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Show BTIE MARKET WAS SATISFACTORY KSSAS HEAVIEST BUYER; MISSOURI SECOND. Shortage" Is Written All Over "the Probable Run of Sheep and Limbs Here For Next Two Months Strong Prices Predicted Hy Roth Sides. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 1. Cattle trade last week wna satisfactory satis-factory to sellers nftcr Monday, i good Btrong mnrkct on nil kinds cery dny, nnd cnttlo took jood fills. The supply today Is J3,000 head, nnd sales nro steady stea-dy to strong on both killing nnd country grades. As was the cue Inst week, about 75 per cent of the Hupply is stockers and feeders. Tho good demnnd of lut week continues, nnd there U ample outlet. Kansas is the heaviest buyer, Missouri n good itcond and Illinois buying more cittlc now than any time in two years. On Wednesday of Inst week 15,400 Btockcrs nnd feed-. tn were shipped out to the country, a new high record for i single day here, and during the reck 51,707 head went out, the biggest week ever known here. Abo for tho month of October n new high record of siockcr nnd feeder shipments out was mndpf it 185.G90 head. The Panhnntllc and New Mexico had choice vearlings hero today tip to $8.50, food yearlings nnd twos nt $7.00 to $7.75, somo plain feeders weighing around a thousand pounds nt $6.90 to $7.10. Colo-rado Colo-rado hud plain horned feeders weighing 980 pounds nt $0.85, dehorned feeders weighing 1009 pounds at $7.00, yearlings nnd twos at $7.00 to $7.50, cows at $5.50 to$G.25. Twenty-four, enrs of Montana beef steers were, included in-cluded todny, 1170 to 1320 pounds average, which sold at-J7.G0, at-J7.G0, a few nt $7.50. Montnnn beef steers sold hero last Thursday Thurs-day nt $7.50 to $8.00, cows at 50.G5. Oregon feeders sold nt $7.15 today, cows $0.00. Western West-ern Kansas has first-class wheat prospects, nnd is buying cnttlo to graze tho wheat fields. Fed steers sold up to ten dollars today to-day nnd tho margin between feeders and finished stee in conjunction with corn nt forty to fifty cents n bushel, Is stimulating stim-ulating demnnd for feeding ,tecrs. Sheep receipts 13,000 head, market strong. Lambs nro quotable quo-table up to $8.75, some medium raiiKo Iambs today nt $8.40 to 58.GO, light weight Mexicnn feeding Inmbs, choice, $8.25 to 58 40, good Western feeders nt 58.00 to $8.25. Mexicnn "Pcc-ueiV "Pcc-ueiV around $7.75. Fnt ewes are worth up to $5.85, wethers 5G.50, yearlings, both fat nnd ceding, around $7.00. Breeding Breed-ing ewes find rendy snlo up to 7.00, nccording to age, nnd feeding ewes sell nt $4.75 to 55.00. "Shortage" is written all over tho probable run of sheep nnd lnmbs here for tho next two mouths, nnd strong prices nro Predicted by both buyers nnd sellers. |