Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
Bids in Cattle Pens
OF Chicago Market :
Weak at Opening
BY L. C. GRUNEGAND
Ueased Wire Service, to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1929

UNION SToCKYARDs, Chicago, H.,
Sept. 4.-Compara lively large runs were re-
ported at the local yards after the holiday.
Some of the stock on hand today. was re-
ceived yesterday and counted with
today's run. In the cattle pens bids were
weak from the start, while lambs also were
found in the market for hogs. however.
About fifty cattle were forwarded to big
killers while 200 hogs and 500 sheep were
billed to packers. Sellers had less than
1000 hogs held over from Saturday.
Receipts were $1,000 cattle, $4,000 hogs,
81. 900 sheep, and 5000 calves
Of the estimated run of cattle, more than
5000 were westerns and the trade was
slow, with all changes in favor of buyers,
choice 1.4S5 pound steers sold at $40. 10.
Small killers priced fully steady values for
calves, while some sales to big packers
were weak late in the day.
Light hogs were up a dime: but plain
grades did not show much gain in some
spots. Taken as whole, however, the
market for hogs was active and strong.
Top lots went at 1925. 49,.
Killing lambs were weak and most sales
showed a decline of % cents from the lev
els noted at the close Of last week.
EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Sept Admitted
States Department of Agriculture. HOGS:
Receipts, $4,000; extremely dull; tending
lower; first sales light hogs steady at $40
@9.SO; packers trying to buy good light
weights at $3.50 and down; no action on
medium weight or heavy butchers; good
Killings pigs weak to 25c lower; plain and
light kinds SOC lower; packer sows I'M
changed; bulk around $50.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000; lower undertone
on western steers; other classes about
steady; fat steers scarce: light vealers,
steady to higher at 50G11.O0; few beer
steers, $11.00; some westerns, $40; beel
COWS largely $3.75@ 800; Gamers, S2.2oW
= 3d. bologna bulls, $4.O0Q4.5O.
$1,000 for good native lambs; no choice
lambs on sale; bulk early offerings, $ll.15W
1900; culls mostly $3.50; good light killing
ewes. $7,O0@7.50
KANSAS CITY, No., Sept a.-{Cni;ed
States Department Of Agricultural Cattle,
%, 900; calves, 1000. Slow. better grades
corn-fed steers and yearlings, around steady
other fed steers and grassers, dull; top ma
tured steers, $500; some held higher; long
yearings $3.50; she stock and anjs
mostly steady; bulk beef cows, $500 90;
odd head, choice prime, S6.00W7.J0; po-
logna bulls $500 100; calves. draggy,
steady 70 25c lower, :op Teais. $500 2et-
ter grades stcokers and feeders. steady;
others lower; fleshy feeders ~ 70 1910,
Hogs, $1,000; around l0c higher % ship.
pers than Yesterday: bulk 40 to 235-pound
sales. sS.65@9.30; packers doing little; bid
ding steady with Yesterday; packer market,
bulk desirable 40 to 1T5-pound averages,
$S;25d8.5o; packing s9ws, largely S.. 100
around 25c lower; bulk, sG.50M7,0o:
Sheep, 5000, very slow: early sales lambs
around 2Jc lower; best Idahos, $l2.7j: 9TH
er westerns, $3.50; later bids off more;
very few sheep offered, bidding lower.
LOUISVILLE. KY. Sept. 4.-CattIe 2G1.
slow. weak: heavy steers. $S.0OMS. -;
beef steers. $1,000 %: hefers. $5.00@S.50;
cows, $2.o0M7.0o: feeders, $G-0o@7.30;
st6cEers, $3,J0M G.75.
Hogs 500 steady; 49,: pounds m,
SEQ: 40 to F6j pounds. SOL pigs, 129
pounds down, $765; throwouts S7.25 down,
Sheep. 100 steady; lambs. S12.O0(G
1880; sheep, $3.50@J.50.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Sept 4.-Rogs: Re-
ceipts. $780, steady to 10 cents lower;
packers and butchers, $3.50: medium, $3.50;
stays. S4.75.
Cattle: Accepts. 1900; steady; calves,
30 cents higher; $4.00@12.50.
Sheep: Receipts, 1.600: steady; lambs
steady to 30 cents lower; $5.00@l14O0.