St. Louis Auction
Oct. 9,1975
Weekly Cattle
Review
Receipts: 8,600 Week Ago
8,900 Year Ago 7,700.
Compared to last Tuesday,
slaughter steers and heifers
strong to 50 cents higher,
with instances 1.00 higher.
Wholesale dressed beef
prices improved at mid week
and a stronger tone
prevailed in late live week
trade. However, increased
supply cows under pressure.
Cows 1.50-2.00 lower. Bulls
steady. Steer and Heifer
supply largely mixed Good
and Choice 900-1050 lbs.
Slaughter steers 25 percent
of receipts; No. 38! 34 20
percent; cows 18 percent and
feeders 35 percent.
SLAUGHTER STEERS:
Omaha
Oct. 9
Weekly 51 - Cattle -
Compared with the previous
weeks (Jose -
Slaughter steers 25-50
cents higher, Heifers 50-75
cents higher,, instances 1.00
up in late trading. Cows 1.00-
1.50 lower, and bulls weak.
Four Day Receipts 16,000
as compared 14,100 previous
week and 17,800 a year ago.
Slaughter steers ap
proximately 30 pet. week
total. Heifer 26 percent, cows
10 percent, and feeders for
Friday Auction 33 percent.
STEERS: Four loads
Choice and Prime 1216-1348
lbs. Yield Grade 3-4 52.00 at
midweek, two loads earlier
1157-1171 lbs. Yield Grade 3-4
51.50. Choice 1125-1250 lbs.
Yield Grade 2-4 closed 49.25-
50.50, load High - Choice 1192
lbs. 51.00. Choice 975-1125 lbs.
50.25. Mixed Good and
Choice 925-1200 lbs. 46.50-
48.25, Good 900-1250 lbs.
41.50-46.50, occasionally
46.75-47.00. Standard and low
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Choice 1000-1200 lbs. YG 2-4
48.50- 900-1000 lbs.
47.50- Mixed Good and
Choice 900-1100 lbs. 48.00
48.50. few Choice 850-900 lbs.
45.50-46.00. Good 900-1100 lbs.
42.00-46.00. Part load mostly
Good 1150 lb. Holsteins 41.00.
Standard and Good 950-1200
lbs. 37.00-39.00.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Choice 800-1050 lbs. YG 2-4
46.00-47.50. Mixed Good and
Choice 43.0046.00. Good 700
900 lbs. 38.00-43.00, with
Standard and Good 32.00
37.00. •
COWS: Utility 21.0023.50.
Cutter 18.0021.00. Canner
and Low Cutter 15.0018.00.
Thin Shelly 625-800 lb.
Canner 12.0014.00.
BULLS: YG 1-2 11001700
lbs. 22.0026.50.
Auction
- Good 38.50-40.50.
The average of LS-214,
detailed quotations, for
Choice 900-1100 lb. Steers this
week 48.90; Choice 1100-1300
lbs. 50.15.
HEIFERS: Load Choice
and Prime 959 lbs. Yield
Grade 3-4 48.00, moderate
volume same grade 950-1030
lbs. Yield Grade 3-4 47.50-
47.75. Choice 900-1025 lbs.
Yield Grade 2-4 46.0047.50.
Mixed Good and Choice 750-
975 lbs. 44.00-46.00. Good
37.50- Small lots
Standard and Low-Good
32.50-
COWS: Utility and
Commercial 20.00-23.00, a
few High - Utility and
Commercial 23.50-24.00.
Canner and Cutter 14.00-
20.00, Mixed Cutter and Low-
Utility 20.25-20.50. Shelly
Canner 10.00-13.00.
BULLS: Yield Grade 1 & 2
1400-1800 lbs. 23.00-27.00, a
few yield Grade 1 27.50-28.00.
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Sale
Report
Special Feeder
Calf Sale -
TIR-STATE (Abingdon) -
(Oct. 6, 1975).
There were 2,100 head
sold. All steers and heifers
were graded ■ by
Representatives of the
VDAC’s Division of Markets,
Livestock Section on VDAC
standards and sold by the
hundredweight.
STEERS: Choice & Good
300-400 lbs. 31.00-37.75,
mostly 34.00-37.00 ; 400-500
lbs. 31.00-40.00, mostly 35.50-
40.00• «WV6OO lbs 50-40.7*>,
mostly 35.50-40.75 Medium
300-400 lbs. 26.50-32.00; 400-
500 lbs. 26.00-32.00; 500-600
lbs. 28.50-32.50. Common 300-
400 lbs. 18.00-24.00; 400-500
lbs. 21.00-24.50; 500-600 lbs.
22.00-25.50.
HEIFERS: Choice & Good
300-400 lbs. 18.00-23.00; 400-
500 lbs. 19.00-27.50; 500-600
lbs. 22.50-25.25. Medium 300-
400 lbs. 16.00-17.50; 400-500
lbs. 18.00-23.75; 500-600 lbs.
22.00- Common 300-400
lbs. 14.00-15.50 ; 400-600 lbs.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct 11. 1975
The demand for better wool in America lead to feaverish
speculation and many farmers paid high prices for imported
sheep.
Between 1810 and 1811,
some 20,000 Merinos were
shipped from Lisbon to
America, and they created a
furor Common wool from the
sheep then m the New World
was short stapled and coarse,
and sold for less than 40-cents
a pound. Menno wool in 1811
sold for 75-cents a pound
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$2 to $3 a pound, and in
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A Bucks County, Pa., ob
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this county from 1810 to 1815
Full-blooded Merinos sold as
high as $3OO to $5OO each and
in a few instances, they
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crop, 200 bushels at S 3 a
bushel and gave the whole of
it for one sheep When the
fever subsided, these same
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As the speculative fever
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sacrificed their entire flocks
A butcher in Philadelphia re
ported buying an entire Mer
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As the animals were herded
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the rams to the butcher,' and
reported that it had been im
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