Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-08
STOCK ITEMS.

From the Pittsburg Price Current, May 1st.
Since the weather has become warm,
there is an improved demand for light,
neat, fat cattle for the butcher trade.
As1ow as hogs are here. reports show
this point than anywhere else in the
country.
An Iowa letter states that plenty of
June hogs are being fattened in that State,
and can be bought at about $3.50 per cwt.
The demand, now that the weather has
become warm and settled, is principally
for clipped sheep, which form perhaps
three-fourths of the offerings this week.
Good fresh COWS and springers are in
demand-but only good ones and sell
readily at $25@45 per head. Common
cows are not wanted, and bring only SIS
@2O.
For the last few months those shipping
East from this point have perhaps made
nothing, when the profit and loss ac-
counts are balanced-at least nothing like
compensation for their labor. Even
| with the heavy rebates enjoyed by some
! of them, but little has been left after the
| almost constant little losses have been
paid. However, the shippers stick to the
| business with persistence worthy of bet
ter fortune, though such discourage
ments would seem sufficient to chill the
ardor OF. the most sanguine.
Though spoken of several times before,
we must repeat the. advice to shippers TO
have their butcher cattle and their sheep
here at the beginning of the week. The
chances are then much better for profita-
bic sale.
The run of horses continues heavy. and
the prices obtained in the East must GER
Fnfr1 inn cAI,~
supplies which are constantly crowding
in that direction.
We are careful to exclude from our rep.
resentative sales all stock sold at retail
Some fine cattle were retailed this weeI
as high as six cents, but in reporting
; wholesale transactions we cannot legiti
mately include them.
J Large calves, weighing from 200 to 4Ot
, pounds, which are little too old for yea
and a little too young for beef, are no
selling for more than two-thirds as mucl
as good conditioned veals weighing 10t
to 100 pounds.
: In the first quarter of 1879 Meat In
, spector Lindsay conflscated l lame bul
lock, Is head calves, 700 pounds of veal
and $50 pounds of beef.
There is a good deal of talk Just nov
about the probable prices Of wool thi
| Hedson, anu dlInOugn IL Is yet TOO early Q
G announce anything positive about it, it
generally expected that they will not dif
l. Ter materially from those of last year.
we have had some remarkably well-fe
= caCtIe mere this week, and indeed this ha
oeen a subject Of remark. However, t
= tSHe tne run Of cattle right throug
the season, those arriving this spriSI
u have showed evidence of better feedin
than any seasons run we have ever seer
:. II Is this kind of feeding pays, and Amer
can farmers are coming to appreciate tn
IS fact.
y AS Eastern feeders. who are now sur
= plying large part Of the cattle at Philt
delphia, arc realizing better prices. tha
last spring, and withal have found la
g winters work quite profitable, they WI
at likely invest pretty literally in stocEe
az and feeders after the season is farther AZ
vanced. This, when the proper tin
IL comes, will no doubt create quite a d
mRnd for that class of stock,