Show CATTLE CATlE PRICES I SHOW A DECLINE Letter Leter Correspondence KANSAS CITY STOCK TOCK YARDS Aug 3 cattle Cattle prices d declined 15 I to 40 cents cent last ast week prime steers and common cow cown lo losing least medium and common grass steers good Rod cows cow and stockers and feeders feed teed ers ens closing 25 to 40 cents lower Tight mon money y and fears of ot corn orn crop damage froth from dr dry weather Wether were were- leading causes cuse of or weakness Smaller beef boef consumption since the late advance to retailers to together together to- to gether gehe with wih liberal receipts of or imported meats at New York combined combine to lighten the d demand mand from tram killers klers for tor live cattle The supply ton today Is ii I 1000 head Jve and the market is slow low and unevenly lower Packer Pack Pack- er buyers buyer buyer remained close coso to telephone re receivers receiver receivers re- re til till 10 o'clock getting their b bearIngs bearIngs bear bear- rIngs r- r Ings with reference to financing purchases purchases pur pur- chases chaes the question queston of ot available a cash ha having sudden suddenly become extremely Important Im Im- Im- Im A few tew earl early sales sale of at medium native steers at al and and prime primo natives es at and UDO were wee steady but bulk of at sales were vero 19 to 15 11 cents cent lower and the market very vey slow All AU the adverse ere Influences at work vork for tor I three weeks week In the thc stocker and feeder I trade remain effective e with lh uncertainty and fear rep respecting the future of trade In general added toda today Quarantine c cattle Ule receipts were eighty eight cars car trade slow and unevenly lower Some Somo good cake cake fed red steers sold at and medium to common Oklahoma grass steers steers' at to O. O Hog Hol supplies gM have been running very cr light here and the efforts of packers to break brek the tho market market who have Invoked every e cr influence nt at their thir command com corn mand to that end have had a Q minimum effect here hore because of ot a good goo order buy buy- log ing trade Receipts toa today are head hed and nd about 1000 hogs hoja hoK were sold to order buyers buers pt at t to C. C Packers Packer Packer did nothing till tJ noo noon when in response to a report of a break of ot 50 cents in Chicago their bids 40 to 50 cents lower low low- er or and secured a good man many hogs at 3 8 to With Europe on a I war footIng footing CotIn foot foot- Cot Cot- In Ing It would seem that provisions must advance e of ot tho the fact that mess pork porle declined heavily he tony today Severe flue flue- tun tons In hog hOI prices during the next week are expected Sheep and lamb supplies today were 2000 head and the market was strong a at t the ad advance va nce of ot last lat week Native Nat e lambs lamb sold cold told tit at Lt 7 7 7 75 to toda today and choice range rne lambs would bring Receipts are running running running run run- ning very CT light and no Westerns were received toda today Native recel ed ewes bring up to 5 range ewes eweR worth breeding ewes up to StO and feeding reeding lambs lamb could be beMi besold besold sold Mi around arund 7 J J. A. A RICKART Market Correspondent |