Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-11
brighton Cattle Market,
For the week ending Wednesday, June 0

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From the Boston Journal.
At market for the current week-cattle
2423; sheep and lambs 4l36; WIN 1000;
number of Western cattle 2299; Northern
cattle and milch COWS 1876; Eastern cattle
Prices of beef cattle per 100 lbs, live weight
-extra quality $3.50 TO 500; first quality
ZOO to 1874; second quality 6.374 to 1854;
third quality $50 to 6.25 poorest grades of
coarse oxen, bulls, &c, $3.50 to 5.25.
Brighton hides 7c; Brighton tallow 6 TO
6ic per Id; country hides 6 to 61e; country
tlllow 5 to SIC per 10.
Calf skins IA to &C per Id; Shcared sheep
skins 35c each. ami skins SOC each Wool
sheep skins s. TO- each.
The trade this week has been quick and
prices upon all grades have advanced from
l TO 4c per Id. over our last quotations. The
quality of the beeves IN market was of full
us good grade As that of one week ago. Some
OF the best cattle sold ut u to 81 per ID.
There were but few northern cattle in mar
kct and none from Maine. Most of the cat
tie were sold before night on Tuesday.
Working Oxeu-Not much call for work.
eTs and but few pairs offered in market for
sale. Thetrade for working oxen will be
light until cattle come i'll more freely from
Maine and the northern states.
Store Cattle-Nearly all the small cattle
brought into market that are in Il fair condi-
ltOu Ut DOugnl up ny DulCntIs 10 SlluHulcI.
Mich Cows-Extra $50 to S95; ordinary
$25 to $55 per head. Most of the cows Of
fered in market for sale are of Il common
grade. Good COWS sell well at fair prices.
Sheep and Lambs-From the West the
supply was larger than that of one week ago.
all owned by butchers, costing landed at
Brighton 81 to &c per lib. Lambs IL to lac
prices same us those of one week ago.
Swine-Store pigs, wholesale 10 to l0Ic
per ID; retail 10 to l2c per lb. Fat hogs, ut
market 66OO; prices 81 to SIC per Id.
AT WATERFOWL.
Cattle-With the exception of Al head tho
supply was all Western cattle, owned by four
firms-William Colwell IL car loads, Hath
away & Swift 10 loads, X. Stewart IA loads,
Z. Leavitt 8 loads. X. Stewart had his ideas
pretty well up rs to the market, to an extent
hardly wal rantable; his lot of IA car loads
were about one-half Texas; was asking SIC
live, per Id for tops OF punches; couldn't sell
th0m ut this market mt that price and drove
them to Brighton. The best bunch of West
ern was sold by William Colwell mt 7ac, live,
to +. ID. Kimball. Not any cattle from the
North to speak of; II very few pairs changed
hands, and some 20 head of Mich cows.
We quote prices on cattle n good strong 4c
per lb live weight higher than last week. G..
W. Jones sold IA steers to j. ID. Prindle on
commission; 0 steers to j. +. Coward, aver
age iuoo IDS ~ 'sc HVei 0 Steers 10 =. " emit
worth ut 81 30 per cwt; 3 stays ut st.. W.
Kicker sold 2 oxen at l0ic dressed weight, to
dress 27O0 Id; their tails reserved for oxtail
soup. M. L. Shackett sold 2 oxen, to dress
1860 lbs each, ut Toe per ID, ID w. William
Colwell sold IA steers to +. ID. KImbalI,
average 1900 lbs, at 7ac; 30 steers to S. S.
Leanard mt 7ic; "a, average 1850, ut 74c; 90
at 7cs.
Sheep-The few focks were disposed of
early mt old prices, ONLY about 6 loads on
sale this morning at Union market. Most of
the spring lambs come from the West. We
quote prices firm without an advance. b.
Dow sold 30 spring lambs, average go lbs, ut
l04c per Id. b. +. Wood sold 1870 sheared
sheep, that weighed gross l4,97Q lbs, Mt SIC
per lb. Fred Fairbanks sold 90 sheared,
average 90 lbs, at Gle.