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Show EjjPLAii Falling Off in Livestock Receipts is Quite Heavy Washington, Feb. 10. One contributing contrib-uting cause to the high prico of meat, according to a report of the department depart-ment of commerce and labor, Issued today, la tho fact that livestock receipts re-ceipts for the year 1909 at seven leading lead-ing Interior markets of the United States were the lowest slnco 1904. The total livestock receipts for tho year 19o9 In these markets aggregated aggre-gated 39.545,725 head. Particularly did the receipts of hogs for the last year fall off. For each of the four years previous to 1909 the hog receipts re-ceipts had been in excess of 19.000.000 head, totaling more than 22.000.000 In 1908, falling to 18.834.641 last year. Cattle receipts, in the markets for 909 9.19S.312 whllo comparing favorably fav-orably with those of the previous year fell below the totals for the threo years before 1908. - Sheep fell below those in 1905 to 1907, but compared favorably with I'.iOS. Receipts at the Chicago marKOt lor j!08 show a decrease of 1.627.074 as compared with the year before, or a (kcllno of 19 per ceut Receipts at Kansas City decreased 17 per cent; receipts at Omaha 12 per cent; at St Joseph Mo., 28 per cent; while the declines at St Louis was only 4 per cent. Whllo total number of cattle receipts re-ceipts at these several points was larger than the year before, the 1909 cattle receipts at Chicago, 2.925.805 head fell below tho three million mark , for the first tlmo ainco 1902, const It-uilng It-uilng less than 32 per cent of tho total for tho seven primary markets, as compared with 36 per cent tho average av-erage proportion for tho preceding flvo ytars. The annual aggTegato shipments ot packing house products from Chicago, 2.151.633,713 pounds, were below; those reached for any of tho previous five years, says the. report All the items in tho praivd total-, with the exception of pickled beef and pork, show large declines a compared with the flcwe for. tho. previous vears. Tho largest loews slnco 1905 "appear under the head of canned moats, the loss amounting to about ID per cent and of lard, th shipments ' of which declined about 33 rer cent hlnce that year. Tho report also rhow6 that grain receipts re-ceipts at fJfteen of tho principal markets mar-kets during 1909 were 744.624.nr,$ bushels, which waa lower than for any year tlnce 1904. |