Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-10-11
Boston Live Stock Market.
For the Week ending Wednesday Oct 9, 1857

For the Week ending Wednesday, Oct 9, 1867
Amount of Stock at Market.
Cattle Sheep. Shotes. Fat Hogs Veals
Last week, 1854 iO49O loo 4SIS Is
wear ago, 3640 l44U9 6l0 300 rs
PRICES.
BEEF-Per 100 lbs. on total weight of Hide,
Tallow and Meat, Extra, $3.50 $500 Firsi
quality, $1,000 a > l2,75; Second quality, Sl0,75
$ll,75; Third quality, $3.50 a $3.50; few
choice Western on commission $l3 90 a $l3,25
some of the poorest, Cows, Bulls, &C., $3.50 a
$500.
Working Oxen--Sl75 a 500; handy Steer
$l2O a $500, or mach according to their VaIue tCT
beef
Cows and Young Calves-Fair quality, $50
$75 extra, $50 500; farrow and dry, $40
s45
Stores-Thin you0g cattle for farmers-Year-
lings, $500 a $500; Two-year-old, $50 a IS.
Sheep-Per To-, live weight, 3 90 4c; extra,
600 a 600 cts. Sheep and Lambs, per head, in
lots, 81 rs a 81 90.
Fat Hogs Per h., ga a s IA cts, live
weight; Shotes-Wholesale, 0 90 a Gets; retail.
600 00-0cts.; Pigs, 600 a 90 cts per ID.
Veal Calves-SO,OO 10000.
HLdes-Brighton, 10 ID IL c. per h.; country
lots 10 a 10 ID cts.
Calf Skins-l6 a l8c.
Tallow--Brighton,S 90 a s l-2 cts per lb;coun-
try lots, 7 O-0a7 IL cts.
Pelts-$00,75 a $780, 80 each; country lots, 5000
Ill.
Wool, 5000 5000
REMARKs.-The meat market has been crowd
ed by the supply for several weeks past, which
has been borne quite patiently. with only grad
ual sinking Of prices, and slowly increasing de-
preston of trade The large number of nearly
$500 Western cattle, and 1900 Northern and
Eastern, seems to have brought matters to a
crisis, and the week-we have cattle trade nearly
every day lately-closes on duller trade and
lower prices than for long time. On Thursday
at Cambridge, we thought trade was a little
more spirited than on the previous week, and at
about the same prices. n. g. Batchelder sold 7
cattle at sc 40 SIX at l0c 80 SKI and others by
the head according to quality. G. w. BroNnell
sold at Sc to l0C per 10. J. w. Taylor sold one
premium pair fed by Solomon Spencer, of Spring
field, W.T. for Is l-2c, and other good steers at 10
TO l2c. At Brighton to-day and yesterday we
heard of no sales over Y l-2c, at which some
really extra, 1850 lbs. Western steers were sold,
and others according to quality down to sc 40
SIX and a lot of Texan cattle offered without
buyer at SC 40 SIX, There are lots of cattle yet
unsold, and from the stand taken by the butchers
10 now seems that further concessions must be
made by drOvers, or the stock cannot be disposed
of this afternoon; but then, the drOvers say,
there is another chance at Cambridge tomorrow.
There Is nothing new in the sheep trade. The
few best lots find market at fair price, while or
binary to slim lots are sold just as owners can
find buyers. o. L. Taylor sold 50 sheep at &c,
and 100 at 4c per b NJ. Pike one cosset at SO,
and a good lot of lambs at $3.50; Mr. Cole lO9
lambs at IS, %; Mr.. Conner 2l5 at s., II; F. Ri
ford So, So at S2,S7, small lots at 81, rs and
Upper head.
Alta meeting of drovers and butchers held at
Cambridge, Thursday, Oct 3, it was after discus
sion, voted to change market day back 10 Tues
day, on and after October 10. The vote stood Al
for Tuesday, u opposed. The vote Of drovers,
separately, was % for and IA against the return
TO Tuesday; buyers % for, and Is against