Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-26
Brighton Cattle Market,


For the week ending "wednesday, Feb. IA.
From the BOSTON Journal
AZ market for the current wppk-cattle
l44O; sheep aud lambs 625e; SWINE 5000
number Ut Western cattle 1928; Northern
callle AMI milch cows ITO. T. ,stern cattle AZ.
Prices of beet cnttlrp per 100 lbs. live weight
extra quality $3.50 tu 8 90: first quality
$40 Ia 7.35; second quality O.25 to 682I
third quality 5.25 to 81; poorest grades of
coarse oxen, bulls. &c, SO. SO to 500.
Brighton hides ~; Brighton u,llow &C. !;
eonntry hides to S4c; country tallow to
SIC per lb.
Calf skins IA to l5c per Id. Sheep and
lamb skins Sl.25 TO LIS each.
Tho sales of cattle are ~ follows, live
weight being understood: j Stetson, IA, av-
erage 1867 lbs, at 81. 10, do, o, average 1927
1T &c. do, 10, average 1874, at Tie; Stetson
| d Fitch, 10, average l2ii mt 84c, do, s, aver
age 1899, Mt 7c, do, ., average 1890 ut &c !;
Fitch d McMurtry 81, average 1907, mt &c.
do, 10, avelage 1903, ut So 10, co. q. average
1913, at 5lc; Hathaway a. Swift, is. average
1866, at 70, do 80, average 1919, at &c, do,
30, average 1869. ut 1Ac, do, 30, average 400,
ut 73c; A n Monroe, is, average 1857, ut
$40, do, 81 average 1903 ut 10, do, 20, av-
ernge l4l2, ut 7c, do. 49, average 1900, ut 6lc,
do, Ia average 1855, 1T Gle, do, 8, average
ll95, mt &c; Sculans 4 McFlynn, Z, average
l4l0, ut 7iu, do, Ia, average 1854.
The supply Of cattle in market for the
week has buen the lightest of that for
several weeks past. Cattle cost higher mt
the West, and beeves sold mt IN advance of
fully 1c per 10 over last weeks prices. The
trade has not tween so lively AS il is some
weeks, rs the butchers say that the beef mar
ket ut Boston Will not warrant I'm advance
In prices unless it improves over that of the
last week.
Working Oxen. Not much call for them.
A few pairs each week is all the mar ket re-
quires at present. We quote sales of pr,
| girth Fl 4 in, live weight 34O0 lbs, sl05: 1
pr, #, live weight 300 lbs, $3.50; pr, 7 n,
| live weight, 3l0O lbs, Sls5; pr, o # IN,
live weight 5000 lbs, Sl65; l pr, 6 # in,
| live weight 1850 lbs, $3.50
Store catte-1earlings Sll to l5; two
year-olds 10 to 90; three-year-olds rs to so
per head. Prices of small cattle depend
much upon their value for beef, nearly all
that are IN II fair condition being bought up
to slaughter.
Mich cows-Extra SOS to 90; ordinary 25
to 90; store COWS IL to As per head. Mich
| COWS do not vary much from week to week
Good cows always command fair prices.
Sheep and Lambs-FrUm the West there
was far supply, all owned by butchers,
costing landed mt Brighton from 81 to 71c.
| There are but few Western sheep or lambs
offered in market for sale. From the North
| the supply was light and prices obtained
from tO Ae per Id higher.
Swine-No store pigs in market. Fat
| hogs, 5000 in market; prices s tn Sic.
AT WATERFOWL.
! Cattle. The stock ut market were all
| Northern and river cattle. As head from the
river, fair 10 good steers and oxen. The
supply being light, butchers were not drtain-
ell but II short time at market. The river
cattle sol from 81 to Zoe per lii dressed
weight. There is not any marked change in
prices. We find the trade II little duh, pvon
on the few ear loads marketed. Ii II Al
| drich sold 2 oxen, To dress 1850 lbs each; .
oxen, Ia dress 1860 lbs, at 9Ic, ID w. b Dow
sod oxen, to dress 1000 lbs each, III 81, ID
| w. Jones sold 8 steers, to dress $50 lbs
each, at 94c. w Ii Bardwell sold oxen at
lO4c. ID w. Hl tng>, Campbell d Co sold
6 oxen at l0ic w.
| Sheep. The sheep trade is shade better
| than noticed for number of weeks past
| Prices for the past month or SIX weeks have
been very unsatisfactory to the owners, and
the advance of &c on the light supply will not
he maintained probably another week. G A
Sawyer sold "a sheep. average 70 lbs. G. f
Griswold sold 81 sheep ut 71c. A Fowler
soda likely flock, fed by William Skinner,
of Royallon, Vt, to j b Thomas ut 7gc, that
weighed on the scales $3.50 lbs.
Poultry. No arrivals noticed this week.
| We quote good marketable chickens and
turkeys at l5c, and fowl ut l4c; old hens l3c.