The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-09-06
MARKETS..
STANTON MARKET, SEPT 6. 1877.
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY O. A. RICHARDSON.
WHOLESALE PRICES.



ALEXANDRIA CATTLE MARKET. Aug. Sl.-Prices to
day ranged as follows:
cattle, very DeSt.. ........................5 @5M
0OOu 4A910
Medium or fair. ...........................4 k@4z
Thin Steers and oxen .'''...'..''''' XII
........... g9
Lambs 5oasi Is per head. or 5asc per h. <@''
cows and Calves ss5 to SIS o'ses' "A
The market was well supplied with Beef Cattle
tops having fallen off fully bc or i. more. Veal
Calves were not so numerous, and prices have
advanced shade. sheep and Lambs were in
as last week. Hogs dull and nominal at quotations
Cows and calves in good supply, and prices un-
changed. Market dull.
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, August S0-Beeves
Receipts 2577 head. Prime and extra steers
were in good demand. and prices were fraction
native steers and for Texas and Cherokee Cattle
generally there was no Improvement, and prices
were about the same as previously reported
per ID dressed fair to good do from 10ha1lh and
q few selected steers sold at ll%al2c. About IS
changed hands at 8as%c. Not far from 200 Cattle
were taken for export.
Calves-Receipts 1893 head The demand was
fair and the market moderately active and firm
at 6a8Ac per lib for ordinary to choice veals and
a4c for common to decent buttermilk Calves.
III
mand was fair, and prime and extra grades were
fully NC per 10 higher. Common to prime sheep
Ms Re Sc Rsms lambs at
Dressed hogs ranged from es to TIC per lib.
market this week was quiet, but the receipts OF
Beef Cattle show an increase, reaching about $50
We're seep asg
Sheep at 4a5c per lib. and lambs at 2aS4 per head.
few cows and calves 20a$50 per head.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Aug, 29-Beef-cattle
1PriGes to-day range as follows:
Generally Gene Sys rated first ouaiitv 5s@ *
Ordinary thin Steers. Oxen and Cows 8 500 IS
General average OF the market.........0 O0@ 90
Extreme range OF prices. . 500 rs
Most OF the sales were from ............3 75@ 50
Total 81, receipts for the week 29Ol head. Total
With much fuller supply this week than the
market needed, sales were effected very slowly,
and then only concession on last week figures,
quality Of the offerings averaged better than last
week. the line OF good cattle being more extend
ed. ana there being fewer common ones in pro-
week coverings showed. The decline effected
was haAc. the best grades suffering the least.
figure than So rs per hundred pounds. Several
hundred head were left over :unsold, and will be
prices OF last week hard to get, say 40a$5O with
few choice at $55 per head.
-, Sheep and Lambs The only kind of stock in
the market this week that has not been dull OF
sale has been good fat sheep, which have not
There has been but little doing with Lambs,
stock and poor butcher sheep. We quote sheep
az 4a4Ac, and few at &c per Id gross. Stock
sheep 5ea$3 so per head. Lambs 4a5Ac, with a
few at SIC per lb gross. Receipts this week
5941 head.
Hogs-The market has been rather sluggish
OF the demand, which has not been very active at
any time. Under the influence OF the full supply
the prices OF last week have not been sustained
and we have to record decline OF near Nc. The
quality continues good comparing favorablywith
That OF last weeks receipts. We quote at 7a7hc
per ID, with a few choice a shade higher. Re
ceipts this week 1903 head.