The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31


until mess pork was 50c to zoe per brl and
lard &c to &c lower. Demand mainly on local
speculative account; with comparatively few
orders received. The market however closed
firmer and with more favorable outlook.
Mess pork closed at $18.75 to $18 80 for cash
$3.50 for January and $19.15 to $19171 for
February. Lard closed at $13 90 to $500 for
cash. and $13 321a to 1913 IS for March. Meats
steady and firm.
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle market steady. and firm, with no
difficulty in obtaining relatively good prices
for good stock; quality medium closing at
$3.50 to 5000 for fair to choice steers, and
1926 to $6.75 for extra. Stock cattle steady
and in moderate demand at $3.50 to 81. 20
stock steady at $3.50 to $3.50 for
common to good lots. Through Texans
$1.75 to 1915. Corn fed 1915 to $4.75.
Hogs very dull and lower. notwithstanding
the meagre receipts. Quality only fair.
Packers doing but little, closing at Sc. 90 to
6.60 for light, and $670 to $40 for heavy
Sheep steady and firm with good shipping
demand at $500 to $3.50 for poor to extra.
DRESSED HOGS, HIGHwINEs AND SEEDS.
Dressed hogs opened firm at 500 to $40
for light to heavy; but ruled weaker, declin-
ing to $3.50 to $7.70 Right and 49, 00to So Is
for heavy. Pigs sold at $500, closing steadier
Highwines closed steady and firm at 971c for
| iron bound packages. Seeds were very quiet ;
demand light. Timothy quotable at 81 lao to
$2.55. Glover $5 so to $3.50. Flax $3.50 to
$500. Hungarian 75c to SOC Millet zoe to 75c
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
| AS usual the holiday trade was quite active,
but the distribution of goods was mainly on
mail order account and largely in the fancy
goods line. The attendance of interior buy
ers was light but there were a
good many local BUYERS present
Dry goods sold to o fair extent at former
prices. Boots and shoes selling quite freely.
Coffee firm at the outside price for choice
Rio-24c being we'll maintained. Sugars were
easier; Standard "a" 10$c. Grain bags re-
main dull, with but little inquiry. Building
materials were slow sale. Oranges firm at
$l2 per brl for Louisiana. Fish dull and
weak. Hay was SOC to 81 per ton lower.
Lumber remains very quiet 81 to $12 for
common mixed, fencing, etc. Leather
quiet. Nails selling to fair extent
at $3623 rates. Oils steady and firm. Salt
>steady and firm at Sl IS to $500. Wool steady,
but firm. The stocks are light, while the
shipments continue in excess OF the receipts.
Prices steady.
! PRODUCE MARKETS.
Butter quiet and prices easier. Good to
choice roll, % to CSC. Packed butter, 22c to
32c for fair to extra grades. Beans, $125 to
$1-0O Tor common Western to choice Eastern.
Beeswax, 27c to 28c. Cheese in fair demand
and prices steady at 14c to 154c for good to
choice and 7c to 1870 for common to fair. Eggs
were dull local dealers about the only buyers.
Sales at 24c to 25c for fresh new 15c to zoe
for picked. Game was dull at $50 90 to $50 25
Tor prairie chickens $500 for ducks, and
$l;OO per doz for rsbbits. Apples Glow sale
at 75c to So 80 for common to selected. Hides
steady and firm at 7&c to Sc for green frozen
l5c to l6c for calf l8c to 19c for dry flint.
Hops steady and firm at Csc to size for fair to
prime. Honey quotable at zoe to 25c per tb /.
Poultry was dull and slow. Chickens, Sc to
&c per ID; $500 to $500 per doz; turkeys,
DC to Sc per 10, ducks, $500 to $4 90 per doz,
and geese Sc. 90 to $1,000. Potatoes qaet at
75c to 90c for fair to choice peachblows. Vege-
tables quotablo at So so to $50 so per brl for
red to yellow onions, and 35c to 4Oc per bu
for turnips. Veal dull at 4c to Sc per Id.