Evening star., 1932-10-17
LIVE STOCK PRICES
SHOW MIXED TREND
Sheep and Lambs Are Only
4 Glasses to Register
Strength in Week.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Sheep and lambs alone of all the
live stock offered on the IL principal
markets showed any indication Of
strength this week.
Fat steer and long yearling prices
continued to wear away and generally
the downturn was about Is cents all
through the list. According to the
weekly review of the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics the trade was very
uneven, and while strictly choice year.
lings probably did not show the loss,
medium and good kinds were as much
as so cents lower in instances and q
similar downturn featured the market
on plain weighty bullocks at Chicago.
Market Under Pressure.
The run comprised steers and long
yearlings for the most part. Finished
weighty bullocks again were relatively
scarce, but there was a fairly large sup
ply of in-between grades-and a few
too many of all kinds in view of slack
Eastern shipper demand and the eau
tious attitude of killers. All interests
drove q steam roller and, while some
grades and representative weights OF
cattle were hattened out more than
Others everything was under pressure.
Continued slowness in the dressed
beef market together with liberal runs
of short fed and the late. crop OF rela-
lively long fed steers provided the weak
ening factor.
There were too many steers. hence too
much beef This increased supply could
not be readily moved, so the slowness
naturally echoed back into the live
market, tending to further debate a
trade that for months has been rela-
lively high compared with all COM
modities. .,,t
Most fat steers now are selling $6 to
$3.50 at Chicago, new low levels on the
recent decline The extreme top for
, the week was $8.85. Best weighty bull
locks topped $3.50, these being feed-lot
mates Of $40 steers early last week and
5000 offerings two weeks ago.
From the high time OF the season
three or four weeks ago, strictly good
and choice yearlings are at least u
lower at Chicago.
The general hog price level, the De-
partment Of Agriculture review said.
did not change greatly weights above
40 pounds finishing about steady with
@ week ago, while lighter weights
gained Is to Is cents.
An unsatisfactory fresh pork trade
was bearish factor until toward the
close of the week. when some price i'm
DrOVemenG SET III 10 IdCllltdlc tllc IIlONC-
ment of live hogs.
Receipts Light.
Aggregate receipts continued light.
the u big markets recording but 300,-
600 head, as compared with $4,000 for
the same four days a year ago. One
OF the features Of the run at Chicago
was the scarcity of choice pigs and to
q lesser degree light lights The big
end of the offerings consisted OF 180
to $50 pound weights, with a decreas-
ing supply Of heavier weights. The
number of packing sows has dropped
materially the last two weeks. but the
demand also has narrowed.
The weeks top Of 81 was paid on
Monday and the peak later receded to
S385.
Fat lambs went up too fast, dressed
conditions and price relationship With
other markets considered. At Chicago
the rising trend was more forcibly illus
trated on native lambs than on western.
packers paying Sc freely on the high
time whereas last week practically
nothing sold above s5.25 on similar &C
count. e-