Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-30
Cattle Steady, Hog
Price Off; Market
Generally Slow
BY L. C. GRUNDELAND
Ueascd Wine Service to Tie Journal.


Copyright, 1921
UNION STOCK YARDS, Chicago, Aug.
ga light supply Of cattle arrived at tie
hogs and sheep on hand than expected
Less than. 400 cattle were received by
big killers from other trading points,
while about % cars of westerns We're
ported. After strong hog market ca4'y
in the week, values were cut today Mole
than 5000 were held over from he
previous session and sellers did not hay.
anything direct frols other trading points
Less than 1000 lan@ were forwarded to
Zig killers.
Receipts were 1lO00 cattle IS, 900 hogs;
rs, 1000 sheep. and 1000 calves.
Choice steers sold at $I3.1o and the
market was generally steady for all lots
showing good quality. Medium and plai
heifcrs sold slowly. but there was no
change in quotations. Gamers went at
$2.75@3.00 for the best, while bologna
bulls were placed at s. for large lots
was slow, even for good lots late in the
day.
but other kinds showed decline of 20
cents in many cases. Choice lots went over
at 1910, but plain packing stock sold be
taken at a$9:o0@o.10, while good piss
Sc, sold at $8.5q@S.75 on 1O@15e lower
Fat lambs a~1in sold 15@2Jc lower,
with good westerns at $685.. while choice
natives stopped a. $1,000. Feeding LAMBS
dropped 50c Gull lambs sold about steady
muttons were again taken at unchanged
IricH levels.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 29.-CattIe. re-
ceIpts, 800, slow and steady; heavy steers,
$S25m9.00; beef steers, s5.00@8.O0 heifers,
S5.00@850; cows, s: 00M I. 90; feeders, $500
@7;25; stockers, 81: 50m Go.
Hogs, receipts loo; steady; 49, pounds
i2o down. 81 40; thTowoUts s. 90 down. ms
Sheep, LOO, steady; lambs, $11.00@12. so:
sheep. SO. 50@y5 so.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 29-Hogs; Re
ceipts, $500; steady. Heavy. $S.5009.50;
packers and butchers. 1918; medium, S9.7J
heavy fat sows, $5.G0@7 %; pigs and lights,
Sc 00M9.JO.
Cattle-Receipts. GOO good killing classes,
steady; others very slow: calves, weak.
slow and steady
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Aug. o9.-United
States Department Of Agriculture. Hogs.
1000; slow, mostly lower; top, $500, out
to 220-pound averages, $9.35@9.5O; go to
240-pound butchers, $9.15M9.2 80: go to 3Os
pounds, $8.90@9 10; pigs and packer sows,
l lit 60 changed; bulk good weight pigs $3.50
M9.00; packer soWs, $7.00M7.25.
Cattle: Receipts, 5000; native beef
steers and medium beef cows. slow: western
steers, fat COWS and other classes, steady:
western steers, $G.75@ 10; light yearlings,
S s. :'3a2. 80; bologna bulls $8.75@4,5o;
light veaIers, $10.00011. co.
Sheep; Receipts, $500: fat lambs most
ly 21c lower; culls and sheep. unchanged:
top to butchers, S14.S0; top and bulk to
packers, $1,000; culls. $50; few good light
ewes around $500; heavies. $500; choice
light killing ewes .quotable at IS 90
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 29.-United
States Department of Agriculture.-C
Receipts. $4,000; calves, 5000: better
grades beef steers and yearlings fully
steady; other steers and westerns slow and
weak: early top beef steers, 1925: some
held around S12.75; mixed yearlings, $l1 80;
averaging 500 pounds; she stock slow, most
ly steady; bulk beef cows, $3.75M5.25: can
ners and cutters. $2.10@3.2j bulls steady:
bolognas, $3.T50l400: calves steady to
weak; practical top, $3.50: desirable stock
erS and feeders. steady: others lower; early
bulk feeders, $71009.50
Hogs: Receipts, 12,000 weak to 1Oc
lower to shippers; top, $3.50: bulk of
sales, $S.20@SSJ; few bids by packers.
10 TO 15c lower; desirable $50 to 280-pound
averages. SS.G5@S.85; packing sows mostly
So. 75Gt 7.25; stock pigs Strong; bulk 81 .0O61
$50: few a $3.50.
Sheep: Receipts, 5000; native lambs to
killers and range lambs to feeders steady
to weak westerns to feeder buyers, $1295GG
1900; killers bidding sharply lower on other
range offerings, top natives, $3.50; better
grades mostly $11.75M12.50; sheep 2Jc to
soc lower; 111-pound range ewes, $3.50.