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Show bbbbw' 'b Hal " ' fc ' ' ' ' ' I cTrixERiciBipTs CONTINUE LIGHT H Higher Prices Prevail for Cattle m and Hogs -No Break B in Sight H Kansas City Stack Yards, July H 12, 1912. Cattle received here . this week 22,800, last week 23,-H 23,-H 000, same week last year 20,100. H Extremely small receipts the H first days of tho -week brought a H rise of 25 to 40 cents on nearly H all kinds -of cattle, quarantines H getting tho full advance. Sinco H Wednesday there has been a H small loss on western steers in H U .the native division, though the H best Greenwood County steers, H and others of like quality, are quotablo at $8.00 to $8. GO. Primo H steers are little ciTccted by tho H fluctuations in the general mar-H mar-H kot, standing in a cluss by thern-H thern-H selves, and labeled with the sign, "Firm," garanteed not to come off. Quarantine cattlo havo held H tho advanco secured tho first of ' tho week, and, tolegrams sent out to shippers below tho lino today ""' quoto tho advanco over last Fri-H Fri-H day at 25 to 50 conts on steers, H and 25 to 40 conts on cows. Scv-H Scv-H oral droves of cows sold thoro to day at $4.50 to $4.75, and top H steors rcachod $7.15 in that di-H di-H vision today, highest in two B weeks. Stockers and feeders H aro stronger this wcok, as tho H - run is small, and somo of the H large army of grass ownors, non-H non-H stocked, standing around wait-H wait-H ing for runs to get hoavior and H tho market to drop, broko over H and bought a fow. Thoro is a I mklgv cry going up all ovor tho H waste Whoro it is bluo grass it H can bo conserved and used this H winter, but in thorango country M it will bo losh Stock steers M rango from $4.50 to $0.40, feed- crs $6.00 to $0.80. H Hogs rccoived hero this week 82,000, last week 42,803, samo H wcok last year 74,700. It is an M up market this week, with the M ( ..exception of yesterday, when H ' prlcos wero lower, market steady. H today. Apparently numbers H havo little to do with tho market H this week. Middle and light H weights havo crawled up on tho j heavies this week, and bulk of M sales havo accordingly narrowed M down. Top today is $7.55, paid M for all weights, and bulk is at H $7.40 to $7.50. H Sheep received hero this week B 25,500, last wcok 14,700, samo H v"k last year 25,000. Lambs H sv.ii.. 1 ut $8.00 first fow days of B tho veok,but they havo dropped M down a little from that figure. j Various bands of Now Mexico H wothers, woighing around 100 H pounds, havo sold every day this M week at $4.90 to $5.00, and bulk H of tho native owes go at $4.00 to H $4.15. Advices from Utah say H tho movement from there this B . year will bo 25 per cent short of H normal, and that it will start tho H first of August. |