The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-19

clining tendency and started prices on the up
ward turn, the average for August being
about 81 p per 100 lbs. As the summer season
gradually grew near TO close the market be-
the ST ok of both summer and winter cured
product at the opening of the regular season
the these South had cut on temporarily. at least, a
large portion of the usual active con Jump
eirn friends and customers were Inclined to
proceed with caution, and were not disposed
to contract heavily for the future. preferring
to hold back and send in their orders as they
were required, and the inactivity in the pro-
vision trade naturally reacted on the hog mar
ket, and prices reached the lowest point of the
summer season. So Is per leo lbs. baipg the
erage for the month OF O5tober. The receipts
for this month increased to 4siSls, and the av-
ting with more freedom. while many were
getting their houses in readiness Tor the open :
ing Of the winter season.
THE CATTLE TRADE.
No little interest is felt throughout the West
in the discussions relating to the shipment
and disease of cattle. The New York journal
of Commerce says:
The owners of infected or suspected cattle
are asking the Legislature to indemnify them
in future for the loss of animals when killed
by order of the State authorities. A bill has
been introduced in the Assembly 10 amend
the law to this effect. The claims should be
right that these losses should be made good to
the owners whose cattle ara slaughtered TO
pie,ng bis nPincple of the
State officers would feel more free than at pres
ent to extirpate the disease by radical meas
struction of other persons property when
they know that no compensation Will
Determination, which orsht to be pur-
sued among all h5:ds Where the disease
mas broken * oIe, TemPd1g maze ae
isolate herds and watch them and prevent the
maiady from passing some real or imaginary
Gordon. This plan has never been wholly
successful through want of vigilance, or be-
cause the viewless air is the medium by which
for aught we know The only sure treatment
is the speedy death of every group of cattle
among which pleuro-pneumonia has shown
itself. This seems an expensive remedy-when
the state pays for the cattle slain-but IL may
cost no more than The maintenance of q long
quarantine, with salsried men in attendance,
and medicines and disinfectants freely used
for the same herd. At the Blissville stables
the bills for quarantine in IL days were at
least $500 it is said, and there is no certainty
that the disease Will be checked at that point.
III the law were amended TO provide for the
payment, in whole or part, of the losses sus-
taiued by stock owners in cattle killed for the
public good, the hesitation which now pre-
vents the slsughtering of animals, out of re-
gard to their owners, would cease. and with 1t
much of the useless quarantine also. The ex-
ton. Tbs main thing is to expei the disease
from the United States and reopen the export
trade in live cattle. That can most cheaply
and efiectually be done py killing, not by
Quarantiuing, infected herds.
The New York Bulletin of recent date has
the following:
The recent order of the English Privy coun-
Gil, under which all live cattle shipped from
this country to British ports must be Siaught-
cred within 10 days after landing. has HAD the
effect of almost en- irely suspending shipments
from Philadelphia, in consequence Of the ex-
pense attendant on compliance with the new
regulation, which would render such ventures
profitless. The Ledger. in making this an
nouncement, says: Before the order was
promulgated, arrangements had been made by
one firm of cattle dealers here to ship weekly
for nine months AGO head of live cattle from
this port; but these have now been abandon
ed, and the vessels Intended for the trade are
being used for the transportation of grain,
which is now going forward at a lively rate.
Philadelphia dealers assert that their cattle are
in good condition and free from any un-
nea thy faint, and that if they We're allowed a
longer time than that specified in the order
before being compelled to slaughter, and be
permitted to transport their stock on the hooi
over English railways, the English people, es-
pecIalIy those who desire cheap beef, would
ton"
THE SUGAR TRADE.
During the apst few months there has been a
great deal OF talk regarding the artificial col
oring of sugar To show how far the matter
has gone, we clip the following from the New
York Bulletin of Saturday:
sit was reported yesterday that the expert
ment of washing Dernarara sugar in order to
ascertain whether it had been artificially col
ored having failed, the secretary of the treas
ury has issued an order directing that all Gu
ban centrifugal sugars arriving at this port be
poiariZed and other wise tested 10 order to as
certain whether they are artificially colnred
after crysts llizatton. In cases where the sugs1
is fonnd to be artificially colored an addition
al,duIy OF three quar- tiers OF cent per poundwul
be added as penalty. The order of the Secre
tary provides that the basis of this test shall
be thst sug AZ of 80 degrees shall be considered
as grading as No. Dutch standrrd,"
DAILY RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.
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