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

UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, Aug.
7.--Cattle supply was much larger than
expected today and sellers also had large
number on hand in the sheep house. There
was no chance to hold values without
decline for stuff that did not show the
best of quality in the cattle pens. while
prices dropped in all other branches OF
the live stock trade
Receipts today were 10000 cattle, 4U,-
600 hogs, % 900 sheep and $500 calves.
Cattie-Some of the best steers sold about
steady. Choice light animals at $1,000 were
up ct the els noted at the close or last
week but ploin grades were unevenly lower.
Best COWS and heifers also sold well while
mediu mand palmer grades were LOG
Is cents lower as a rule. Gamers at 500
3.15 were unchanged and calves also sold
like the close of last week. -
Hogs-Values broke 25@50 cents FOR all
grades of hogs after a slow start. Best
light lots slod at $40. 30@10.40, while some
of the plain packing hogs went Deiow 81
Most light butchers went ,, at $1o "a $lo St:
with bulk of stock going at $9@$10. Many
hogs were lnsold at the close.
Sheep-All kinds of sheep and lambs were
lower. Some sales were 20 cents while
many showed a drop of SO cents from
the close of last week. Choice natives
were to city butchers at $3.50. while big
killers stopped at $1225. Westerns lacked
quality. Choice ewes soid at Z ana DeloW
or a 25-cent lower market.
EAST ST LOUIS, Ills. Aug. 7.-Cattle:
Receipts 5000; best steers, light yearlings,
stock steers and Gamers steady; grass
steers weak to 25c lower; bulls and light
calves, 25c lower; beef cows tending lower;
hui ksteers. s5.5o@S.50; slight learlings.
S7.5O69.25: $3.50 paid for choice cows; bulk
tanners, S2.5O@2.75; bulk bologna bulls.
375l4 25; stocker steers, $5.O0@6.25; veal
calves, top and bulk. $1,000
Hogs-Receipts $500; slow, 15c to 25c
22O.pound averages, $40 20@1O.35; 210 to
800 pound butchers, $9.75@10.15; packer
sows uneven. $7.35Q7.75; pigs lower; bulk
S9,75@10.25.
lower; sheep steady; quality medium to
good; top, 200; bulk, $11.00@11.75; culls,
S5.50@6 600; fat light ewes mostly $500;
heavies, $2.50@3.00.
KANSAS CITY, NO., Aug. 7.-Cattle: Re.
ceipts 81 600; top, S10.35; she stock and
yearlings weak to 25c lower; in-between
cows off more: bulk cows, $4.00Q5.50: few
lots. $6.O0@6.50; most grass heifers, S.. 25@
600:. Gamers, bulls and calves steady to
bologna bulls. $3.5oG4.0o; good and choice
vealers, SS.50@9.5 so; stockers, feeders steady;
common and medium feeders, S5.O0Q1.50;
strictly good feeders, $500.
Hogs-Receipts II 900; 25G40c lower;
choice light lights, $10.10: part load lights
early, $1O.15; $50 to 22O-poundern 100000
1910: good 23O to 250-pound weights, $500
@9.75 260 to 300 Founders. $9.40G9 90;
practical top, $10.10; bulk of sales $S.00@
1000; packing sows 25c lower. $7.25@7.75;
stock pigs. steady, $l0.00@10.75.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; lower; natives,
1890; most sorted natives, $12.00@12. %;
sheep steady to 25c lower; Texas wether, IS
! $6.S5@7.00.
CINCINNATI, Ohio Aug. 7.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, 6.S0O; weak % to so cents lower;
heavles, $500 10. 90; packers and butchers,
$40. % @1O. 80; heavy fat sows. $6.00M7 90;
| pigs and lights, $7.00Q10. 80; stays, $4.509
1880.
| Cattle-Receipts, 2,4O0; good light butch
ers, steady; all other classes weak to lower;
steers, "a .0069 90; heifers, 81 00M9 90
cows, $3.o006.oo; calves, steadq. $4,000
sheep-Receipts, 2,4oo; steady; se.ooa
ESQ: lambs. steady, $4.0o@13. 80.
AID STOCKS ETAoIN SIR
| LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 7.-Clttle. 100;
best. steady; others slow; heavy steers, SOC
| as: beef steers, $5.50G7.50; heifers. $5.50@
| $50: cows. s2G6; feeders, $GG0.75; stock
! ers. So 5om6.2J.
+ Hogs, $500; prospects, 25@ 45c lower; 12(
pounds to 200 pounds, $10,25; others un
| sold
Sheep. 1900; steady; lambs. s129t25o
sheep, So down.