Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-22
Boston Live Stock Market.
CAMBRIDGE AND MEDFORI
For the Week ending Wednesday, Dec. 10. 1868.
PRICES.

PRICES.
BEEF-Per l0OIbs. on totalweigh of Hide
Tallow and Meat, Extra, $l3, 90 Sl3, so; First
quality, $ll so ) 1915 Second quality, SIC. 81
a Sll,OO; Third quality, $500 $1,000.
One or two lots best Western, 1875 $l4,00
Poorest, Cows, Bulls, &C., $500 $500.
Working Oxen--Nominals $40 1870 han
dy Steers ana sl,n oAen, R75 a 5000, or mucL
according to their value as beef.
Cows and Young Calyes-Fair quality S35a
$40; extra, $75 800; farrow and dry, $50
$50.
Sheep-Per h., live weight, lie; extra
600 000-0cts. Shorn, 0 90 0 0-0c Sheep ant
Lambs, per head. in lots, 81, 90 a $3.50.
Veal Calves-S0,00 10000.
Hldes-Brighton, 10 LA lie. per lb; country
OTIS 10 10 l-2 cts.
Calf Skns-l8 20c.
DECENTRALIZATION, 9 90 a l-2cts perb; coun-
try lots, l-2 90 cts.
Pelts-S0,S7 Sl,25 each; country lots dry
1915 a SJ87, Lambs 90 a 0Oc; shorn 90 a O0c
each. Wool, 50, 5000
Shotes-Whoiesaic, II II 90 cts; retail
! 0 90 a 90 CTS. H. Young Pigs, 10 90
Ii IL cts. Fat Hogs-9l-4 9 IL cts. 10.
Siores-Fhn You q cattle for farmers-Year
! iings, $1,000 a $500; rwo-year-old, $50 S45
! Fhree-y ears-old, 40 a So.
REMARKS Of THE SALE OF CATTLE
! Tuesday, Dec. l., 1868-There were aboul
$40 cattle Al Cambridge and Medtord to-
day-mostiy ordinary stock The Yer
mont Central train with some 800 cattlt
and 2000 sheep due last Wednesday wa
detained by the snow, and did not arriv,
in season for our last report. These wert
offered for sale at Brighton on Thursday,
where the market closed out rather dull,
the amount of stock appearing to be some
what in excess Of the demand. The COM
paratlyely large number of northern stock,
with some 90 western cattle, at Cambridge
to-day seem to have given the butchers the
advantage in trade, and inspired the be-
lief that the patient walters Will be no los
ers this week. Three good markets in sue
cesslOn are as many as the drOvers ought
to expect, and the usual succession OF a
poor one should have been guarded against
this week. The ebb and flow of the tide
of old ocean are scarcely more regular than
those Of the cattle market Whether the
moon causes one, and spectators" the
Other, are questions not yet settled by the
debating clubs. But it is settled by the
droyers that there is great difference in
the navigation of this market between an
ebb and flow in the tide of trade Though
there may be nominally but little differ
ence in prices there is a difference in esti-
mates, IN shrlnkage, &c, which tells in the
pages Of the 'pass-bOok' in which the
: weeks operations are recorded. From such
causes, in operation at Cambridge to-day
some of the droVers say there is a difference
of to | cent per h., on their stock com
pared with last Tuesday. The same caus
d es. however, affect buying a. well aa sell
: ing, and the butchers say that the differ
ence is mainly in the inferior quality OF
the stock which the drOyers brought thi
- week in consequence of the better trade OF
the past two markets. But account for tn,
fact as we may, cattle have not sold a
readily as last Tuesday.
j. Wednesday, Dec. 16.-There were SOM
/ 500 cattle over the northern roads to-day
including some which arrived last Thurs
S day. Stock arrives on 50 many DAYS in tn
) week, and so irregularly, that it is Difficult
: to keep track OF them or to ascertain tn
exact number. There was some talk 0
changing the Vermont Central back to ia
old time, but we do not know on what au
: thority that talk was based The incon
T. venience of the present arrangement is oh
" vious enough to all who attend Cambridg
y market. There We're but comparativel
d few butchers about the yards to-day, an
trade is no better than yesterday, whic
closed up even more untavOrably to tn
drovers than We represented it to be in tn
forenoon. Several lots of the nOrther
cattle, from Canada and Northern Ne,
ID York are small stock or store cattle, sti
the number OF those offered as beef is larg
P, this week, and tor ordinary to tair qualitlt
d of northern sheep, we think there Is d,
cline ofnearIy &c per h., while a tewve
- pest animals bring tull prices The ma
ket appears 10 be rather 0verstocked wit
common cattle.
" The number u? cattle received at Brigl
ION ior the week appears to be 1871 ives
ern, ana from Name 200, with about !
state catt.e. Inc quality OF the wester
cattle Is good al top and bad at bottom
with lack OF fair to good steers. "
have not seen 50 many extravagantly GOO
cattle at Brighton at amy one market Tor
long time; ana we doubt whether we ev
saw 50 many at one time. This class {
builocks deserve separate chapter, and
special characteristic which may be e
pressed as holiday buliocks, oil which Ne
ton x Wales purchased % Tor Saunders
Hartweil, part or all from Kentucky
one monster OK weighed 1900 pounds /
fore he crossed Mason & Dixon's Line
averaged 1000 pounds each; % averag
1902 pounds, and the balance were 1
much behind in weight, or in quality