American mills. due from the census
bureau tomorrow morning, caused a
selling movement in the cotton mar
ket today.
May, 11.0S; July. 11.46; October. 11.94;
December. 1912.
A private bureau report of $500
| bales as the consumption in the
| United States during February, COM
pared with $4,000 in January. was re-
garded favorably, and it stimulated
| sufficient buying to bring about ad-
vances of to points compared with
the closing quotations OF Saturday.
| May traded up to 11.17.
LIVERPOOL. March 14.-Cotton-
Spot in good inquiry. Prices steady.
7.s1; middling. 6.s6; low middling,
5.S6; good ordinary, All; ordinary,
3.96. Sales, 5000 bales. including $500
| American. Receipts. 10000 bales. in
i
| steady. March, 1924: May, 741: July
7.53: October. 7.7O: December, ri;
| January. 7so.
BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK.
| UNION STOCK YARD, Claremont,
Baltimore. March 14-Cattle-Re-
| ceipts for week ended noon today
| were 1855 head. against 3,451 head
! last week. Receipts. 10 carloads for
| market for week. 6S carloads for
| market today and, Saturday, with
| continued light receipts; steers ad-
vanced from 25 to 35; fancy stable
fed bulls advanced considerably;
other bulls and cows advanced 25 to
so: steers, choice, $50 to 1000; good
butcher. s.25 to 9.25; medium, 100 to
8. 90; common. $50 to $50; heifers.
choice. 500 to $50: fair to good, 100
to 7.75: common to medium. 500 to
G. 90: bulls, choice. $50 to TOO; fair to
good. $50 to 6.25; common to me-
dium. 400 to 500; cows, choice, 6.25
to SIS: fair to good, 525 to 500; COM
mon to medium. 200 to 500.
Sheep and lambs--Receipts for
week ended noon today were 2.ss6
head. against 3.71s head last week;
light supply; market high on lambs,
steady on sheep: sheep. $50 to 100;
lambs. 7.50 to 1900; prime western
lambs. 1910 down.