Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-05
LIVE STOCK.
East Liberty.

ceipts to-day $40 head through. Moth.
ing for sale here: total for two DAYS, IS9
head OF through and l2S head Of local.
The run for this weeks sales has been
lighter than usual, with like demand.
Prices are also q trifls of from this day
a week ago. There is nothing doing
here to-day. A few loads are expected.
There has been demand for stockers
and feeders, which were very scarce.
Prices are about as follows, but they
have been very fluctuating all week:
Best shipping grades on hand s. 5OC9
5 75; good butchers stock, $50 TO ], 400
lbs, 81 S0(d5 IS; common TO fair, 800 to
100 lbs, s. O094 IS; stockers aud feed
ers scarce and in demand 81 5Od4 90;
bulls, fat cows and stays IS OOl9i %.
Sales to-day 81 head; for the last two
days 2ll head. z,
Hogs-Receipts to-day 725 head; for
two days 1925 head; Philadelphiss 81 40
66 so; Workers S. 00Cd6 20.
Shecp-Receipts to-day 500 head; for
two days 100 head; clipped Hing
at 81 5Oid5 10; wooled sheep, no demand.
CHICAGO, May 4.-The Drope-, Jour
nal bureau reports: Hoqs-Receipts
24.OOO head; shipments $500 head;
slow and Sc lower; common to good
mixed packing S. $500 10; choice
heavy packing and shipping " 2oC9
8 SO; light bacon S5 lOg6 10. ..
Cattle-Receip.s 6,0O0 head; ship.
ments 5000 head; market stronger
and active and l0c higher; exporters
buyinp freely at s. 5OCd5 S5; no really
choice offered; fair TO good shipping
Is 2OG,5 40; dis.illers 81 95G5 30;
butchers active and firm; cows and
heifers 81 SOFAS %; bulls $3 OO{S4 70;
stockers ami feeders in good demand
at So 5O(d5 ID.
Sheep-Receipts 100 head; ship
ments 900 head; market strong; shorn
sheep s. 75Cd4 SO; lair 70 good wooled
IS SOFAS 75; choice 81 0O(S8 %.
Cincinnati Horse and Mule Market
CiycIYNArI, May 4.-The demaLd ior
stock exceeds the supply. The past
week there we're sold about per cent.
less head than the previous week, but
at nearly $40 per head more money. lts
average, sll445, is So. 40 better than oil
April, 1880, ard $32 4s better than the
average for the last ten Aprils.
MANY more good horses and large
"blocky" mules could have been readl.
ly sold At excellent prices II they had
been upon the market. But farmers are
now too busy TO resort TO centers with
surplus stock, and too independent in
their circumstances 10 even exhibit and
price their horses and mules to the buy
ers who visit them.
The past month there we're sold near.
ly 32 per cent. more head than April,
1850, and at sl02. "a, as against tss w, or
against a general average or $sl.S1 ior
the last ten Aprils.
This wear, 10 far, there have been sold
last. At an average OF $50 "a. against
1881. We quote range OF prices as fol.
lows: Driving horses, $l5O(s3OG draft
horses. $l40G225: street car horses, sl0o
0l2O: Southern chunks. $4OCS65; South.
ern plugs, S25(S5i; mules. aged = to y
Years l5l TO lG hands, si35i9lS5; mules,
tx IN Isl hands, SilOial40; mules, l4i
TO 10 hands, $75Csl00;l4 to l4i hands,
$50Cg75.
PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-The arrivals
Of live stock at the various yards were:
For the week, 2, 800 head OF cattle; 5000
head of sheep; 3 600 head Of hogs. Prs
yious week, 2. 800 head OF cattle; 900
head of sheep; $500 head OF hogs. Bee
Cattle-Tbe market d uring the past week
was quite active, and with lair iemsnd
and moderate receipts, prices we're nrnl
at last quotations, viz: Ertra 6fsotci
good. 6Ca8,c; medium, 6fa5Ic; COM
mon I,,s.5:c. Fat Cows and Bulls were
in GOOD demand at3(a5c. Slippery Cows
were dull at sl5 OOta25 90, while Bolog
ma Cows were neglected at $40 00s
rs On. Calves were fairly active at Je
Tic. the latter for choice Pennsylvania
Mich cows were fairly active and s.le'
At sos Oo,66O 90 we're recorded, the lat
ter Tor choice stock.
sbeep-The market during the early
part Of the weak was dull and lover
but at the close prices were hrmer we
Suote wool sheep at 5iG7c; clipped
sheep at 465i: fall lambs at 6tC57tc;
snring lambs at 81 5OS6 25; "a choice
heavy clipped sheep sold at &c:
Hogs were in good demand during the
week and prices were unchsnged. Ihe
onnt.,ions wer. as follows: Ertra 9tta
SIc lgood s,69ic; medium siSstc.
Eev YorK.
Sxv YeRK, May 4-Drocen Jo.Sn
a. bureau reports: Bseves = Rsceipt,
for two dsys 4, 800 head. The demand
,xeeeded the supply; market sctive
Arm and higher. The arrivsls included
20 car Dads OF export cattle; the remain
ing l65 carloads changed hands at l0tte
Ilir: few sales at I2c. Shipments yes
terdsy and to-day III head Of live cattle
/ 63o quarters OF beef. The steamers 70
morrow take AS head Of live cattle, 6o(
quarters Of beef, 1000 live sheep and
zoo careases Of mutton. ,
sheep-Receipts for tvo days II -
head: fsir business and easier pre-
shorn s6 Oo67 Is PER 100 pounoe
siinoea do S a5s5 s7i; unshorn yess
linps s6 75tS7 IS; clipped DO . We
6 63l; spring lambs - SosA 70 Pe
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