Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-09
STATE OF ONO, Clark County, IS.
stock Items.
From the Pittsbnrg Price Current. Jan. End. 1879
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From the Pittsburg Price Current, Jan. End, 1879
1919 pounds, sold on Monday for $4.75
per cwt.
According to the Cincinnati Price Car
rent pork packing up to Christmas day
was about 1925, 900 head in excess Of
1877.
Hogs are now being bought here for
Baltimore and Washington City and
driven across to the B. 6 R. R. for ship
ment.
A few cattle are beginning to arrive
from the far West. Soon the bulk of our
supply must come from the States beyond
Ohio.
The difference between a merchant and
butcher is that the former 'stakes stock''
but once or twice year, while the lat
ter does so every week.
The premium fat eve at the Chicago
| Show, belonging TO Mckay Brothers, In
| dianapolis, weighed 42O pounds and will
be three years old next spring.
| Tuesday was one of the most quiet days
in the Yards that we have seen; all
seemed to be content to do little or moth
| ing and wait for something new to turn
up.
| IF you want your stock TO arrive here
in the best possible condition, have per-
| sonal supervision of it from the time it
leaves home until it is in the wholesale
pens.
In the last two weeks there has been
| very little demand for stockers, but we
think that after the holidays country buy
ers will come in more freely and the de-
mand will be better.
A few of our Philadelphia buyers left
our market last week and went to the
country to buy their cattle. Several loads
were purchased, and from what we car
learn they were but little if any cheaper
than those bought here.
Christmas times and holidays of al
kinds, as well as smash-ups and bloGkadet
on the roads, have a tendency to unsettle
trade and occasion more losses than gains
to either the Western shipper or those
who buy for the Eastern markets.
The wholesale slaughtering business ii
New York is either very Improbable thi
winter, or is badly managed; or the op
orators are heavily loaded with old debts
There must be some good reason for tht
continued failures reported from thai
point.
} I. L. Abraham, a Louisville butcher, re-
! Gently purchased from Kentucky far.
mer Cotswold eve weighing $50 pounds
! at 10 cents per pound. A farmer hat
5 better devote his feed and care to twenty
/ fine specimens of stock than waste it Oh
3 a hundred scrubs.
2 Some are predicting that the run o
: hogs will soon fall off considerably ant
! prices will advance. There is no doub
9 but the runs will he lighter and prices ad
vance little, but not so much as man!
} expect. II should be borne in mind tina
! there is great deal of pork packed ant
3 at very low figures. This will all hav'
I to be sold, and packers will be slow t.
pay much advance until the low stock i
sold off.
The local shipments for New York OF
I Wednesday were the lightest we have haC
on that day for some time.
A few loads of cattle were purchases
by local buyers with the intention o
wholesaleing them for little profit; bu
they failed to do it, and were compellet
to ship or lose money here.
The retail cattle trade for the month 0
December reached 2,235 head, notwith
standing the fact that this month included
. the holidays, and is the greatest month il
8 the year for poultry. The total numbe
s of cattle sold at retail for the quarter end
: ing December 81 was 6,295 head. Th
8 trade for the preceding quarter was 800
: head, showing an increase for the las
10 quarter SOB head, or about 35 loads. TIL
aggregate for the last six months w0ul
be IL .987 head.