The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-16
LIVE STOCK

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 15.-Cattle:
Receipts, r1z5; steady. Heavy steers, s7.7s
@s.so; beef steers. s7.250s.bo; heifers, 81
as; cows. s4%7: feeders, $4.5o@s.5o;
stocksrs. ss.so0A.
Hogs: Receipts 500; medium and heavy
hogs, 10c lower; 400 pounds and up. SIsS |;
1s5 to 200 pounds. S7:5s; ls9 to 40
sheep: NOMINAL fat sheep, 1907;
choice lambs. s1o@l2.
CINCINNATI O.. April r5.-Hogs: Re-
ceipts, $500; steady to 1oc lower Heavy.
Sc; packers and butchers IS; me-
dunn IS.
cattle: receipts. 400; steady. Calves.
weak to Soc lower. $4@12.
shsep:a9 Receipts. 200; steady. Lambs,
springers weak; others steady.
,LoUtsTfLLE, KY. April 15.-cattIe:
Receipts. goo; steady Heavy steers. IS o
8; beef steers, $5@e.75: heIfers. S56s75;
cows. $3.50 $3.50; feeders, s4'5O@7; stock
lower;' 1ss pounds up. $3.50; 100 to 1sS
pounds. 81; pigs. $4.e505,SS; throw-outs,
$3.50 down.
Sheep: Receipts so; steady; fall lambs,
S14@1s; sheep. sos.
CHICAGO, April 1b.-Cattle: Receipts,
10, 900; beef steers and fat she-stock clos
ing fairly active, tully steady with yes
terday's decline; less desirable killing
quality and fairly liberal water fills con-
sIdered; top matured steers, $12.S5: aver
age weight. 1906 pounds: few loads
load. slL6O; few above $1,000; bulk fed
steers and ,yearlings, ss5o@10.75; little
carrying much weight under 300 to kill
ers; most fat cows. $525@I25; beef hei-
70 IL rOalU
logna bulls. s5'2s; light Kind downward to
$466 and below; veal calves. after slow.
weak start closing about steady; bulk.
Hogs: Receipts, 10000: market uneven.
steady to Toe lower; desirable offerings
showing less decline; lower grade light
weights &c to loo Off bulk good and
choice $50 to 325 pound butchers. $Z45@
1850; top, 1888; better grades, 160 to 225
pound weight largely $7.35@7.5G; good
and choice 40 to $50 pound average most
100; killing pigs 25c lower: bulk good
and choice strong weights, $500 @ so; es-
timated holdovsr $4,000.
Sheep; Receipts, $4,000: fat lambs un-
even; generally steady to. shade lower;
handy weight clipped lambs strong: fat
sheep steady to csc lower: clipped kind
showing most decline; bulk fat wooded
lambs. $3.50 @1e.25; top. s1s,4o; bulk
wooded ewes, $1,000; clipped kind 1880
1000; bulk spring lambs around $500;
few lots, $4,000 421.00.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. April 15.-cat-
tie: Receipts, 1900; beef steers, csc low
er: spots down more; top steers SIPS:
bulk. $7.s5@1o.o0; light yearlings ana
heifers weak to 25c lower; bulk, $1,000
s.20: strictly choice beef cows. steady
other grades, 10 to 25c lower; bulk, So 90
Q6.25; top, 1915: Gamers and bulls
steady at sass $500; light vealers $3.50
q 1900 stocker steers, steady; range
t6.z5@7.s0.
Sheep: Receipts 1000: market SOC low
ere closed so TO 75c lower on sheep and
lambs: no good Randyweight wool lambs
on ssales choice lambs, $500; medium
to good wool lambs s14.75@150O; clipped
lambs: slS,0OQ13,75k one load, $14.25
good IAN shorn 2Tyear-old and aged gweth-
ers. $ll.90; good woolN yearlings $3.50;
bulk fat ewes, $1l.000l1.6O
Hogs: Receipts, $4,000: fairly active
mostly To- to 15c lower; pigs weak to orc
lower; 'Iee to 130-pound pigs $6.O0@6.T5;
packer sows. $500 $50.