Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-02-13
STOCK ITEMS.

From the Pittsburg Price Current, Feb. 9Th.
One lot of sixty-eight sheep, averaging
137 pounds, were sold here on Tuesday at
$3.50 per cwt.
H. Dadisman, of Dadisman 6 Brown,
cattle buyers, has gone to Denver, Col,
to buy cattle and ship East.
The number of cattle sold in the retail
department fer the month ofJanuary was
2 ,667 head, or about one hundred loads.
The finest horses we have ever seen
shipped continue to pass through. They
are beautifully fed out and seem to be in
prime condition.
Joseph Steele, of Pickaway county, O.,
recently shipped 75 head of fine cattle di-
rectly to Boston, intending them for Eu-
ropean consumption.
The foreign shipments from New York
last week were 3I5 head of cattle, and
{, $50 qvarters of beef; 800 sheep and 200
carcasses of mutton; 200 head of hogs.
At the recent meeting of the American
Poland-China Breeders Society, at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, it was decided to issue the
first volume of the American Poland
China Record at once.
We have never seen as many old COWS
on the market as have been shipped in this
/ winter. The greater part Eof them, too,
1
ton, making pretty fair beef animals.
There was one bull sold here this week
that weighed about 2 800 lbs. for $43&, the
highe st price reached at this market this
season. Eight head would make carload.
! Yardage and scaleage is just as much for
a small animal as large one.
The English embargo on the export
cattle trade is having no appreciable effect
on business here, not being generally re-
garded as very serious matter. We think
no one need be alarmed over it. Send on
your stock and expect no trouble from
that source.
Sherman & Gillette, who shipped a
large cargo of fresh meat to England by
the steamship City of Brussels, have re-
covered $34 ,554. .03 damages from the In
man line, in consequence of the ice giving
out and the meat spelling and having to
be thrown overheard.
We learn that one load of hogs shipped
here weighed twenty-nine thousand
! pounds. This is certainly taking advan-
tage of the railroad company and abusing
! a privilege that is deserving of some re-
. spect. Shippers should be careful; for il
| is a few that brings trouble upon the
many that are innocent. The risk is GER
tainly great, and might break a car OF
! cause several hogs to be lost, which is gen.
orally the case in all heavy loaded cars.
The following pertinent remarks are
, from the spicy columns of the American
StOcEnGn:: elf feeders of cattle can per.
/ suade themselves to take full advantage O
f the abundant supply of cheap corn, by
putting every possible amount of fat up
, on their cattle, they will, we fully believe
. find a liberal reward for so doing in high
t er prices. By holding their stock bacl
: they will whet the appetite of the mar
v ket by relieving the trade of the burdel
t imposed by heavy supplies of stock of me
{ dium weights and quality"
g Now that there is good deal of excite
e ment and speculation in meats and grain
we would advise our country friends to b
careful lest there be a sudden reaction
, and heavy losses follow, as has been tn
: case frequently. Remember that thos
?, city rings made the bulk of their none
, off of those uninformed-not ignorant il
general, but in the ring working to sa
their money from them. No class of me
are more free to enter into chance spec
ulation than the drovers. They seem
y haYe become hardened to taking risks an
y are always ready for something new an
~ - promising, even if it be very uncertain.