The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-24
WEEKLY INDIANAPOLIS
LIVESTOCK REVIEW
FOR WEEK ENDING THURSDAY,
Dec. %
By U. S. Dept. of Agriculture

There was not enough let up in hog
marketing during the past week to alter
the local situation materially. Supplies
were consider bly, Jess than for last week,
but shipping demand was correspondingly
abbreviated and most of the daily mar
ketings went into packers hands. Shippers
total offering. With the exception of last
Friday. when ightweights reached S3.45,
the top price held closely to $500, S3.25
and $3.50 and the period closed with net
loss of no more than 5 cents.
For the first four days of this week.
weights from 100 to 225 pounds, bulked
to 200 pounds on top; 225 to 275 pounds, 50
d3.15; 275 up, S2.90d305. On Monday and
Tuesday packing sows cleared from $40
to S2.75, but later sessions uncovered full
25-cent decline with most closing trans
actions from 81 to $3.50.
Todays schedule follows: 100 to 200
pounds. SO .25; top $3.50; 200 to 2l0 poundss,
$500, 210 to 225 pounds, sails; 225 TO ESQ
pounds $40; $50 to 275 pounds, s3.05: 275
to 300 pounds, 60: 300 to 400 pounds. S2.95,
packing sows, s2Q2.50.
Cattle
Those interests who have endeavored
through advice and other efforts to halt
the recent deluge Of cattle we're amply re-
warded this week. Supplies as a whole
we're little more than half of last week S
volume, but large part Of this advantage
was Offset by seasonal lassitude in the
dressed meat centers due in part to sub
stitution of poultry and game products.
With coolers reasonably full and demand
at low eb6 most packers were content TO
fill out broken lines and take advantage
Of the slight respite afforded by abridged
marketings.
Prices on all classes hardened from day
to day and all CLASSES closed at noticeably
higher levels, Beef steers advanced 3
COWS around Is cents with the possible
exception of extremely low grades. Light
and medium weight steers constituted most
of the supply in that section, and the bet
~
SOS. top yearlings s6.75. Lower grades
cashed from $3.50 to S4.75 with consider
able showing from 81 to $3.50 Two loads
Of contract" cattle went over the scales
a 81, and few yearlings cleared on the
open market at the same figure.
Although Jew small lots of desirable
heifers realized $3.50 to s6.75. the week s
offerings we're mainly Of the $3.50 to s5.25
variety with several loads at IS and s5.25.
As usual thin dairy heifers went down to
So and below. Beef cows sold early from
50 to s2.75, but closed the period in a s2.25
TO 81 spread with the latter a practical ton
on the available supply; Low cutters and
cutters bulked from 81 to 81
Vealers top dropped from $3.50 to IS last
Monday and prices have been reasonab bly,
constant since that time in spite OF some
EFFORT to reduce the price level. For the
first four days Of the current week good
and choice vealers cashed from IS 10 S.
usually $3.50 to Sc. with the most common
ana medium grades from $3.50 to $3.50.
Sheep
Pre-holiday marketing OF lambs was
considerably below last weeks volume and
hardly sufficient for trade requirements
Normal and sometimes rather urgent COM
petition boosted prices IS to so cents in
series on constantly strengthening mar
kets. Starting from a Sc top last Thurs
DAY 25-cent advance Friday moved il to
Sb-Z5. which was retained Saturday. An
other dime was added Monday a nickel
Tuesday and a dime Wednesday. terminate
ing IN an outside quotation of $3.50.
since Monday most good ewes and
Wethers, including fed westerns, bulked
around S625. some lacking a little finish at
So. and several strictly choice offerings
caSned at S6.35 and $40. with an extreme
Top OF $3.50 Some unsorted and weighty
natives cleared from S5.25 to S5.75. Bucks
when sorted on usually sold 81 under the
prevailing price for eve and wethers Com
sometimes less Mo7k. tat ewes caShed
from. 81 n, 81 q