Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-15
Live Stock Market

UNION STOCkGARDS, CHICAGO, Aug.
14.-A rather quiet but firm midsummer
demand marked the live stock markets here
today. Receipts were moderate, being con-
siderably lighter in all branches of the
trade than year ago However,
arrivals of cattle were heavier in the ten
principal markets than q week ago.
Receipts today We're 10000 Scattle 80, 900
hogs, 1900 sheep, and 1000 calves
Cattle: a few choice steers sold higher
good medium weight stock reaching $1,000
while the rank and file of steers sold steady
to strong. Butcher stock was in good de-
mand, especially the fleshy heavy cows and
heifers. which moved 10M15c higher at
S3oO0725. Canning grades of she-stock
was steady and bulls were unchanged. Veal
ers were slow, packers bidding lower while
outsiders paid steady prices.
Hogs-The early market was 10615c
higher for light hogs, prime underweight
stuff topping at $1O.35, with many sales
Mt $1025 and higher The advance gradual
excepting only pigs, which were in scant
supply, and common to fair heavy packing
sows Bulk of the heavy butchers brought
$91O@9.25, medium weight sold at $99O@
10 and lights from $10M1O35
Sheep: The outlook for a stronger lamb
market, but lack of pressing outside orders
left the trade i'll the hands of local
packers who bought lightly and secured the
bulk Of their stuff at steady prices. Good
native lambs ranged from $12@1225. while
westerns brought $1025 and choice ones were
quoted up to limit of $12.G5. Sheep We're
scarce and sold steady, ewes of handy
weight making $7@7.35.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 14.-1United
States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Cattle: Receipts, 10000; best fed steers. Zoe
to 1Jc higher; other fe dots, steady 20
strong; top medium and heavy weights.
$1,000: she stock and other steers. steady to
15c lower: bulk cows, $3.50M5.50: bulls.
weak to 25c lower; bolognas, $3250 3.75:
bulk Gamers, 1925; most cutters. 1925;
lower; best vealers. $9.00M9.50; most heavy
and medium weight, S5.50@7.00; early
sales stockers. $4.50M7.00: most feeders.
$6506l7.30; few around $780,
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; fairly active, &c to
Zoe higher; shipper, to, $500; packer, top,
$9.45: 40 to 210-pounderS, SO 35Gl9.60; 220
to 250-pounders, $9.05@9.40; 260 to 800
Founders. $S.406S.95; bulk, $S.4OM0. A.
7.75: stock pigs, dull. 40c lower; bulk, So. 90
@9GO.
sheep-Receipts. $1,000 lambs, steady
natives and westerns $1,000: most sorted
lots, 11.75@12.00; sheep, strong: few light
ewes, $780, most fat natives, $5.OOM6.2I;
wethers, 1925: Utah feeding lambs Sl2 90.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ills, Aug. 14.-(U. S.
Bureau of Agricultural Economies, )-Cattle
Receipts, 5000; steers Is to % cents high
err; medium grades, slow: stocker steers,
strong; bulk, light yearlings, sc. 5O@ .00;
beef cows, $1,000 CO. 50: bologna bulls, So p
@3.75; Gamers, So. 1902. 40; light calves,
$40. G0610.25; top, 5000; stocker steers
So. OOM650.
Hogs-Receipts. 5000; Is to % cents
higher! top 5000; early for light lights;
bulk, 100 to 21O-pound averages, 80. 90@
10. %; 200 to 250-pounders,, 50. 5O@1O 90;
no heavies sold; packer sows, $1,000 20
bulk, 90 to 120-pound pigs, SO 50@10. 90.
| Sheep-Receipts, 5000: strong to 25c high
er; top lambs. $11.75; bulk, $11 25@11; 80
culls, Sc 90; light ewes, Sc 90; heaves, So .0C
! @3 80; Gamers and choppers, SOC to 50. 80.
| CINCINNATI. Ohio, Aug. 14.-Hogs: Re
! Ceipts 300; slow and steady to 2oc higher
| IIeavies, SS.50M9.50; packers and butchers
$9.75@1O.OO heavy fat sows, $6.OO@700
pigs and lights, $7.O0@10.25; stays, $4.5O@
! $50
Cattle Receipts. 2,7oo: slow and weak We ak
cows, $2.5O@6.0o. Calves, strong, S4OO@
| HOO
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; steady, $2.Ood
$50; lambs. steady $4.00M13.00.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 14.-Cattle. 3,
900; Slow, lower heavy steers, $I.5OQS
beef steers, $S.5O@75O; heifers, $5,50@7.75
COWS, $2m5.75; feeders, S5.50@G.5O; stock
ers, S3@G.25.
Hogs, / POO steady to - higher; 12O t.
200 pounds, 50 %; 200 pounds up, $3.50
pigs, $S.75 throwouts, $3.50 down.
Sheep. 1000; steady; lambs. $3.50; sheep
So down.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-FlOur, quiet an
Pork, dull; mess, S2S. 90.
Lard, steady; middle west spot, $11. 400
II 80.
Sugar, raw, quiet; centrifugal, 90 test
3 SO; refined, quiet; graduated, 7.00@7.7C
Coffee, Rio No. I, on spot, 9as @1oc; No.,
Santos, 14A M1412c.
Tallow, quiet; specials, csc city, 52S e;
/ .25; clover, S5c@ @$1 80.
Dressed poultry, dull turkeys, 25@55c
chickens, 25@4Oc fowls, 17@3Oc; ducks
, 2O@25c.
Live poultry, firm; geese, 14@17c; ducks
14@ PC; fowls. 21@26c; turkeys, 2O@35c
ROSTERS, Ice; hroiers, 29@36c.
Cheese, steady; state milk, common spe
cals. 15@211ac; skins, common to specials
15@15Rc.
Butter, firm; receipts, 9,754; creamery
extra, Sic; do. special market, $40 q 35c
state dairy. tubs, imitation creamery, first:
'27@331ac.
Eggs. steady; receipts, 11,4G5; near-b
white firsts, 56c; nearby mixed fancy, 21G
SOC; fresh firsts, 24G31c; Pacific coast eA
traS, 260$<R.