Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-21
About Stock and Prices.
Pittsburgh Price Current, Nov. 1lth.

Pittsburgh Price Current, Nov. Hth.
The finest sugar-cured hams in market
are offered at retail at S@10c per pound.
New York shipped 194 head of cattle
alive last week and ,270 quarters dressed,
besides $50 carcasses of mutton.
Stock men who have been handling
hogs for twenty-five years tell US that
they never struck lower prices than now.
Every railroad leading to this market
now issues return passes to those bringing
stock over their lines. This is as it should |
be.
Fresh cows and springers are doing but |
little good at this time. The demand is |
very light, sales hard to make, and prices |
low. The current rates are from $25 to
$50 per head.
Retailers are getting but little satisfac-
ton out of butchers this week, as that
class of individuals are feeling pretty inde
pendent, knowing that th' game is large
| ly in their own hands.
! Drovers have generally been anxious TO
dispose of their cattle this week, even at
| the prevailing low prices. They don't
want to take them on through, for many
of them have "been there before"
Some of the heavy through shippers of
cattle frequently hold stock over from one
market to another, when the markets in
the East are unfavorable and thereis any
probability ofdoing better.
From our Southern Ohio exchanges we
learn that good many fat cattle are now
ready for market, and must soon be
shipped, as the grazing season is winding
up, and room must be made for younger
wintering stock.
The New York cattle market declined
about 25c per cwt. on Thursday and Fri
day, on account of an Oversupply, and just
in time to knock the bright anticipations
of some of our shippers higher than kite.
Such is life.
A gang of cattle thieves have been Oper-
ating for some time in VenangO county,
Pa, two of whom have been apprehended.
The prisoners confess to having stolen
seventeen head of cattle recently, two of
/ which had not yet been disposed of.
; We learn that good many persons are
: feeding hog in Ohio which were bought at
, PIC cents per pound. Unless something
out of the usual line should happen-a Eu-
rOpean war, for instance-their prospects
l on these hogs are none of the brightest.
, A reduction in feed rates has just been
2 made at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago,
= and at the National Stock Yards, st.
Louis. This is in keeping with the spirit
of the times, and may ultimately result in
the same step being taken by stock yards
| All over Tic COuuLFys
: The time for the finest sheep of the win
a ter has not yet come. As the holidays ap-
proach the arrival of the boss specimens
may be xpected--sheep weighing from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred
: pounds. These beauties usually make
their appearance about Christmas.
n A few lots of hogs were taken this week
i by Pittsburgh packers, who have been ac
Il customed to buy nearly all their hogs al
o ready slaughtered. Their reason for not
n buying live weight has been that they
f could buy slaughtered hogs farther West
! at lower figures. Now, however, that hog
IS are so unprecedentedly low, it seems to u
!, that they can buy live stock here at rate
t. which will yield them fair profit.
lr Among the other things affecting the 10
cal trade in fresh meats at this season o
D. the year is the abundance of poultry ant
" game now in market. To those who Civ
- the matter no attention this would seem t
70 be of small consequence, but it is indee
K a most serious obstacle in the way of tn
is sale of fresh meats. An immense amour
ct of poultry is consumed in the autumn an
- early winter months, and many who bu
II beef regularly the remainder of the yea
a scarcely visit the butcher at this season
at This will be kept up until after the holi
" days, until which time no great i'm
- provement in the retail trade need be ex
pected.
'e The run of cattle the latter part of la
of week and the first of this was extremel
pit heavy, shippers rushing in their stock
o. the hope of catching the recent advance
2 a hope which met with keen disappOin
nc ment. The advance, under this heav
or pressure, was soon lost, land cattle are no
0u fully as low as two weeks ago, with in
he mediate prospects which are anything bl
- fiattering. Many, many times has tt
" Price Current cautioned droyers against a
he lowing themselves to be carried away |
,r- sudden advances, but there are alwa,
he enough who disregard the warning
squeeze the life out of the advance in lie
les than a week. And thus "history repea
IS, itself -