The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-23

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 2s.-eattle: Re-
ceipts, 1000. active; heavy steers. $500,
eeei steers, s6@S;5o' helters, $4.bo g =
cows, szW6.25i Ieeders, 5000 q I: stoekers,
SJU5.23.
aogs. Receipts. I,5oO; 1oe higher; 100
to 250 pounds $500 $50 pounds up $500 ;
1-1 pounds down, $3.50 throwouts, 80. 80
down. w
sheep Receipts, 30; steady; lambs, s12.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, Feb. s2.-Hogs:
Receipts T. 500: slow and steady.
cattle: Receipts, 1900; slow and steady;
calves choice. steady medium and com
sheep Receipts 50 steady lambs were
steady.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-Cattle: Receipts.
5000. active; beef steers and better grades
beef heifers strong To use higher; top ma
tured steers Mnd long yeariings Slo.=5'
averaging 204 and l,096 pounds respec-
lively. bulk beef steers, $3.50 a $780, few
loads. $4,000, few loads plain yearlings
around $3.50; beef cows and lower grades
beef heiiefs, strong, spots higher on lar
COWS of value to sell about S5.75. camera
and cutters strong; bologna bulls strong IA
15c higher; heavy beef bulls steady stock
ers and feeders fairly active better eraues
strong; others steady with recent decline
bulk Gamers and cutters, $3.50 O. e25, DUH
bologna bulls. S5G5.15; few heavies up
ward to 1925; most heavy peer putls, ~
d5.15; bulk medium to good light vealers
to packers $11@12; few at Sl2.h0; choice
kind upward to s14.50 and above. to
shippers; bulk stec6ers, S6.bO@ Ito; meaty'
923- pound feeders, out of first hands, so,lo.
Hogs: Receipts. $4,000; mostly loo
higher; bulk $50 to 200-pound averages
s8.3e@s.50; top, $500; bulk $40 to SOo-
pound butchers, $500 see; packing Hows,
mostly S6s5@7.15; desirable pigs around
s7.75; estimated holdover, 10, oQo.
sheep; Receipts 1900 killing classes
generally strong to 15c higher; top fat
lambs, $3.50 to city butchers, s15.15 te
packers, bulk desirable wooded lambs
s14s5@15.15; clipped kind generally, 81
with heavies around $40; one load 81
pound Navajo yearlings. $3.50; about fouI
loads strictly choice 1917 pound ewes, SS.6O
to shippers. other desirable ewes. x7.7SQ
$40; palmer kind mostly SG4750; one
double Mexican wethers. SO; some 9s-
pound 2-year-oId Navajo wethers, $40
feeders quiet. one load good quality rs
pound shearing lambs, Sl45O.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22.-cattie: Re
eeipts l. 900; generally steady steer quail
ty common bulk steers, S6.75475o. bulf
light yeariings, $6.50@7.2 rs: cows largely
$4.75@6; Gamers, s2f5@3 bologna pulis
mostly $4.75@5.25 good and choice ligh
Hogs. Receipts. 10000; light hogs, I
to Joe higher: others slow and ittlt
changed; top. $50: bulk 40 to 1S0-poune
averages SS55m8.G0. 1870 TO 2z0 pounds
sS.30@S.50: $50 pounds and up $50 SG5
pigs steady: bulk desirab BILE weights, St.t'
as: plain and light kinds. S6.Ibq 20
packers otherwise strong; bulk, S6.lO@S 81
Sheer. Receipts. $50: steady; two
decks good S7-pound lambs, $14.5o; one
deck fresh shorn wethers to butchers
s715; TWO decks to packers. 81; no fat
ewes GA sale
KANSAS CITY. Mo, Feb. 22.-cattle
Receipts. $500; beef steers steady t
weak; early sales. S7.l5Q9; calves weak .
soc lower; mostly soc lower; few Veaier 5
Sl2 early. bulk good and choice $11
ll50; all other classes around steady
best cows, S617; bulk others, $4bO Q o.oo
Gamers and cutters generally s2.5O@
bulk good bologna bulls, $3.50; fat kind
mostly S5@5 $50; fairly good feeders Si'E
G750: palmer grades stockers 81 down.
Hogs: Receipts 5000. very active
mostly packers. 10 to 15c higher; early
sales to shippers steady to &c higher
packer top. $3.50; shipper top, $3.50 oult
of sales. $500 SIS; bulk desirable 40 L
3OO-pound averages. SS.10GS.25; packing
sows steady, mostly 81 stock pigs wer'
steady. butk S7.40Q7.75.
sheep: Receipts, 5000: lambs generally
steady to lac lower. TO Sl4.5O; most lot
s1425Q14.5O; sheep and yearllngs stront
to l5c higher; &c pound yearings, $3.50
wethers. 50; best light ewes. $3.50.