Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-11-06
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From the Pittsburg Price Current, Oct. 80, 1879.
The Chicago Fat Cattle Show will open
on Monday, November 10, and continue
six days, closing on the 18th.
This has been the banner week of the
season and of the last five years in the
number of cattle offered for sale.
Much trouble is being experienced in
Chicago now to secure sufficient cars for
| the transportation of cattle eastward.
New York cattle buyers did little bet
ter on the last shipment or two, and are
| operating this week with more confidene.
Cattle and sheep are selling a shade
stronger than in the last week in OCto-
Der, 1873, and hogs 65@75c per cwr.
| higher than at that time.
A heavy snowfall is reported to have
occurred on Monday in that region of
country lying about one hundred and
| twenty-five miles north of Pittsburg.
Exporters shipped only 40 head of
live cattle and no live sheep to Europe
last week. Dressed meats: 4, $50 quarters
of beef, 1850 carcasses of mutton, and
$50 dressed pigs
A really prime lot of cattle will gener-
ally bring $500 per cwt. and upward, let
the conditions of the market be what it
may. There has not been a time for
months when this was not the case.
Drovers who buy hogs for this weeks
prices will very likely be disappointed,
as it is hardly probable that the Novem-
Der trade will start off at present tigers.
Our advice to all inclined to run the risk
is-dOn't.
Small pork packers are everywhere pre-
pairing for an increacad business this
winter, being we'll satisfied with the re-
suits of last winters work. When the
returns are footed up next spring it will
be seen that hundreds of head will have
been absorbed by these local packing
; house.
Farmers who have tried both plans oi
: trading, that is selling to drovers or shin
ping to market, generally find that the
: transaction with the drover is the more
= satisfactory of the two. The drOVer
s will usually pay as much as
s stock can be shipped for, and even ir
: buying and selling at the same rate the
farmer does, will nearly always come
D out alittle better than. his less experienced
: neighbor who tries the market for him
d self.
% Be careful not to consider your stool
better than it is. The difficulty whicl
- stockmen have in determining the prope
= grade of cattle when seen by themselves
g frequently results in loss when the stool
= is shipped. A case of the kind occurred
l. this week, in which a farmer win
brought two car loads of cattle though
he had prime stock until he came to com
s' pare it with other lots on the market
n He had naturally made his calculation
:, for higher price than he received, an
:. was disappointed in consequence.
} Vice President Wheeler is i'll with Al
IS liberated sore throat at his home, a
= Malone, Ny.
d An English clergyman recently com
Is mitted suicide in the Isle of Wight b,
e sliding down a cliff 900 feet high.
n Surgeons son Thomas is going to Aus
tralia as an evangelist, His health i
+, poor, and the change is expected to ben
= eft him.
IS General Grand will pass the Christina
V holidays at Washington, as the guest c
n General Beale, who was short time [
1t S. Minister to Austria.
y Senator Wade Hampton made a cor
20 servative speech at Greenville, S. c., tn
other night, in the course of which
2 said: elf we do not do some FOOLS
- things during the next session of Cor
gress-and l admit we sometimes do yer
y foolish things-we can elect Democrat
le President next election