Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-24
Boston Live Stock Market.
CAMBRIDGE AND MEDFORD
For theWeek ending Wednesday, Apr. p. 1868
Amount of Stock at Market,

Cattle. Sheep. Shotes, FatHogs Veal,
Inns his , week 165S 394o 000 2500 GOO
PRICES.
BEEF-Per 100 lbs. on total weight of Hide
Tallow and Meat, Extra, $500 $3.50, Firsi
quality, Sl4,25 a ) 1915; Second quality, Sl3,5C
a Sl4,00; Third quality, $1,000 a $500; a few
choice single pairs, $1,000 $O0,00 some OF the
poorest, Cows, Bulls, &c, Sll,00 $1,000.
Working OXen--NOminals $500 a S3l5; han
dy Steers 800 a $500, or much according tC
their value as beef.
Cows and Young Calves-Fair quality, $40
500; extra, $40 500; farrow and dry, S37 {
$50.
Stores-Thn young cattle for farmers-Year
fngs, 10000 a 10000; Two-year-old, 500 500
Threc-y ears-Old, 500 90.
Sheep-Per h., live weight, 6 a 8 O-0c; extra
S LA 000-0 cts. Sheep and Lambs, per head
in lots, 1915 5000
Fat Hogs Per h., 10 IA a 10 ga cts, live
weight; Shotes-Wholesale, 0 90 a 0 cts; retail
0 90 10 00cts.; Pigs, 0 90 a 0 90 cts. per ID.
Veal CalveS-S3,00 a $1,000.
HIdes-BrightOn, 0a9 lie. per b.; country
OtS - 9 90 cts.
Calf Skins-l6 a lSc.
Tallow--Brighton, IL a O-0cts peril coun-
try lots, LA 90 cts.
Pelts-S2, % a -, 80 each country lots dry.
so, Is a 81 %; Lambs 90 a 00c shOrn 90 a 00c
each. Wool, 5000 5000.
hEh hIkAD.--Ol JllC tdJllt Ut IldIhGl IllS
week, 30 are from Maine, 81 from New Hamp-
SHIRE 1877 from Vermont, SO from Massachusetts
81 from Canada and 1910 from Albany, being the
largest number of Western for several weeks
past. There were also about 40 head over from
last market, making the total on sale l7I2. The
butchers have been unable to sustain prices in the
city wholesale trade in beef, and on some days
during the past week were obliged to recede
about one dollar per hundred pounds on the side.
Consequently they have insisted on something
like similar reduction in the price of cattle, and
the result is drovers have been obliged to submit
to a reduction of 50 CTS to 81 per 100 lbs. Their
reluctance to do this on cattle that were bought
on the credit 70 the markets of the past two
weeks has resulted in a slow, sticky trade. The
receipts of Northern cattle at Cambridge this
week amounted to 3S5, besides four or five lots
of Western sent over from Brighton and sold at
l3 to IA lie. per h. OF the Western at Brigh-
ton were sold at 16c, at Is lie, % at Is l-4c
6S at 15c, So at IA l2c, IS at lac, at Is 34c "a
at Is 2c l6 at l3c, and 81 at 10 l4c, live weight
The allowance for appeal was also more liberal
than last week, although the quality of the stock
was no better. We saw no Northern oxen sold
over 15c per h., and but few at that. Fair oxen
at IA lac to IA 1-2c; lighter oxen, steers and
cows at Is to l4c., and slim animals at lie to l2c
per 10. The stock at Cambridge was not all sold
yesterday forenoon and at Brighton the trade was
equally dull. The best lots of Western, some OF
them very superior, are not sold at the close OF
this report.
The market is just about as unfavorabe for
Northern Sheep as for cattle. The Western sheep
are nearly all delivered by the drovers on COM
mission, and are taken by the butchers directly
from the cars. We have seen none about the
yards at Brighton for some time, and consequent
ly!bntohers are buying Northern sheep half a
drovers are much dissatisfied with the state OF
the market. Some took their droves over tC
Brighton, while others hired the butchers to
market them on commission. One lot of shorn
yearlings were reported at &c per Id. Most lots
at to cents per lib.