Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-22

the general decline, most sales being made
at $3.50 60, with good lots at S6.70.
Live mutton market failed TO hold. This
a light supply. Most of
the sales were off 10@15 cents, with imme
date shorts even lower. Packers paid
$3.50 for choice lambs, while some stock
went to shippers a 1920. Few aged NUT
tons were on hand. The market was slow
and somewhat lower for ewes.
KANSAS CITY. Dec. 20.-Cattle. $500;
calves 500; fairly active; beef steers and
desirable yearlings strong. to 25c higher;
SO; mixed yearlings, $9.25d9.75; beef
cows steady; Gamers and cutters strong to
shade higher; medium quality heifers very
dull; bulls steady; calves steady; practical
top veals. $500; stockrS and feeders SLOW
about steady, bulk, $6.00@7.00.
Hogs, 10000; very slow. . to Toe lower
to shippers; bulk of sales $6.40@675; pack
ers holding back; desirable go to 270-pound
averages, $6.7OMG.S0; good 100 to 0-pound
averages, $6.30@6.65 bulk 1870 to 150-pound
averages, $5.S5M6.1J; packing sows, Sc. 350l
$40: stock pigs weak to 25c lower; bulk,
Sheep. 1900; lambs steady to CSC higher;
best fed lots, 12.45; others, So. 0j012. 10 ;
sheep steady; lightweight ewes, $G.75,
EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Dec. 20.-(U. s.
Department Of Agriculture )-Hogs-Re-
ceiptS, 300, slow; mostly 10 to Is cents
lower; So. 90@7. 90; taking most good butch
ers; pigs, steady, at So 2506.G0 for $50 to
1o0-pound kinds; bulk packer sows. $6.o O@
6 10.
Cattle-Receipts, 1900; beef steers,
scarce, dull; Gamers opened steady at $2.1j
M2.50; new tending lower; light vealers,
- to 90 cents higher, at IS. 1908 90; other
classes steady; most cows, So. rs 90; bo-
logna bulls. So 5004.25.
Sheep-Receipts, 500; steady; few good to
choice native lambs to packers, $12. % q
80; small lots. medium to good lambs
$11. 50@12. 90; culls, $3.50; light mutton
ewes, $6.00@6.50
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. o0.-U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Ca ttle-Receipts
$50; killing classes, active, strong; others
slow. steady; common, 740-lb. southern
steers, 81 so; medium to good cows and
heifers, 50. 50@6.00; common kinds IS OF
"a. sos Gamers and cutters. $1.75@3 90
choice, 233-lb. hereford calves, 500.
Hogs-Receipts, 700; fairly active, steady
practical top, $7.45; bulk, 1G0 to 200lb
averages, 81 .50@7.75; 1870 to 1601lbs.
mostly 81 %; 100 to 130-lb. pigs, largely
$6.75; lighter kinds. So. %; soft or oily
hogs, 75c@$1.00 under preceding quota
tons
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Dec. 2O.-Cattle:
500: beef steers, S0.o0@600; heifers, 5000
| so; cows, $3506I5. 90; feeders, $4.50M
$50; stotkers, $2.50@5.00.
Hogs-Receipts 1900; heavy and medium
hogs and throwouts 10 cents lower; POO
pounds and up, $500; 165 to 200 pounds,
$I:Uo; 13o to 100 pounds, $3.50; pigs, $5.25
@5,65; throwouts, $3.50 down.
| Sheep-NGminal, steady; fat sheep. So SO
@4.50; choice lambs, $S.oO@1O.O0, I'M
! changed.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. o0-Cattle: Re-
ccipts 800; slow and steady; heavy steers,
! $7.50@S.50; beef steers, $4.000750; heif-
| ers, $4.00@S,00; cows, SO .00G5. so: feed
ers; $450060o; stockers, $2.50@5.7O.
! Hogs-Re ceipts $500: steady to Ice low
err; 165 pounds up, $500: 100 to 185 pounds,
$3.50; pigs, l20 pounds down, $5.75; throw
! outs, $3.50 down.
| Sheep-Eeceipts 80: steady; lambs, s11.