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September, 7.3 per cent 13,908 4,399 3,625 



3,653 3,164 

 3,359 



2 025 2 130 

 October, 5.3 per cent 10,245 1^906 2*842 



3,923 8,086 

 November, 12.5 per cent 24,037 6,314 3,312 



Medium cattle receipts were miicli the same so far as percentages 

 were concerned, but you can not keep a record of these medium cattle 

 so well, or to show the influence of receipts on prices, because when you 

 get into this class of cattle in the fall of the year they come more or 

 less in competition with the western cattle, and these two classes of 

 cattle are influenced according to the demands of beef and grades of 

 cattle, and so the beef came in competition with the western cattle, and 

 when western beef is good, competition between this class of cattle and 

 western cattle is very keen, and it will break the price on these cattle 

 down to practically the level that western beef cattle are selling for. 



The receipts in this class were: April, 28,411, or 14.7 per cent; May, 

 43,105, or 22.4 per cent; June, 24,896, or 12.9 per cent; July, 22,033, or 11.5 

 per cent; August, 25,618, or 13.3 per cent; September, 13,008, or 7.8 per 

 cent; October, 10,245, or 5.3 per cent, and November, 24,037, or 12.5 

 per cent. 



COMMON STEERS. 



2,053 7,388 

 April 19,092 9,357 



5,213 4,985 

 May 22,491 8,081 3,750 



3,174 3,157 

 June 16,407 3,216 3,880 



11,955 4,538 2,382 



July 2,239 2,839 



2,937 



2,478 4,452 

 August 16,255 2,257 4,823 



3,352 4,151 

 September 14,430 2,879 4,128 



2,164 3,908 



October 11,957 1,861 2,314 



3,874 



5,744 4,421 

 November 19,077 4,837 2,299 



This last chart of common steers, I have not carried the figures into 

 percentages, but you can see there was no such variation in the re- 

 ceipts of these steers as there has been in the other classes — the largest 

 receipts for the eight-months period having been some 22,000 in May, and 



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