The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-05
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 NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 4.-Cattle: l: Receipts, S00 Steady: Heavy steers, ST 07.50; beef steers, $5.60@6; heifers, $6 Q650; cows, $5@6; feeders, $5.50Q6.50; | stockers, $3.50@5.
 Hogs: Receipts, 200. Light, medium and heavy hogs and throwouts were 50c higher; pigs, 50c lower: Medium and heavy hogs, $10.25@10.50; light hogs, $925@s.50; pigs, s6 down; throwouts, $7.75' down.
 Sheep: Receipts, 100. Steady: Choice spring lambs, $10012; seconds, $5.500 $50; cull lambs, $3.5004.50; choice fat sheep, $3.50@4,50; medium sheep, $203; cull sheep, s1 down; bucks, s2.50 down.
 EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Aug, 4-Hogs: Receipts, $500. Opened 35c to 40c high CT and closed S5c to soc higher; top, $10.50; for good light and medium weights; bulk good 160 to 250-pound averages, hs$10925@ @a0.4Qsie best heavies, $10.15 Q10.25; desirable light lights, S10 @10.40; best killing pigs, $9.75Q10; packer sows were mostly $s.25.
 Cattle: Receipts, 5000. Western steers, 25c lower; top veaIers, $9; bulk, $s; other classes, steady, with 1ow-priced grass heifers hard to move; few loads of native steers at sSQ10; bulk westerns, $6.2507.70; small lots of light yearlings
 
 $495.25; canners, $2Q2.25; bulls, S4.259 4.75.
 Sheep: Receipts, 5000, Fat lambs, steady; top, SIS; bulk, s12.75Q13; culls, weak to 50c lower at S6.50@7; sheep, steady; bulk light killing ewes, $50 $50; heavies, $s.5o@4.
 CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Cattle: Receipts, 10000. Fat steer trade was very un- aa1T rad al nd n 25c lower; mostly 15c to 25c off; weighty kind showed most decline; moderate supply unsold at noon; yearlings were comparatively scarce; light kind, fully steady; top n1atured steers, $11.65; next highest price was SLIGO; long year lings, $11; light youngsters, $1O.9O; 27 loads of Montana grassers at $7.40@ 7.65 for horned and dehorned, respec- lively; 10 loads of Texas weighty cake feds at $9.50;, stocxers and feeders were scarce and firm; most other killing classes were steady to strong, vealers closing 25c lower; bulk, $909.50 to packers; few at $9.75@10; outsiders, up- ward to $10.50 and above.
 Hogs: Receipts, 34.o00. Generally 25c to 50c higher. Desirable grades showed full advance; slaughter pigs and light lights, Soc to 75c higher; top, $10.40; bulk good and choice 160 to 240-pound weights, $1010@10.35; better 250 to 350- pound butchers, $9.75@10.20; good and choice TAO to 160-pound kinds, $975Q 10; packing sows, $s.50@s90; strong weight killing pigs, $9.2509.50. Esti- mated holdover, 17,000.
 Sheep: Receipts, 27,O00. Fat lambs were uneven and steady to 25c lower; bulk fat native lambs, $12.75@13.25; sorting more severe; culls, $S.5o09; bulk range lambs, $13.60@13.90; top, $13.90; sheep, steady; choice range ewes to killers, $7.75; odd lots of fat native ewes, $5.50@7; most sales of feeder lambs at $125O@12.75; steady.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 4-Cattle: Receipts, 1900. Best grades were steady; others were slow: Heavy steers, $808.50; beef steers, $60s.25; heifers, $5@s; cows, $S@6; feeders, $5@7; stock
 Hogs: Receipts, 2,2OO. Fifty cents higher: 165 pounds and up, $10.25; 120 to 1e5 pounds, $s.O5; pigs, $6.25; throw outs, $7.75 down.
 Sheep: Receipts, 3,s00 Steady: Top lambs, $13.25; choice, $13.5o.
 CINCINNATI. O.. Aug. 4.-Hogs: Re- ceipts, 2,600. Fifty cents higher: Heayies, SLOTS; packers and butchers $10.75; mediums, $10.25Q1O.50; stags $5.60@6.50; heavy fat sows $6@S.50; pigl and lights, s5Q1o.
 Cattle: Receipts, 225O. Fat classes were steady; plain and common classes slow and weak: Steers, S409.25; heifers $4Qs; cows, $2.75QS; calves were steady Sheep: Receipts. 300. Lambs, steady