The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-13
Closing.
Opening.
LIVE STOCK.

LIVE STOCK.
The cattle market has been fairly active and
steady, with no important changes to note.
Receipts materially lighter and quality good.
Shipping steers, s5.25(06.30; fair to choice,
| $6.5006.7 rs for extra. Bulk of sales to ship
pers at $6.00@6.25. Stock cattle steady at
| $4.00005.00. Butchers stock dull at $4,000
$50 for poor to choice $300Q0375 for inferior.
| Hogs dull and 200O35c lower. Workers, $1,000
! IT'S; heavy, $7.50@8.25. Quality poor. Bulk
of sales at $7.3007.75. Sheep steady and
| quiet at $3.00W5.00 for shorn and S5.00W6.50
for wooded
PROVISIONS.
| There was a fairly active business transacted
! in this market on speculative account, but the
| feeling under unfavorable advices from the
East and Europe was rather easier. The ar
rivals of hogs were also liberal and this aided
somewhat in the depreciation of values. Quo
tations of mess pork ranged at $2l. 5502l.6 %,
and $21. 55021. 80 seller June; seller July sold
at $21. 90(022.05, and closed easy. Cash lard
quiet but steady at $1540@15.45. Seller May
closed at $15.40@15.4215, and seller June at
$15.50@1555.
SEEDS AND HIGHwINEs.
There was considerable activity in the seed
market, but the interest manifested was cen
tered chiefly in Hungarian. During the early
part of the week. there were numerous outside
orders on the market for the above named seed
of the week, the demand was less urgent and
the market closed rather easy. Timothy was
quiet but firm at $225@2.45 for fair to prime
and 50. 50012. 55 for choice; clover firm at $500
for prime medium, and $7.75 for mammoth;
Hungarian sold at $1.4O(01.6 for prime, clos
ing at about $1.40; miilet quotable at $1.45@
1.50 for fair. The offerings of highwines were
light and the market for this reason ruled quiet.
Closed at about 81. Is for spot.
PRODUCE.
There was good demand for butter and the
upply of choice grades was barely sufficient to
meet the requirements of the trade. Prices
were firm, but ne material alteration
noticeable. Fresh made quotable at 160018c
for fair streaked and white colored, and 900
26c for good to choice. Old butter ranged at
l10016c for poor to fair, and sales of roll were
made at 1215(020c according to quality. In
broom corn the movement was rather light, but
prices remain steady at 111501419c for No.
to extra hurl and 11@13c for good to choice
stalk. Beans were trife frmer toward the
close Of the week, but there was no increase
in the amount of business transacted. Quot
able at $1.70001.75 for eastern mediums in
bags, and about $1.80(D1.85 for the same in
barrels. Western were dull at $1.00@1.75 for
poor to good. Beeswax quotable at 26(G28c.
There was a fair local demand for prime old
factory cheese and choice new at about 15(016c
for the former, and 13@1315c for the latter
but the common grades were dull and slow
brl for poor to choice cultivated, and $4,000
BIS for boxes containing one bu. Choice sweet
cider was in moderate request at $5.75M6.00
per brl; common was very difficult to sell.
Dried fruits were dull and very quiet. Apples
quotable at about 815c for Michigan and New
York, and at 7(D715c for Southern. Halves
peaches quotable at 5000, and blackberries
at 95l@10c. Eggs were rather weak and the
market closed at about 13 (O1316c. There was
some Improvement shown in green apples, and
prices were shade higher. Sales ranged at
$2.50@2.75 for choice in lots, and $3.00@3.50
was paid in retail way according to the
quality Hides were dull at TIC for heavy
green sailed and SC for light do calf about
12(01216c. Hay was in demand and firm at
$16.00M19.50 for No. 2 to prime timothy, and
$900Q015.00 for fair to prime prairie.
Potatoes steady and firm quotable at
95(098c for Eastern peachblows in car lots, and
$10501.10 for the same from store. Western
peachblows sold at 80090c in lots. Eastern
Early Rose slow at zoe in car lots, and 80(090c
from store. There were less onions and tur-
nips offered on the market and prices under
fair demand were firmer. Sales were made at
$25003.00 per brl for onions, and 50@65c per
bu for rutabaga turnips. Veal was dull, the
market being largely overstocked with common
carcasses; quotations range at 4(08c for common
to choice.
CooPERAGE, LUMBER AND WOOD.
Cooperage met with fair demand for the
packing descriptions, and prices were shade
firmer. The offerings we're only moderate, and
quotations range at $1.1215 for pork barrels,
$1.40 for lard tierces, $1.90@2.1O for whisky
barrels, and 45@55c for flour barrels. The ar
rivals of lumber were quite liberal, but there
was good country and local demand, and the
market ruled fairly active and firm; quotable at
So. so per 1000 feet for joist and scantlng and
$8.5O@14.0 90 for strips and boards in cargo lots
according to quality. Trade in wood was rather
light, but the supply snot excessive, and prices
remain unchanged. Quotable at $7.5 per cord
for hickory and maple, $3.50 for beach, and Sc
for slabs at the yards.