, 1925-02-02
LIVESTOCK


CHICAGO. Feb. 2.-Hoxs- 100, 900
mostly Is to ,5c lower than satur.
days best time; pigs and light light
very uneven; steady to Soc lower;
top sIs.s5; bulk desirable medium
and heavy butchers $40. soQ1o.75;
most $50 to 2ao pound averages
s10.35d1o.60; 100 to 10 pound weight
S1o.0og1o.4o; most strong weight
slaughter pigs ss.50ae.75; few up.
ward to $1,000; little doing on pack.
Ing sows; heavy hogs sl0.40@lo.s5;
medium s1o.o091o.75; light Ss.5o@
sl0.5o; light light $s.o01lo.3o: pack,
ing hogs smooth $a.903le.25; pack.
ing hogs rough Ss.509$s.90; slaugh.
te pigs $s.sogI0.oo.
Cattle-Receipts %, 900; beeef steers
uneven; steady to Csc lower: mostly
weak to CSC off: lower grades show.
Ing decline: trade slow: killing quail.
lily medium to good: moderate supply
good to choice heavies offered: fresh
receipts increased by liberal hold
over from last week. early top heav-
les and yearlings 1880; some held
higher; bulk fat steers of quality
and condition TO sell at ss.oo@l0.o0;
mostly steer rum; she stock strong
to lsc higher: spots up more on bet
ter grades fat cows and light well
conditioned heIfers; bulls strong to
15c higher; heavy boiognas 400 and
better; vealers 26 10 Soc higher;
quality considered; bulk to packers
s11.00912.50; few light kind down.
ward to 5000: handy weight grad
ing good to choice $I<.0o9i5.so.
stockers and feeders firm.
Sheep-Rsceipts 10000; slow: early
sales fat lambs unevenly steady to
Csc lower: choice lambs to shippers
$l8.7561S.8b; few sales to packers
sls.oo@ls.5o; no clippers sold: fat
sheep fully 25c lower: most sales fat
ewes $s.oo@e.75; no choice offerings
sold; feeding lambs steady at $3.50
@17.75.
OMAHA. Feb. 2.-Hoes-1e,o 900;
early sales to shippers 100 15c low
er; big packers doing nothing: bulk
200 to 800 pound butchers -10.259
1880; top 5000; desirable 100 to 200
pound weights ts.7b9lo.es; better
140 and $50 pound selections $4,000
9.75: packing sows ss.so@lo.oo. bulk
Of sales tsso6lo.5o; average cost
Saturday slo.37; weight 22o.
Cattle--s.5oo; fed steers and year
lings very low: early sales steady to
weak: quality plain bulk early sales
$7.00ds.50: few upward to 1925;
other killing classes slow. about
steady: stockers and feeders active.
strong butcher ows and hsifers
$4.259T.oo. bologna bulls $4,000
4.25: practical veal top $1,000: stock.
ere and feeders s6.7507.ss: few loads
$s.oo9s.s5. Sheep-I7.50o: lambs
25q6os lower: bulk fed westerns
s17.5o917,7b; top to shippers $500
sheep strong: beat wether sli.oo;
ewes top sio.25: feeders steady; feed
ing 'ambs N6.T5@l7.4o.
DENVER. Colo. Feb. 2.-Hogs-
Receipts 1880; GENERALLY steady to
weak; bidding 30 to loo lower; top At
1866 for 23o pound weights; others
1850: bulk desirable 200 to 2es
pound averatss $685. to 1000; sew.
erai loads lighter weights $40 to
tl0.s5; packing sows and pigs steady:
bulk packing sows &s.25; few $3.50;
tat pigs $3.50.
cattle-Recsipts $500; calves 500;
beef stsers steady to Toe to i5c low
err; other killing classes around
staedy; stocksrs and feeders scarce;
few loads hsifsrs 81 to s7.25: others
1878 10 So fat cows $3.50 TO $3.50;
mixed cows and hsifsrs IS; two loads
good i,257 pound steers 1855; can
ners and cutters s2.25 TO 1925; choice
vealers 5000; medium stock heifers
IS; few stock steers se.25 down.
shesp-Rscsipts 5000; three loads
tea Texas shsarins lambs $l7.25; r
steady TO lower; bidding lower fat
lambs; practically no sheep sold
early.