Evening star., 1938-07-24
best ripe stock is bringing 35a50 half
bushel and poorer supplies selling. as
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best ripe stock is bringing 35a50 half
bushel and poorer supplies selling as
low as 20
Other Items Decrease.
Other items showed decreases at
the following quotations:
Carrots. la2 bunch; corn, 10al3
dozen for sugar and 5a8 for field;
cucumbers. 20a30 half bushel, and
peppers 30a50 half bushel. The mar
ket was practically the same on other
nearby stock, at the following quota
tions:
Snap beans, 50a65 bushel: beets. la
~ bunch cabbage, loa25 bushel and
eggplant, 75a85 half-bushel.
Most branches of the local livestock
market were dull during the week and
this was considered a direct reflection
of sluggish movement Of dressed prod
uct into consumptive channels, &C
Economics Of the Department of
Agriculture. The few granted steers
available sold to fairly good advantage,
but bulk of that class was graSsers, on
which prices worked at weak to Is
lower rates. She-stock was under
pressure and ruled mostly 25 to so
lower than close last week, with low
cutter cows only weak to Is off. Bulls
sold little easier. This weeks vealer
prices were mostly so lower and the
undergrades ruled very dull at the
decline. Some unevenness in hog
price trend left weights from $50
pounds down mostly 10 to IS lower,
heavier butchers and packing sows OFF
IS to 25 Fat lamb prices lost Is and
the throwouts mostly so and there was
dull demand for any grading under
good.
Weeks Top Monday.
On Thursday bulk of steers were
medium and good grass fat offerings
weighing 1850 to 1900 pounds that
sold 850a985, a small lot OF good
1903 pound grainfeds at 1000 Weeks
top was paid Monday for six head of
choice granted 825-pound yearlings
and 10 head of 1905 pound long year.
lings, both at 1925 Plain and low
medium grades of lightweight grass
steers were quite numerous at 6.75a
8,25. Most plain and medium grade
slaughter heifers went 600s800, one
carload of good 90Q-pound average
$40. Odd head of good grade beef
cows sold up to TOO, bulk of plain and
medium grade fat cows, 550a650 and
low cutter and cutter grades mostly
4.00a525. Emaciated cows sold down
to 800 per hundredweight. Plain and
medium grade bulls bulked 600a7.00
and some few fat butcher offerings
reached 7.50 or above.
On the opening session $50 top
was paid for good grade vealers, but
the market sagged so on the following
day and top after Monday was 900.
Good grades for the week bulked $50
a80O and light Gull kinds as low as
500.
Hog Trade Steady.
Fridays hog trade was steady with
Thursday all through the list and at
those rates the good and choice grade
l40 to 200 pound weights cleared
l0.30a10.50, practical top pegged at
1880. Bulk of 2l0 to 240 pound
averages went 9.s5a1O.20; $50 to 800
pound, s25a985; 120 to 140 pound
slaughter pigs, s80alO.20; good pack
ing sows, 400 pounds up, mostly 1854
1855; best lightweight sows to $40
Stays were quoted 100 down. Hogs
from doubtful areas and those fat
tened on garbage or swill are not rep
resented in the prices.
Good and choice grade eve and
wether lambs were mostly 70 to 80
pound averages that bulked 925a9 SO,
weeks top of 9.75 paid early in the
period and peak price at midweek
and later $50. Fat buck lambs sold
at the usual 100 discount. Some sales
Of plain and medium grade springers
were noted mostly 600a325 and some
mixed lots of medium and good offer
ines around 800. Lightweight Gull
lambs dropped as low as 500 per hun
dredweight. Only few slaughter
ewes came to hand and sold at steady
rates. Good weighty ewes cleared 800
a3.50 and some old thin offerings
| 1,0Oa200.