The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-21
LIVE STOCK


 CHICAGO, March 20.-Cattle: Re- ceipts. 12.0o0; better grades fat steers and yearlings around steady; others mostly 10c to 15c lower; spots off more; top matured steers, $12.00: numerous loads handy weights and medium weight. $10.75G11.50: bulk fat steers, $S.00@10.25; few yearlings up to $10.25; fat she-stock, canners and cutters, slow, around steady; bulk fat cows, $45o@ 6.60; koshers upward to $7.50 and above; bulls slow, mostly 10c to 15c loweri bulk weighty bolognas, $490@ 4.95; vealers around steady; bulk desir- able handy weights to packers, $950@ 1000; selected kind upward to $11.50 and above, mostly to outsiders; light vealers downward to $50; stockers and feeders slow; demand narrow; prices unchanged.
 Hogs: Receipts, 42,000; opened slow, Dc to 10c lower than yesterdays aver age; closed very active, mostly steady with yesterdays best time; bulk good and choice ed60 to 325-pound average, $7.30@7.50; top, $750; latter price paid by all interests freely; desirable 140 to 150-pound weight largely $7.O0@7.25; bulk packing sows. $6.5096.s0; killing pigs strong to 25c higher; bulk desira- ble strong weights, $6.25d6.75; esti- mated holdover 10000.
 Sheep: Receipts, 13000; best fat lambs steady; few sales 15c to 25c low CT; sheep steady to strong; feeding and shearing lambs steady; bulk fat wooded lambs, $15.75@16.60; top, $16.75; good and choice clipped lambs. $14.00@14.75; some 106-pound yearling wethers, $14.50; best lightweights, $15.25; choice fat ewes, $11.00;i bulk fleshy kind, $10.50@ 11.25; feeding and shearing. lambs, $15.25@16.00.
 EAST ST. LOUIS. H., March 2o.- Cattle-Reeeipts, 15,O0O. Beef steers, strong; beef cows, steady to strong; bologna bulls, 15c to 25c lower; light vealers, top, SHE'S; bulk, $11; other classes. steady; top steers, $1O; bulk, $7.2697.86; top mixed yearlings, $9.50; bulk, $7.65@7.75; most cows, $4.76@ 6.25; bologna bulls. largely $4.50@5; no stocker steers sold.
 Hogs-Receipts. 12,0OO. General hog market active, steady; bulk good qual- ity ITO pounds and up, S7.50@7.60 pigs, 15c to 25c higher at $6.50@7 for most CT sows, $6,4oG66o.
 Sheep-Receipts. 5000. Medium to good wooded lambs, $16, steady; choice kinds, lacking; good clippers, $14; sheep, strong; $11 for good light fat ewes.
 LOUISVILLE. Ky. March 2o.-Cat- tle-Receipts. 100. Active and strong; heavy steers. $8Q9i beef steers, $5@ s.T5; heifers. $5Qs.5O: cows, $3.5006.50 feeders, $4.5QQ6.50; stockers, S2.5O05.75 . Hogs-Receipts, 1900. Steady to 15c lower; 165 pounds up, $770; 12O to 165 pounds. $6.so; pigs. $4.55@5.3O; throw outs. $5.50 down.
 sheep.s55o; steady; lambs. SIP; choice, $13@14.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 2O.-Cat- tle-Receipts, 100. Steady; heavy steers, $7.5o9S.25;s beef steers, $7Qs.25; heifers, $6.25@7.5o; cows, $5.25@6.5O; feeders, $4.5o96,50; stockers, $25O@5. heavy hogs, 15c lower; POO pounds and up, $7.75; 165 to 200 pounds. $7.65; 130 to 165 pounds, $6.95; pigs, $4.60@5 .S5; throwouts, $5.60 down.
 Sheep-Nominal. Fat sheep, $6@7; choice lambs, $1O@12.
 CINCINNATI, O., March 2O.-Hogs- Receipts, 5000. Steady to 200 lower; heavy, $7.50Q7.90; packers and butchers, T.90; medium, $7.9O.
 Cattle-Receipts, 500. Steady; calves, steady; medium and common, unevenly lower.
 sheep-Receipts. s25. Steady; lambs, steady.
 KANSAS CITY, March 20.-CattIe; Receipts, $500; calves, 800; beef steers mostly steady; fed steers, $s.3O@9.60; mixed yearlings, $9.75; she-stock steady; beef cows, mostly, $4.5096.25; bulls dull; calves strong; practical top veals, $9.50; ; stockers and feeders dull, weak to low CT; bulk, $6.2597.50.
 Hogs: Receipts, 1000; steady to Bc lower; bulk of sales, $7.O0@7.25; packing sows. mostly, $6.25Q6.35; stock pigs steady, $5.4065.S5.
 Sheep: Receipts, 4,OoO; killing classes generally steady; top wooded lambs to shippers. S16.35; shorn offerings to mack