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Show 4 FOREIGN LIVESTOCK (United States Department of Agriculture) Agri-culture) 4- 1 CHICAGO, Oct. 31 Hogs: Receipts, 39,000; market weak; 25 to 40c lower; low-er; bulk good 170 to 200-poumi averages, aver-ages, $8 . 30(g) 8 . 40; good and choice. 210 to 250-pound heifers, $8.00fj Itop, $8 50; bulk packing sows. $7.00 ' 7 60; desirable pigs moMtly $8.50; heavy weight. $8.008.50, medium 'weiKht. $S 35 08. 60; light weight, $s 16 8. 40; light light. $8.1508.40; packing sows closed $7.30(07.65; I' u king sows, rough. $ 6 . 85 3 7 . 50 ; killing pigs. $8.40(g'8.50. Cattle; Receipts, 1 5.000; market Slow, quality plain, early sales native jbeef steers and western grassers about steady; warmed up and short fed steers dull, tending lower, early top matured steers, $13.00; quota of long fed comparatively scarce, bulk navy beef steers of quality and condition to sell at $8.75911.75; few early sales western gra.SNe.rs, $6 r,u rt 6.7.'.. M .il calves, steady to 25c higher; Other classes about steady; heavy feeders dull, bulk bologna bulls. $3 . 75 4 00 ; bulk veal calves to packers, early, around $10.00. Sheep: Receipts, 21.000; opening very slow; few early sales native lambs weak to shade lower; early top, $14 .00 to city butchers. $13.86 to packer; Western mostly feeders; fat western lambs, $13.75 to killers; feeders, demand de-mand fairly good, little doing early; sheep scarce, around steady. ST. JOSEPH. Mo. Oct. 31. Hog Receipts, 7,000; active, mostly 26c llower to both shippers and packers; $H 90 paid by both shippers and packers; pack-ers; packing sows, 15 to 26c lower, mostly $7 00, Cattle; Receipts. 3.000. best light veal calves, 60c lower; all other classes around steady, good 1 275 pound steers $11 00; bulk desirable native steers ami yearlings, $8 . 00 fa : . 16 ; 'one load common holder westerns $9 00; bulk beef cows early, $37607. 55j a few-extra few-extra head up to $6.60; cannera most-jly most-jly $2 35i2.60; light v.-al calves, top. :$9.50; heavies around $6 . Outo 7 . ,".u. a few loads stock steers, $5. 25&' 6. 4Q Sheep: Receipts, 4,000, all class a jnbout steady; western fat lambs $13.75013.90; fat natives, $13.90; a few western yearlings, $11.00. OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 31. Hogs Receipts Re-ceipts 4000; mostly 1625c lower, bulk packing gradis $6.8&ti 7 10; bulk 180 to 250 pounds $7.50$i 7.85, top $8 00. Cattl3 Receipts 9000; better grades : of beef steers steady; short fed and 'others slow, corn feds $ 12.00, she stock, bulls and veals mostly steady, jstockerS and feeders weak to 15c lower. low-er. ' Sheep Receipts 11.500; lambs 'steady to 25c higher; top $14.0" fed 'clipped lambs $12.75 12.8.6; yearlings :$110U down sheep steady; ewe tup $7 00, feeding lambs steady to easier; sorted light western lambs $13.25; feeding ewes $5-60 down. ICANSA9 CITY, Mo Oct 31. Cattle: Cat-tle: Receipts. 23.000, veal ere steady, other calves dull, best vealera. J'J 50 ) 10. 100; many heavy calvc-s, $4 00 ''(6 00. other classes slow and dull wbh prices steady to lower; early steer sales, $6.8609.00; best held around $13 00: bulk cows, $3.50(& 4 50. choice heavy ones held at $6.00; rnan grass heifers, $4.00(55 00, 3 calling heifers bid $9.00, bulk can-ners can-ners $8.0002.26; some bids below $2.00; better grades cutters, $3.00() 3.25, others around $2 75; bologna bulls largely $3 00&3 50. Hogs. Receipts, 12,000, very active; ac-tive; mostly 15 to 25c lower, spots off more early, shipper top, $8.00, packer top, $7 90; 140 to 190-pound-ers mos'ly $7 75 7. 85; bulk -0o to 250-pound butchers, $7 85 7 95; mixed weights of quality. $7.50tfi' 7 SO; bulk sales. $7.6007.95; packing pack-ing sows 15 to 25c lower; bulk, $6.50 jj'7.00; stock pigs steady to 10c lower, low-er, mostly $8.8008.60 Sheep. Receipts, 8.000; very slow, around steady, quality most loads plain; best westerns, $13.90; few choice sheep offered, desirable Texas feeding lambs. $12.50. M7V -V QRB BUG ML NEW YORK. Oct. 31- Tho early raw sugar market was quiet toda and no frrsh business was reported" Prices wero unchanged at 3c for Cubas cost and freight, equal to 5.63c for centrifugal Raw sugar futures were quiet and prices at midday wero 1 to 2 points net lower under scattered selling by commission houses. The demand for refined sugar was light with prices unchanged at $6.90 to $7 00 for fine granulated. Refined futures nominal. Sugar futures closed easy; approximate approxi-mate sales. 11.000 tons. December 3.65c, March, 3.19c, May, 3.32c; July, 3 46c. BUTTER AND EGGS. CHICAGO. Oct 31 Butter, higher; creamery extras. 47c; firsts. 86 39V$:C extra firsts. 4 2 W 45 Vc: seconds sec-onds 34 Vi ?? 35Hc. standards." 42 c Eggs, lower; receipts, 5 548 cases; firsts. 35460, ordinary firsts, 30 0 33c; misellaneous. 34 40c; refrigerator refriger-ator extras. 2 5325c; refrigerator firsts, 2401491c. Poultry, alive, lower; fowls, 13 19c; turkeys. 35c; springs. 18c; roosters, 14c; geese, 19 STEEL DIVIDENDS. NEW YORK, Oct 31. Directors of the United States Steel corporation declared their regular quarterly dividend divi-dend of 1 per cent on the preferred stock and 1 per cent on tho common. com-mon. The report of the corporation for the quarter ending September 30 showed total earnings of $1'7 46s.33'.t pnd net Income of $16,297,394. The bslance provided from undivided surplus sur-plus to pay tho dividends was $1,-S39.602. $1,-S39.602. LIBERTY BONDS. NEW YORK Oel 31. Liberty honds closed 3 8, $100.52. fim -Is, blank; second -is. blank, first 4S, ?98.44: second 4S, $98 30. third 4s, $9S 80, fourth 4s, $9 .'.4, Victory 4s, uncalled $100 3t; Victory Vic-tory 4 s, called. $ioo.04; U. S. treasury treas-ury 4 s, $99 82 |