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Show MARKET HrrORT. Special to the Garland Globe: Kansas City Stock yaul, July 2l!. 1007 Ilcay cattle supplies arrived here last week", 10,000 head, including flOOO calves, but the general market held up strong. Cows and heifers lost 10 to 20 cents at the elose of the week. Slockers and feeders soht all week, because of the very flattering com prospects all over the corn urea, and the fine condition of pastures. Supply today is 2,000 head. Including 3000 calves, market steady on fed stiiH, cows and hclffers and slockers and feeders, but 0 to 1ft lower on grass steers. Motemeiit has been heavy from ipinrantire dlstilets for the past suvcial weeks, and cattle ate now coming freely from Kausas pastures making plenty of gisss cattle available, and some losses in the prices are naturally expected at this season. The market starts In the heavy fall season stronger than It has in any lecetit year, and demand from all sources unprecedented at Kansas City. Good weight Kits. Westerns sell at -1 -lo to 0 30, ! quarantine steers !.( to 4. 85, grass cows 3 2," to t 10, Mhlle fi d stuff Is bringing bring-ing highest prices of the season, lop steers today 7.10, lielffers up to ft 8."), cows t H!i, heavy feeders at .. 00 to ft. ftO light feeders and Mockers 3. BO to li. 00, vesl calves up lo 0. 2ft. Supplies of sheep and lambs are largely large-ly confined to small lots .of native, market mar-ket not much changed from a week ago, supply Is 1000 today, Including a ship-mcnt.ofslx ship-mcnt.ofslx loads of Utah wethers, 91 lbs., at 6. 95, with a few ewes In snntc shipment at 5. 50. Ytnrliiigs bring up to fl. 00, and lambs are worth 7.00 to 7. 05. Arizona is .still shipping n few and receipts in the last week have also Included small lots from Colorado, but the Texas season about over. Kansas City Stock yards, July 20, 1007. Llhcrsl supplies of grass cattle came in last weeek, largely from Kansas, but also Including a few shipments from the panhandle and fnom Arizona. Colorado Colora-do has not contributed anything as yet. Prices declined steadily all of last week, killing cattle, Including cows and heifers, showing a loss of 20 to -10 cents for the week, slockers and feeders 10 to 25 lower. low-er. The supply of cattle today Is much smaller than a week ago, 12,000 today, and the market Is stronger. Fed cattle have sold strong all nlnng, and tho best prices ot the yinr arc being paid today to-day for flu lb bed cattle, top 7 20, Kaunas grazed westerns at -I 25 to 5 75. Cows and heifers are 10 to 20 cents higher than the close of last week today, grass cows weighing 800 but best ones sell around G 00, same as a week ago Good rains havo fallen all over the dry section, sec-tion, and a big com crop is believed to be safe now. Shipment of stockeis and ft'cdcrs to the country from this point last week were large-1 of the season, at 450 car loads, and from now till the end nf the .season buyers will bo plentiful plenti-ful Forage of all kinds Is luxurant all over Ihe Missouri River Valley under Ihe influence of ideal weather for tho past two mouths, and stock cattle are wanted to consume It, range stockcrs selling at 3.25 to 1 35. The sheep market has been without feature for a few weeks past, but with the advent of several trains, of Western sheep this week, which are now enrnutc, interest of, buyers will revive. Receipts are small today, market steady, Utah wethers sold last week at 5 80 and ft 85, Colorado wethers ft 75, Arizona lambs 7 40, New Mexico mixed sheep 6 00, which prices give an Index to prevailing prices now. There Is a demand from the country for breeding ewes, as well as feeding lambs and wethers. J. A. niCKAIlT, -h. S. Correspondent. |