Part 12

The week opened with the bears on top and prices were forced downward. Speculation was heavy. Ocean freights are low, yet but little grain comparatively is going out. London and Liverpool advices were not encouraging and the New York markets were easy. Corn was unusually dull.

WHEAT.--Red winter, in store No. 2, 98c; spring No. 2 92@93c; No. 3. 85@89c on track.

CORN.--Moderately active. Car lots No 2, 53@53-1/2c; rejected, 46c; new mixed, 52-1/2c.

OATS.--No. 2 on track closed 34-1/4@35c.

RYE.--No. 2 59@62c.

BARLEY.--No. 2, 66c; No. 3, f.o.b. 6l@62c; No. 5 50c.

FLAX.--Closed at $1 60@1 61 on track.

TIMOTHY.--$1 28@l 34 per bushel. Little doing.

CLOVER.--Quiet at $5 50@5 70 for prime.

HUNGARIAN.--Prime 60@67-1/2c.

BUCKWHEAT.--70@75c.

MILLET.--45@50c.

PROVISIONS.--Mess pork. May $18 10@18 25. Green hams, 11-3/4c per lb. Short ribs, $9 55@9 60 per cwt.

LARD.--$9 60@9 75.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

NOTE.--The quotations for the articles named in the following list are generally for commission lots of goods and from first hands. While our prices are based as near as may be on the landing or wholesale rates, allowance must be made for selections and the sorting up for store distribution.

BRAN.--Quoted at $15 50@15 75 per ton on track.

BEANS.--Hand picked mediums $2 10@2 15. Hand picked navies, $2 15@2 25.

BUTTER.--Choice to extra creamery, 33@35c per lb.; fair to good do 25@30c; fair to choice dairy 24@28c; common to choice packing stock fresh and sweet, 9@10c; ladle packed 10@13c.

BROOM-CORN.--Good to choice hurl 7@8c per lb; green self-working 6@6-1/2c; red-tipped and pale do 4@5c; inside and covers 3@4c; common short corn 2-1/2@3-1/2c; crooked, and damaged, 2@4c, according to quality.

CHEESE.--Choice full-cream cheddars 14@l5c per lb; medium quality do 10@12c; good to prime full-cream flats 15@15-1/2c; skimmed cheddars 9@10c; good skimmed flats 7@9c; hard-skimmed and common stock 5@7c.

EGGS.--The best brands are quotable at 20@21c per dozen, fresh.

FEATHERS.--Quotations: Prime live geese feathers 52@54c per lb.; ducks 25@35c; duck and geese mixed 35@45c; dry picked chicken feathers body 6@6-1/2c; turkey body feathers 4@4-1/2c; do tail 55@60c; do wing 25@35c; do wing and tail mixed 35@40c.

HAY.--No 1 timothy $10@10 75 per ton; No 2 do $850@9 50; mixed do $7@8; upland prairie $7@8 50; No 1 prairie $6@7; No 2 do $4 50@5 50. Small bales sell at 25@50c per ton more than large bales.

HIDES AND PELTS.--Green-cured light hides 8-1/2c per lb; do heavy cows 8c; No 2 damaged green-salted hides 6-1/2c; green-salted calf 12@12-1/2 cents; green-salted bull 6 c; dry-salted hides 11 cents; No. 2 two-thirds price; No. 1 dry flint 14@14-1/2c, Sheep pelts salable at 25@28c for the estimated amount of wash wool on each pelt. All branded and scratched hides are discounted 15 per cent from the price of No. 1.

HOPS.--Prime to choice New York State hops 27@28c per lb; Pacific coast of 23@25c; fair to good Wisconsin 15@20c.

HONEY AND BEESWAX.--Good to choice white comb honey in small boxes 15@17c per lb; common and dark-colored, or when in large packages 12@14c; beeswax ranged at 25@30c per lb, according to quality, the outside for prime yellow.

POULTRY.--Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are: Turkeys 16@l7c per lb; chickens 12@13c; ducks 14@15c; geese 10@11c. Thin, undesirable, and frozen stock 2@3c per lb less than these figures; live offerings nominal.

POTATOES.--Good to choice 38@42c per bu. on track; common to fair 30@36c. Illinois sweet potatoes range at $4@5 per bbl for yellow.

TALLOW AND GREASE.--No 1 country tallow 7@7-1/4c per lb; No 2 do 6-1/4@6-1/2c. Prime white grease 6@6-1/2c; yellow 5-1/4@5-3/4; brown 4-1/2@5.

VEGETABLES.--Cabbage, $10@15 per 100; celery, 35@45c per per doz bunches; onions, $1 50@1 75 per bbl for yellow, and $1 for red; turnips, $1 35@1 50 per bbl for rutabagas, and $1 00 for white flat. Pie plant, 10c per lb. Spinach, $1@2 per bbl. Cucumbers, $1 50@2 00 per doz; radishes, 40c per doz; lettuce, 40c per doz.

WOOL.--From store range as follows for bright wools from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa--dark Western lots generally ranging at 1@2c per lb. less.

Coarse and dingy tub 25@30 Good medium tub 31@34 Unwashed bucks' fleeces 14@15 Fine unwashed heavy fleeces 18@22 Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces 22@23 Coarse unwashed fleeces 21@22 Low medium unwashed fleeces 24@25 Fine medium unwashed fleeces 26@27 Fine washed fleeces 32@33 Coarse washed fleeces 26@28 Low medium washed fleeces 30@32 Fine medium washed fleeces 34@35 Colorado and Territory wools range as follows: Lowest grades 14@16 Low medium 18@22 Medium 22@26 Fine 16@24 Wools from New Mexico: Lowest grades 14@16 Part improved 16@17 Best improved 19@23 Burry from 2c to 10c off; black 2c to 5c off.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

The total receipts and shipments for last week were as follows:

Received. Shipped.

Cattle 30,963 15,498 Calves 375 82 Hogs 62,988 34,361 Sheep 18,787 10,416

CATTLE.--Diseased cattle of all kinds, especially those having lump-jaws, cancers, and running sore, are condemned and killed by the health officers. Shippers will save freight by keeping such stock in the country.

Receipts were fair on Sunday and Monday and the demand not being very brisk prices dropped a little. The supply of choice beeves was light. We quote

Choice to prime steers $6 00@ 6 85 Good to choice steers 6 20@ 6 50 Fair to good shipping steers 5 55@ 6 15 Common to medium dressed beef steers 4 85@ 5 50 Very common steers 5 00@ 5 50 Cows, choice to prime 5 00@ 5 50 Cows, common to choice 3 30@ 4 95 Cows, inferior 2 50@ 3 25 Common to prime bulls 3 25@ 5 50 Stockers, common to choice 3 70@ 4 75 Feeders, fair to choice 4 80@ 5 25 Milch cows, per head 25 00@ 65 00 Veal calves, per 100lbs 4 00@ 7 75

HOGS.--All sales of hogs in this market are made subject to a shrinkage of 40 lbs for piggy sows and 80 lbs for each stag. Dead hogs sell at 1-1/2c per lb for weight of 200 lbs and over, and 1c for weights of less than 200 lbs. With the exception of cripples and milch cows, all stock is sold per 100 lbs live weight.

There were about 3,000 head more on Sunday and Monday than for same days last week, the receipts reaching 11,000 head. All but the poorest lots were readily taken at steady prices. Common to choice light bacon hogs were sold from $5 80 to $6 70, their weights averaging 150@206 lbs. Rough packing lots sold at $6 20@6 75. and heavy packing and shipping hogs averaging 240@309 lbs brought $6 80@7 40. Skips were sold at $4 75@$5 75.

SHEEP.--This class of stock seems to be on the increase at the yards. Sunday and Monday brought hither 5,500 head, an increase of 2,500 over receipts a week ago. Prices weakened a little. Sales ranged at $3 37-1/2@5 65 for common to choice, the great bulk of the offerings consisting of Nebraska sheep.

MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

NEW YORK, March 17.--Cattle--Steers sold at $6@7 25 per cwt, live weight; fat bulls $4 60@5 70; exporters used 60 car-loads, and paid $6 70@7 25 per cwt, live weight, for good to choice selections; shipments for the week, 672 head live cattle; 7,300 qrs beef; 1,000 carcasses mutton. Sheep and lambs--Receipts 7,700 head; making 24,300 head for the week; strictly prime sheep and choice lambs sold at about the former prices, but the market was uncommonly dull for common and even fair stock, and a clearance was not made; sales included ordinary to prime sheep at $5@6 37-1/2 per cwt, but a few picked sheep reached $6 75; ordinary to choice yearlings $6@8; spring lambs $3@8 per head. Hogs--Receipts 7,900 head, making 20,100 for the week; live dull and nearly nominal; 2 car-loads sold at $6 50@6 75 per 100 pounds.

ST. LOUIS, March 17.--Cattle--Receipts 3,400 head; shipments 1,600 head; wet weather and liberal receipts caused weak and irregular prices, and some sales made lower; export steers $6 40@6 90; good to choice $5 75@6 30; common to medium $4 85@5 60; stockers and feeders $4@5 25; corn-fed Texans $5@5 75. Sheep--Receipts 900 head; shipments 800 head; steady; common to medium $3@4 25; good to choice $4 50@5 50; extra $5 75@6; Texans $3@5.

KANSAS CITY, March 17--Cattle--Receipts 1,500 head; weak and slow; prices unsettled; native steers, 1,092 to 1,503 lbs, $5 05@5 85; stockers and feeders $4 60@5; cows $3 70@4 50. Hogs--Receipts 5,500 head; good steady; mixed lower; lots 200 to 500 lbs, $6 25 to 7; mainly $6 40@6 60. Sheep--Receipts 3,200 head; steady; natives, 81 lbs, $4 35.

EAST LIBERTY, March 17.--Cattle--Dull and unchanged; receipts 1,938 head; shipments 1,463 head. Hogs--Firm; receipts 7,130 head; shipments 4,485 head; Philadelphias $7 50@7 75; Yorkers $6 50@6 90. Sheep--Dull and unchanged; receipts 6,600 head; shipments 600 head.

CINCINNATI, O., March 17.--Hogs--Steady; common and light, $5@6 75; packing and butchers', $6 25@7 25; receipts, 1,800 head; shipments, 920 head.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are indicated with underscores. Punctuation and hyphenation were standardized. Missing letters within words were added, e.g. 'wi h' and 't e' were changed to 'with' and 'the,' respectively. Footnote was moved to the end of the section to which it pertains. Duplicate words, e.g. 'in in,' were removed.

Substitutions:

--> for pointing hand graphic. 'per' for a graphic in the 'Markets' section, e.g. 'lambs $3@8 per head.'

Other corrections:

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