The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
LIVESTOCK

EAST ST. LOUIS, III, Dee, 2.-Hogs: Receipts, 21,0O0; market active; early sales 10 to FOG higher; late and closing tone 25 to s5c higher; top. $s.9o; good heavy butchers, $9.s5; bulk, 1S0 pounds and up, $s.35@9.75; 170 to 1S0 pounds, $9.25@9.35; 140 to 16o pounds, $s.25@s.2 .25; sows, $S.50@8.75.
 Cattle: Receipts, 1000; beef steers opened steady; closed 15 to 25c lower; top yearlings, $12.40; bulk steers, $6.50@ 8.75; light yearlings andi heifers steady; top mixed yearlings, $10.50; most heifers $6.0O@7.S5; beef cows and canners, 10 to 15c lower; cows, $3.75@4.5O; canners $2.10@2.25; bologna bulls 25c lower; bulk $325@3.5O; bulk light vealers including top $9.7501o.00.
 Sheep: Receipts 5000; market steady to strong; top lambs, $14.75; bulk sales $1425@14.50; culls largely $10.50@11 .00; few sales fall clipped lambs, $13.25; bulk fat ewes, $s.000S.10.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-Cattle: Receipts 17,0O0; most killing classes moderately active early; closing slow; ragged; broad demand for yearlings; spots strong; prime kind $14; several lots $1375@13.s0; heifer yearlings up to $11.50; best weighty steers, $11; average weight 1,492 pounds; several loads heav- ies averaging 1,4700 to 1,567 pounds, $10.00@1o25; rough and less desirable weighty steers, $9.25@975; short fed but rather meaty natives, $6.75@7.25; most fed steers selling under $1O most beef heifers $4.50@6.0O; grain fed light kind, $6.5OQS.50; canners mostly $2.60@2.75; few weighty bologna bulls upward to $4.25; mostly S3.75@4.oo; vealers active closing>25c higher; packers upward to $1o; stockers and feeders slow, largely $5.00@6.5O.
 Hogs: Receipts 6s.oo0; opened fairly active, 10 to 200 higher than yester- days best price, or 15 to BOG high CT than yesterdays. opening; under weights showing 25 to BOG advance; closed dull; lower grades little changed, top '$S:a0; bulk good and choice 24O to 325-pound butchers, $950@9.8O; bulk 17O to 2O0-pound weight $9.OO@9.4O; 14O to !50-pound average largely SS.00QS.75; bulk packing sows, $S.90@9.20; majority strongweight slaughter pigs, $700@7.5O; estimated holdover 26,O0O.
 Sheep: Receipts 21,o0o; fat lambs generally steady; bulk fat natives and westerns, $15.00@15.25; top, $15.4O; fall shorn clipped. $12.25@12.50; fat sheep unchanged; bulk handyweight fat ewes, $7.76QS.50; feeding lambs steady to strong; bulk $14.25@1500; top, $1510.
 KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2.-Cattle: Re- ceipts 1A,000; calves, 5000, slow; better grades of fed steers yearlings scarce; steady to strong; short fed steers of value to sell $709; closing dull; weak to 25c lower; weighty kinds off most; bulk Ted steers and yearlings, $7.25@9.50; she stock steady; bulls dull; calves steady to strong; practical top on veals, $9; stockers and feeders slow, steady; bulk, $5.OO@6.75; lock cows and heifers dull, weak, $2.75Q4.o0; calves steady, $5.O0@ 6.75.
 Hogs: Receipts 1c,ooo; very uneven, 15 to 40c higher; bulk, $S.85@9.3O; pack ing sows mostly $8.60@SS5; stock pigs strong, $6.O0Q6.50.
 Sheep: Receipts 5000; lambs steady to strong; best fed lots $1450; natives, $l4:OOQ14.35; clippers, SIP; sheep steady; odd lots ewes downward from $S.
 LOUISVILLE. ky, Dec. 2.-Cattle: {: Receipts 200, steady; heavy steers, $7.5O gs.Oo; beef sters, $4.5O@7.50; heifers, $4.0oQ76o; cows. $2.25@5.5O; feders, $4.5O Q6:6o; stockers, $3.00Q5.50;
 Calves; Receipts 300. steady; best veals, $8.50 down; seconds, $5 down.
 Hogs: Receipts 1000; 15c higher, 175 pounds up, $965; 130 to 175 pounds, $755; pigs, $6.55 down; throwouts, $s down.
 Sheep: Receipts 100, steady. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 2.-Hogs; Receipts 6,20O, 10 to 25c higher; heavy, $9.90; packers and butchers, $9.s5@9. 30; medium. $9.00QS.25; stags, $5.OO@6.25; heavy fat sows. $$5.oo@s.5O; pigs and lights, $5@8.
 Cattle: Receipts 700, slow and steady; cows, $2.7595.O0; calves opened $1 to $1.60 higher; tops. SIP; closed $1 lower, $S@12. .}'-'
 Sheep: Receipts 300, strong: lambs strong to 50c higher, $6.00@14.5O.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 2-Cattle: Receipts 150, steady; heavy steers, $650 Q7.Oo; beef steers, $5@6; heifers, $5Q6; cows, $3.5004.50; feeders, S4.50@5. 50; stockers, $2.5OQ450.
 Hogs: Receipts 600; hogs, heavy pigs and throwouts, 15c higher; 1sO pounds and up, $9.65; 135 to 180 pounds, $s.15; heavy pigs, $74o; light pigs, $6.75; throwouts, $s.O5 down.