, 1923-08-27
Livestock

CHICAGO. Aug. 27-Hogs. Re
ceipts c. 900: desirable grades strong
to five cents higher; others slow: big
packers holding back; bulk good and
choice $50 to $40 pound averages 9lB
G9ao; top 1885, desirable $50 TO $40
pound butchers largely $40 TO po5;
most packing sows T.s5@7.5o: desir.
able strong weight PIGS s.50Qs.T5;
heavy weight hogs s.o00s.oo; med
UNI s.60Gs.5o; light 7.s09s35; light
light 7.6oAe.so; packing sows
smooth 7.15@7.To; packing sows
rough o.s5@7.15; Slaughter pigs 7.25
as.75.
Cattle. Receipts 10000; eompar.
atively little done; killing quality
largely medium TO good; market
largely 10 10 csc lower; spots moro
on lower grades. beef steers and fat
she stock; corn fed description, all
classes comparatively scarce; early
top matured steers lass: best year.
linss i2.25; Gamers fairly active,
steady to weak: bulls. excepting
light grassy kind. largely steady;
v~ealers soc lower. around 1900, most.
ly TO packers; run includes about
5000 western grassers; few early
sales Montanas s.25 downward.
Sheep. Receipts $500; better
grades fat lambs weak to csc lower:
others around steady; sheep steady
to strong: one five a string good
western fat lambs 1880: most natives
13.o0913,25;. culls generally $3.50
e.75; one deck fat yeariing wethers
around 95 pounds 11.5o: cary sales
odd lot light weight ewes upward to
SIS; heavies around 500; one six
car string feeding lambs averaging
around C. pounds 14lo.
MARKET-LIvEsTocK
OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. aT-Hogs.
Receipts 1900; market slow; limited
movement; good quality light butch.
ers 10 shippers steady to loo lower
mostly steady; 100 Il $50 pound av,
erages $50 TO s.55: top $50; paid for
sorted loads 1911 pound averages,
nothing doing on others; holding for
steady prices: packers bidding $50
Csc lower; average cost Saturday
1872; weight 2T3,
Cattle. Receipts $4,000; run most
ly westerns: fed steeds. yearllngs and
better grade stock fully steady; top
steers 12.25; IA steers steady:
bulk westerns unsold: grass COWS and
heifers steady to loo lower; calves
and bulls steady; choice heavy feed.
ers fairly steady; others and stockers
weak to ESQ lower; bulk fed steers
and yeariings 9.004i1.b0; grass COWS
and heifers a.7595.5o; bulk range
feeders held 7.o09s.oO; stockers 500
AT.5O.
Sheep. Receipts $4,000; lambs slow
steady to 10c lower: early sales ives.
tern fat lambs to packers 1900
1900; top 1a.25; top shippers; sheep
$50 and SOC lower; bulk desirable
fat ewes 1909 rs: feeders active;
fully steady; early sales desirable
range lambs 1900 n 13.25; heavy
lambs on down to 1900; early sales
feeding ewes 6.oohb.5o.
DENVER. Colo. Aug. 2T-Hoe re-
eeipts 1900; market active( Is to s6
higher; top e.10 for choice 40 pound
averages; several loads heavy weight
$50 TO $50; good heavy butchers
$50; bulk of sales $50: drfve-ins 500
to sos; stock pigs rs to SOC higher;
best 7.25; packer COWS % TO Soc
higher; mostly 700; rough kind $50.
Cattle receipts 1900; calves 400;
bidding lower on grass steers and
plain grade she stock: other grades
and feed offerings steady; fed e95
pound mixed yearlinss io,25; short
fed $50 pound steers 900; several
loads fair 20 good grass steers held
at 500 up; few head choice at $50:
best 1000 pound grass cows 500.
medium to good grade $40 to 500:
Gamers mostly 400: bologna bulls
3.25 to 400; choice vealors. mostly
$50; Suckers and feeders. steady 10
is lower: medium Erassers $50.
shepe receipts $500; early sales
ewes steady. Wyoming ewes 100
with culs at 400; early fat lambs
steady to 100 lower rs pound Colo
radios 1850; packers bidding lower