—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 25. 1959 Chicago GaHte
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At Lancaster Yards
Slaughter Steers
James E. O'Hara.
In Charge. Market News Branch
APRIL 24, 1959
"WEEKLY REVIEW—
This week the supply o£
slaughter steers amounted to
about 45 per cent and Stock
ers and feeders 45 per cent
■of the run. This week’s count
win be about 1000 head less,
than last week’s 5450 head
count.
Trading was moderately
active for all classes except
slaughter steers on Mon. these
were slow. Compared with
last week’s close slaughter
steers were highly uneveij
hut averaging about steady.
Cows closed mostly 23 high
er. Bulls held steady. Stock
ers and feeders were steady
to 1 higher with most of the
advance on stockers weigh
ing under 700 lb.
The bulk of choice daugh
ter steers sold for 29 75-33.50
several loads and lots aver
age to higher choice scaling
1213-1293 lb. made 33-34. a
load mostly prime weighing
T 293 lb. sold at 34.50. Good
to low choice steers brought
126.75-30- Good and choice
heifers made 25 50-28.75. Uti
lity and coml. bulls ranged
from 23-26, while good grade
led bulls managed 25.75 -
27.50
Ctter and utility cows sold
between 17.75 - 22 with
coml. cows going up to 23.25
Canners and low cutters ma
de 16-17,75. Good and choice
800-1050 lb. feeder steersl
ranged from 28 00-30 50. me
dium and good grade' made
26.50-28 25. Good and choi
ce 550-800 lb. stock steers
sold from 30-36.50, medium
and good .stockers brought 28-
30.25. Good grade stock .cal
ves made 31-36, a part load
choice 400 lb. calve made 38.
Trading was active for ab
out 625 head of vealers. Vea
lers sold mostly 1 higher.
Good and choice vealers ma
de 30-39 and choice and pri
me commanded 39-42, stand
ard and low good made 25-
29 while utility sold down to
20.
For the third consecutive
week, receipts in the hog di
vision will total more than
Qliality &
210 ft head. This week the PriTG
supply will be about 75 head ■ IIC© V/ll
Advance
less than last week's 2181 WEEKLY review-,
head count. Trading was mod r-A~*rr „ .
erately active. Barrows and , CATTLE- Receipts about
e4lt« -ni.p r p osc/i lower Snw4 15 per cent smaller than last
Sd sTeadv to l lower week when supplied . were
\ _ largest in five weeks and ful-4
Quality of the hutchersl j y 15 p er ce nt smaller than
wag. poor after Mon. U.S. 1-3 the corresponding week last
grade 190-22 S lb. barrovwi-year. Non-slaughtering %hsw
and gilts made 17-17.50, 1-2 jgh Holidays a major 'factor
grade lots were absent after ] n the supply reduction. :
Mon. but early in the week „ „ „„ , _ , .
1-2 grade 200-215 lb. butch- Fully 70 per cent slaughter
ere made 18-tS.TS, with a few «*«». between 15 and 20 per
lots mostly No. I at 10-19.50 cent heifers and 7 per cent
230 - 250 lb. hogs sold for cows, percentages of the
16.50-17 25. 300-600 lb. sows various classes not much dif
rnade 10-14 ferent than last week. Only
- c il„ o kx„w , om u s __ around 3 per cent of the ste
counted6 for S ner er supply prime, smallest for
<*nt of the supply to tho gw
S? luUy 4^psfceut
totsi 3DOUI 300 COIH. oipapc sfcf
pared with 234 head last wk. e s last
Compared with last week’s nf
dose vooled slaughter lam
bs held steady. Soring lambs £ks average of
were mostly 1 higher. Good g|s ibf anfli rtrtSfcfe? anv
and choice wooled lambs ma- since tost October Av^
de 21.75-23.50. utility and Y r lf e orice of stou
low good made 1975-21x75 Jlers wiLl be leL than
Good and choice lb. of 29 69
spring lambs sold at 29-32, wWcIT was toe highest for
A few lots good grade down “JJf
Slaughter steers opened
, , * steady to fully 1 lower but
The 1959 early spring po- closed only steady to .50 low
tato crop is now forecast by cc than late tost week, vir
the Crop Reporting Board at dually ail of the downward
3.643.000 cwt. for the United
States. This would' be 23 per slowest to sell. At
cent less than the 1958 crop,, game time, heifers ad
but mne per cent more than vanced fully 50, Cows scored
average. Production of winter gains of 50-75,and bulls clo
crop potatoes, estimated at sed 50-1 higher. Vealersheld
3.874.000 cwt. is 22 per cent steady until late when prices
below 1958 and six per cent declined 1-2 owing to Kosher
less than the 1849-57 aver- Holidays. Stockers and feed-
ers slow but mostly steady.
8 ' , , . . Steer and heifer beef carcas-
The acreage of late spring ses the Chicago wholesale
potatoes for harvest in 1959 m eat trade sold steady to 50
Is placed at 137,300 acres.' higher and cow beef advan-
Tliis would be 17 per cent bei ced 1.
low the ‘5B harvested acreage' Better than a dozen loads
and 26 per cent below aver- choice to mostly prime 1175-
age. 1400 lb. slaughter steers 35-
36, 5 loads 36, loadlots High
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Receipts on. Thursday’s
beef market totaled 735 cat
tle and 238 calves. Steer mar
ket very brisk with all clas
ses from 50-1 higher, instan
ces more than $1 higher. Bull
market very active, all kinds
except bologna bulls from
50-75 higher. _£ow market
very strong with all kinds 1
or more higher. Calf market
$l-2 higher on all kinds ex
cept choice and prime grades
Prone hatcher steers—s 32-
33.75; choice —3O-32; good
-28 50-30; plain-med.—26
28 50.
Choice butcher heifers —-
27-28.75; good—2s-27, and pi
-med —23-25.
Good cows—22-23 50; med
20.50-22, and canners and cut
ters—lB-20.50.
Good bu 115—27.50
pl.-med.—26-27.50.
Stocker and feeder steers
27.50-30.50; stock steer cal
ves—3l-33.50.
Choice-prime butcher cal
ves—39-41; Good—37 - 39;
med—33-37, and thin—2s-33
The April 22 dairy- sale
had receipts of 111 cows, 15
stock bulls and 27 heifers*
with all classes steady.
Fresh Holstein cows brou-
34 and load comparable gr
ade 1120 lb. wgts. 33, choice
to mostly prime 1090 lb, ste
ers 34 and mixed choice and
prime 1020 lb. wgts. 32.25,
At the weeks high time on
Wednesday, a few loads high,
choice over 1100 lb. steers
reached 33.50, bulk good and
choice steers 27-32, numer
ous loads borderline good and
choice grades 28.75-29.50,
standard to low good steers
25-26.75. Loadlots utility and
standard Holstein steers 23 50
-25.50, part load mixed cut
ter and utility 1000 lb Hol
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