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Show LIB MURE IS LOOKING GOOD ri:i:m:iiH hioi-i.i this mcaso.v MAKIC IIAMISO.MIS PltOHTM. tritely the Cattle Market Un Shown Sign of Tiiciity.l'ho in Tlilro-l'iu' Cents All Down the Mne liver (iniile PnimlM to IU ulto Plcntl-Inl Plcntl-Inl Through llio I'ivm-iiI Winter, Correspondence Tho Hun. ICANHAH CITY, Mo., Dee. 20. The I cattle market after Monday last week showed declines of fifteen to thirty-five thirty-five cents on the various classes, j Blockers and feeders lost their gain of the first of the week, ((specially feeders, which found slow su'e. Un-celpts Un-celpts today are fifteen hundred head, and thn market Is strong on all classes, A large share of thn supply Is stockers nnd feeder, beef grades bo-lug bo-lug relatively scurce. nnd good to choice finished cattle entirely lacking. lack-ing. A drove of short fed middle-class middle-class steers was put up by n packer at fC.ee, and good quality short fed steers, some of them of good weights, sell at 17.00 to $7.76, pretty high grade steers being required to gut above $8.00. Some Panhandle fed steers sold at $7.70 toda). Cows bring $6.25 to 18.26 In most cases, bulls $6.26 to $0.00. veals $11.00 to $9.28. Blockers and feeders uro not selling quite us brisk today, although some yearling steers brought $8.00. Generally Gen-erally speaking well bred thin steers, In nil weights from six hundred to clown hundred nnd fifty pounds sell around $0.66, while plain stockers, good colors and good doers, sell nt $6.60 to $6.00. Tho sentiment pre-Mills pre-Mills here that beef rattle will bo plentiful through the winter, und ulso during thu grass season next summer llreeding stock rcmnlns firm, well bred light young cows selling at $5.25 to $5.00, heifers at $5.75 to $7.60. In-i In-i hiding tho fancy kinds. Hheep nnd lambs sold steady toda). iwafed lambs selling ut $9 oo. whb h figure has been the top price isirli day slneo Ikst Monday, ltecelpts wore nine thousand head, and tho supply contained some good yeurllugs uli $7.50. wethers at $0.50. und medium i ewes at $5 80 Lambs which have1 not had n good finish sell around $8.50 und feeding lambs, sorted out of Immature lots of fed Westerns, b' lug up to $8.25. From appearanoss lamb feeders this season who make their lambs good will secure a profit on them. PImmiko About Krmlli'utiNl. Tho foot nnd mouth disease has been eradicated from tho country with the exception of a small strip In Illinois nnd It should bo entirely wiped out by the middle of January, according to word received from tho federal officials at Washington, D. C, by Dr. A. C. Young, stuto live stock Inspector. In-spector. Dr. Young stntes his belief that tho percentage of cases of tuberoulosU In dairy cattle In Utah wll show u reduction re-duction to less than 1 per cont for the year dosing. When tho work of eradication erad-ication started several 'years ago the coses ran over 2 per cent. Tho stato Is also clear of scabies and there Is comparatively little hog cholera. |