Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-17
Light Live Stock Run
Opens Week; Demand
Fair; Prices Steady
BY L. c. GRUNDELAND
(Leased Wire Service to The JournaIJ
Copyright, 1929

Copyright, 1929
UNION STOCK YARDS, Chicago, April
| l6.-After slow and somewhat lower mar
ket for all kinds Of live stock last week.
tho rms were comparatively light today
AT ten big markets the totals also showed
small figures. Only one load of cattle was
received by big killers from other trading
noints today, while 500 hogs and about
| ) 900 sheep and lambs came that way.
Sellers had only $500 hogs held over from
last week and the trade was little higher
here from the start.
Receipts we're 81, 900 cattle, $1,000 hogs
20, 600 sheep and 1000 calves.
Cattle trade was generally steady after
somewhat slow start. Prime heavy steers
were in good demand as few were on sale
Some choice stock went over at $lo.oO@
1Oo5, while bulk Of beef steers sold at
SIS. 4O6S6O Demand was in fax shape
for cows and 'heifers and values were steady.
Good bologna bulls sold at $4.75@5OO, with
canning cows at $3.00@3.40 for good lots
Calves were steady but few choice lois
were on hand.
Values were higher in the hog house
from the start Most Of the good light
hogs sold at an advance of 1Oc from the
closing levels of last week, with strictly
prime lots at $S.5O@S.6O Big killers were
again slow to show up, but there was a
fair demand from shippers and yard trad-
ers. Some rough packing hogs SOLD pelOW
81. 90. The trade was anywhere from DC
to 10c higher.
Lambs sold about like the close Of last
week. Choice wool lots went over at Sl4.oo.
Fall shorn lambs made $500, while export
buyers paid $10.00@10.25 for heavy ANIMALS.
Aged muttons again held without change
The run was light.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 16-Cattle:
Receipts 2,OOO; beef steers uneven; most
y steady to higher; early top, $3.50; some
held higher; other sales $7.1O@9.2o; fat
she stock steady to strong; better grades
cows. $6.50@7O0; good yearling heifers,
SIS. 90: all other classes steady; Gamers
largely around $2.75; cutters mostly $500
@4.5O; bologna bulls largely, $4;oO04.o3;
bulk vealesr to packers, $7.O0@S.OO; odd
lots to outsiders, $500 up; second cuts,
S.. 000600 common to good stockers, $50
@7.S0; good feeders, $500.
Hogs-Receipts 1900; little doing; a few
$50 to 27O-pound average to shippers at
$500 and $S.2J, or &c to Zoe higher; trader
top, $3.50; bulk of sales, $S,000S.25; pack
ers holding back, talking lower; packing
15@2oc higher; bulk, $7.OO@7.25; few at
$40.
generally 10c to 15c higher: top wooded
pers, $1O.S5@11.5O; shorn wethers. $500
@S.50.
EAST ST. LOUIS, April 16.-United
States Department of Agriculture. )-Cattle:
Receipts 5000: general market steady to
strong; top steers, s9.15. Bulks follow:
Steers, $7.60@S.75 yearlings, $7.00@8.00;
cows, $5.50M6.50: Gamers $3.00@3.25:
stocker steers, $7.6J@775; light calves,
| IS. 00MS.50.
Hogs-Receipts, 1850; light hogs gener-
ally steady; medium weights and heavies
unevenly Zoe to 25c higher; top, $3.50: bulk
INN
| to 260 pounds, $S.40MS.50; 250 pounds and
up, SS.1jMS.40; pigs unchanged bulk de-
sirabe ITO to 130pound averages, S7.25M
| 500 packer sows, strong; bulk, $4,000
| 100.
Shcep-Receipts. l 1000: no wool lambs
| offered; clipped lambs, steady; load to
| butchers, $12.00; balance largely $11.75; fat
| sheep steady: one load to butchers, $1,000;
balance largely $11.75; fat sheep, steady;
| $S.2J paid for good 96-pound clipped Weth-
| ers; best light ewes quoted at $4,000 90.
CINCINNATI, April 16.-Hogs: Receipts
| $500: active. steady to 1Oc lower; heavies,
! $S.75@ $50; packers and butchers, $3.50;
heavy fat sows, $600@7.OO; pigs and
| lights, $6.00@S.40; stays, $4.0005.00.
Cattle-Recepts 100; steers and light
cows steady; heifers and heavy cows weak
| 15c to PC lower; steers, S4.5O@ 800; heif-
ers, $4.00@9.00; cows, $3.O0@6.50; calves,
good steady, medium and common SOC to
$1.O0 higher; $j.00G10.00.
| Sheep-Receipts %; steady, $3.0006.50;
| sheared, $1.50M 800; lambs steady, $7,00M
14.5o: sheared, $5.00M11.25; spring, $1,000
| $4,000.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 16.-Cattlc, L.
600; active, steady: heavy steers, $1,000
| SO: beef steers. $1,000 %; hefers $3.50
MS.25; COWS, $2.Go6lG50; feeders, $G00M
| 7.25; Stockers. S3.G0m6.15.
Hogs. 1900; Toe higher; 1G5 pounds up
| $3.50: 120 to 100 pounds, $7.95; 80 to 40
pounds 500; 90 pounds down. $500;
throwouts, $500 down.
Sheep, 80; steady; faIl lambs, $500;
| sheen sc 90 dnMr -