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Show TRADE IN LIVE STOCK 1 MP IM PRODUCTS CENSUS DEPARTMENT FURNISHES FIGURES ON DEALINGS FOR FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1910. Commercial niovemwits of live-, ntock and meat products for the first half of 1910, ns reported to tho bureau bu-reau of Ftatlntles of the department of commerco and labor, to some ex'-tent ex'-tent reflect the shortage of the aul-nial aul-nial food supply lu the country. While tho June movements wore in most cases heavier than for tho earlier months, the record for the first half of the year, both In the domestic do-mestic and foreign commerce, Indicates Indi-cates a considerable shrinkage in th" commercial supplies of some of tho pimo necessaries of life. Livestock receipts during June at coven primary Interior markets, 3.039,750 head, for the first tima iince January showed a gain and exceeded ex-ceeded even the June, 1909, receipts "f 2,934.221 head. Of the total Col-079 Col-079 head were cattle; 101.400 head, ealves; l,3$2.fi92 head, hogs; 683.-CSS 683.-CSS head, sheep; and 20.321 head, l orses and mules. Tho June re celptfi of hogs, while decidedly higher high-er than In either of the lhreL preceding pre-ceding months, still continue much below the average for like periods lr. earlier years, while th? rattle llg-rves llg-rves exceed the corresponding 1901 i:nd IfiOS totals. The .shortage In the j commercial supply of live ftock is best ee?n from a comparison of the half-yearly figures. which totaled lG,40::,7riC head In 1910. compared vlth 10.081.725 head In 1309 and 20.-20,39-1 head In Jf'OS. The loss of over two and a half million head, as compared with 19Ji. is due almost entljely to the smaller number oi l;rgs brought to mnrket. Assuming that the average six months receipts Jer the Jn6t five years at the seven primary markets represent the uor- j nial commercial supply, the shortage In hog receipts thu far in 1910 is almost 25 peJ cent. However, th? Inrger average weight or the animal-; leported for the present year offsets, to some extent, the loss iu numbers. The distribution of this loss In hog receipts is far from uniform. Chicago Chica-go shows a loss of .11 per cent, a rcnipnred with the above average; Kansas City, a loss of 2C per cen.; Omaha, a loss of 20 per cent, and St. Louis a loss of only 5 per cent. Tho I'irtailraent In the commercial supply rf cattle is less pronounced, the six months' receipts for the present year bflng about 6 per cent below the av-f-rage half-yearly receipts for the (ire-ceding (ire-ceding five-year period. It should b? Ma tod, however, that the cattle figures fig-ures for Omaha and St. Louis includo the receipts of calves. Inasmuch as the six months' receipts of calves for the present year at the five ma.-kets ma.-kets which report them separately were over 22- per cent larcer than the average six months' receipts for tho preceding five-year period. It follows fol-lows that the receipts of cattle at tnr even leading markets were really real-ly lower than staled above, and the losses, as compared with earlier years, correspondingly larger. A: compared with the above iaverape. the receipts of sheep nt the seven jeading markets. 3.S20.23C head, show t los-3 of over 11 per cent. It is note-worthy note-worthy that the decline In the supplv ol sheep began after 1900. that of cat- I tie after 1907. and that of hogs after j 190S. j Livestock receipts for June at the ; four principal Atlantic seaconst cities ! US' ,745 head, were larger than for .iL-y other month of the year, though falling short' of the .tune. 19119 and 1910, totals 01" 805,570 and 920,230 head. lespectively. The aggregate livestock receipts at these four cities for the first hair of the year, 3.805.-200 3.805.-200 head, likewise show a decided decline from the corresponding 1903 ;ind 1908 figures of 4.437.0S0 and I.-f03,695 I.-f03,695 head Here al9o the largest loss is shown in receipts of hogs, while the number of calves marketed shows a substantial increase over the figures of earlier years. Tho six .months' supply of hogs at the four joaboard markets, 1,090.304 head, fell t'bout 20 per cent below the average hlx months' figures for the preceding live years. The largest receipts of hogs, as In the case of the principal interior markets, are shown for tho first six months in 1908. The number of sheep handled at these four mar hots during tho first half of the year, 1,281.245 ihead. likewise Indicate a continuous decline since 1900. The shipments during June of pad:-ine pad:-ine house products from Chicago. 170,820,550 pounds, show the largest monthly total for the year, though falling below the June, 1909 and 190S, I shipments of 185.005.090 and 204.821.-305 204.821.-305 pounds. The six months' figures for 1910, 993,953,975 pounds, for th. first time during the more recent I period fe-11 helow one billion pounds ) and were almost 20 per cent below six months' average for the preceding preced-ing five years. The largest Item of t-hlpoient for the six months, fresh beef, 416.288,000 pounds, showed a j. :t In of over fifty million pounds ove the 190? figures. As compared, however, how-ever, with the average six months' rltipinents of this article during the piecedlng five years, a loss or over V.' per cent is shown. The shipment? during the same period of cured iiieatH. 294.423,400 pounds. 3how a loss of 20 per cent when compared vith the average for the above peril. per-il. d. The shipments of canned meats. I 29.397.625 pounds In the six months I of 1910, have not yet regained th; I ground lost since 1900. The six months' shipments of lard. 1 35,739, S00 I onnds, show a loss of over 30 per cent when compared with the averago lor the six months' period of the five preceding years. A decline of over 25 per cent Is shown in the eastward movement from Chicago of provisions, which are stated as 440.493 tons for the first six months of 1910. as compared with an average of over coo.ooo tons ;'or the corresponding months of the preceding five years. The export trade in the live animals ani-mals and meat products reflects the same downward tendency. Thus the foreign shipments of cattle, which as kite as the fiscal year 190S comprised 249,210 head fell during the fiscal year just ended to 139,430 head The c.uantity of fresh beef exported fell rrom20i.l54.105 pounds in 1908 to 75,729,000 pounds in the fiscal year Just ended. The quantities of hog products exported show even heavier decreases Thus foreign shipments of bacon which comprised 241, 1S9, 9.9 pounds in 190S went down to J52.I03.107 pounds in 1910; hams and shoulders, 221.709.034 pounds in 1908 to 14C.SS5.3S5 pounds in 1910, fresh, canned and pickled pork from 170. S37.427 pounds In 190S to 45.113.S99 pounds in 1910. and lard from 003.-1",77o 003.-1",77o pounds In 190S to 302,927.071 pounds in 1910. I The stocks of meat at the end of June held in five principal stockyard I .niers.. 197.S70.S00 pounds, show some increase since January of the present year, though compared with il; five year avemge for the same diite,, a decrease of over 20 per cent is shown. |