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Show i i ii i I. AH Cattle Lower. Kansas City Stock Yards, Oct. 27, 1911. Cattle received here this week 84.200,, last week 85,200. The market is 25 to 40 , lower on all the cattle below choice to prime quality this j week, with the exception of , stockers and feeders, the best of which have remained steady, 1 medium and low grades 10 to 20 lower. Prime steers are about as high as at any time, top here I this week at $3.85 being the 1 highest paid here since Novem- I ber, 1909. About one third the i receipts have been taken back to j the country, Kansas being the ' heaviest purchaser at this time, with Missouri, Illinois and Iowa ' following in the order named. Two loads of 300 heifer calves, fair to good quality, went to Nebraska yesterday, at $1.00, which is a good deal cheaper than they would have cost two weeks ago. Calves are off 25 to 50 cents this week. Dealers look for a heavy run of cattle next week, because of frosts and snow in some places this week, and ! also for the reason that a good uleal of cattle paper matures November 1st. The pan handle and Colorado will drop in a good I many cattle right along now, for another month. Kansas grass steers have sold at $5.00 to $6.00 for bulk of sales, with a few choice loads at $7.00 to $7.50, and one lot of the best cattle off the grass here this season, at $8.00. Cows have been hard hit this week, heavy native grass cows now selling at $4.25 to$4.60 j for good ones, and only a few up to $5.00, panhandle cows at $3.55 to $4.20. top veals $7.50. Sheep received here this week 82,100. Sheep seem to be coming com-ing from all parts of the range country, with Colorado in the 'majority, ana utan s snowin signs of the finish of the season. Prices are a shade lower, best ' lambs now worth $5.80, feeding lambs $4.35 to $4.70, fat wethers $3.40 to $3.75, ewes $2.90 to $3.25, stock and breeding ewes aiiy.old price from $2.25 to $3.75. The assortment of country eligibles was never better here, nor the quantity greater, nor was the demand for them ever as great as it is now. J. A. RICKART, Market Correspondent. |