Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-29
Live Stock Supplies
Are Light, and Prices
Seek Higher Ground
BY L. c. GRUNDELAND
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal }
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tOOpy ElSHl, 1901
UNION STOCK YARDS Chicago, WED
nesday) Nov. '2S.--Live stock supplies were
comparatively light today and the trade
showed strength. The fact that the market
will be closed tomorrow also helped little,
as there were orders to be filled before
a better values, while hogs and sheep also
gained. Sellers had only about II, 300 hogs
held from the day before. No hogs
were received by big killers from other
trading points. while less than 1000 lambs
were billed that way. Car report for the
dayl $40.
Receipts were 5000 cattle, %, 900 hogs,
5000 sheep and 1900 calves.
Demand for choice cattle was fairly ac-
tive from the start and most of the sellers
were willing to call valnes 10M1j cents
higher for The bulk of beef steers Some
prime yearlings on hand, and these
were quoted up to $l2.60M12.75. Com
pared with the close of last week prices
SHOVE Ga gain for all kinds of good steers.
Native COWS and hefers had strong mar
ket with some sales higher, while bulls
also were in good demand. Bulk of choice
veal calves went over at $S.50MS.I5 on a
fuzzy steady market.
Hogs were higher from the start. Ship
pes and yards traders paid 15@25 cents
| more than the day before. but big packers
were slow to show up Even their trading
was done at higher values later in the day,
however. Choice butchers sold at $40,
while some of the best packing hogs went
at $e.G00670.
Lambs sold 15625 cents higher from the
start and dmeand was good even for me-
dunn and palmer lots. Prime killing lambs
went to shippers and city butchers at $13. 30
while big killers paid S13.O0M13.35 for
choice lots. Small lots of aged muttons sold
at strong values
CINCINNATI. Nov. S.-Hogs-Receipts.
$500, active, steady, ) to 15c higher; heavy,
500; packers and butchers 81. 90; medium,
S6.G5; stays, $4.00@4.75; pigs and lights,
81. 50G5.75.
Cattle-Receipts, 300, active. pc TO soc
higher; Gamers and cutters, strong to 15c
higher; steers, $4.O0@9. 80; heifers. So. 50a
80; cows, 81. 50@5. 80; calves, steady.
sheep@Reeeipts. 100; strong; lambs,
strong, 81. 00M12. so.
KANSAS CITY, No., Nov. 2S.-Cattle-
Receipts, 1000; calves, $500; strong to 15c
higher; best matured steers, SO 90; mixed
yearlings, $1,000; bulk short feds 81 .5O0l
100: beef cows, $3 50M5 90; Gamers and
80. 50@4 90: top veals, $3.50; heayies and
mediums, $4.00@7.0 90; stockers and feeders,
So. 25M6.50.
Hoss-Receipts, 1900. slow. 1Oc TO 15c
higher; top, Sc. go; bulk Of sales, So 800
6.65; desirable 200@210-pound averages.
Sc. 55@6.65; 170@200-pound averages, Sc. IL
50; bulk, 130M160 pounds, 81. 1896 90;
packing sows, mostly $6.00@6.25; took pigs.
81. 75M5.25.
sheep-Receipts, 5000; lambs. steady,
spots, 25c lower; top few lots. $l2.65 9th
ers, $12. 25@12. 40; natives, $12 80; sheep,
steady; fall shOrn wethers, $40.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,. Nov. 2s.-United
States Department of Agriculture. Hogs
Receipts. 1000, lie to PC higher: choice
go to 260poun kinds. Hogs. 700; bulk 1916
to go pounds. $675@6.90; 100 to $50
ppounds, $6.60m6.75; pigs and light lights,
| S600@6.50; 100 to $50 pounds. $5.50@ 800;
packer sOws, 5000
Cattle: Receipts. 1000, steady to shade
higher; beef steers, SG.75@S.30; light year
ligns, $S.00M9.50; cows, $4,000 90: can
| ners, $2.30M2 40: bologna bulls. So. J0M4 -
light veaIers, $3.50; top, $1,000; stockeI
steers. $5.0O@j.5O.
Sheep: Receipts, 800: fat lambs. 25c to
Soc higher, $l3.35 for cohce natives; fed
! lambs, $12.15; culls, $S.OO@S.5O; light NUT
| ton ewes. $6.00M6.5Q
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. 2S.-Cattle-
steady; heavy steers, $7.50@S.O0: beef
steers $400@7.O0; hefers, S4.0067 50;
cows, $2.00@5.50; feeders. S4.5O@6.0 90;
| stockers, $2.5O@5.75.
Hogs-Receipts. 5000; steady to 15c
higher; 200 pounds up, $1O0; 165 to 201
pounds. $3.50: 120 TO 165 pounds, $50 10;
pigs. 100 pounds down, So %; throwouots,
| IS 80 down.
sheep-Receipts. 100; steady; lahbs. $l1
ATLANTA, Nov 2S.-(U. S. Dept OF
| Agriculture. )-Cattle, 30; few fresh ar
rivals here; little trading; small lots com
s3.OO@4 90: choice heavy calves, $500;
Hogs, 200 slow; hardly enough early
sales TO establish a market: few 120 IL
| 130-pound averages. $3.50; individual sales.
| 100 to 200-pound kinds at S7.I5MSOO