The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-05
LIVE STOCK.

THE receipts of cattle at the exchanges in this
city during the past week have been In excess of
any other since early in the winter The quail
ity, however. has been far from good and while
they now exhibit better flesh than they did few
weeks ago, there are very few in condition suit
able for shipping. There are no Stall-fed cattle
offered on the market, although few are said 10
have been fed some grain ,hey cannot lie graded
AS such Cattle suitable for shipping would
bring good price and find plenty # buyers
Veal calves are in demand, but the offerings are
light There were to-day few mutton sheep In
the pens and although not strictly In prime con
dition found anxious buyers, The supply of
hogs is far in excess Of the demand for as the
season advances there is less enquiry ON the part
of butchers Prices of all kinds of stock are
firm, except for hogs, which have declined fully
one cent in the last week
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
BEEF CATTLE-Corn-ted, 3@3h cents.
BARN Cows--Fat 3(d3k cents.
SluPPlEG-3A6gi cents.
STCCK-Per head, Sl5@ps20.
Mich Cows-Wth calves s258s40.
SPRISGERs-Per head, sl0@S30
Hods-Corn-ied, 6@Gh cents; timber fat 4D5;
stock. 3@4H
sHREr-Mutton, SG@Sh cents; stock, per head
sl.60@s2 90.
HoRsEs--Extra nne per span sGOO@S5OO fancy
firm sj0@sl25; ponies, Sl5@sS0.
MuLEs-Extra heavy Sl25@s20G medium $500
30; small SS0@S5.
California has an important and growing live
stock trade with the Sandwich islands
Illinois sent 3t000,O00 head of live stock into
the market last year
A carload of cattle shipped from Hamburg,
Iowa. by Mr. NJ. u Payne, aud received in Chi
Cago, contained two domestic buffalo COWS. They
averaged 1850 pounds, and We're sold to II city
butcherby Strader 4 Son at 81 Us per hundred
weight
Montana sheep men are In high spirits at the
prospect for large increases in their iocks this
spring Their ilocks have wintered with little
loss and the prospect fOran early spring is good.
A gang of thieves In the Chicago stock-ysrds
who have, during the past two or three years,
stolen Sl050O0 worth of live hogs, has just
been broken up.
The Drovers' Journal Liverpool cable this
week shows no material changes in foreign live
stock markets. Cattle are selling at l5c to l7c for
the estimated dead weight, while sheep are
making about Ice to zoe for fair to best
The Illinois department of agriculture publish
figures showing the value OF fat hogs marketed
in the state during 1881 was s2S 600 600 fat cattle
SD 900 900: fat sheep, $1,000 Co., total $40 600
A Boston paper says, In order to thoroughly
understand the quotations of live stock prices,
rs given In our markets, the reader should re.
member that they are for the weights OF stock MS
sold here. In cattle, for instance there is an
average shrinkage perhaps, taking the year
throughout, OF ~ To 70 pounds between farm
weights and market weights, When, therefore,
l,3OO pound cattle are quoted here the stock TO
fill the bill must weigh $50 10 1865 pounds on
the farm. The bullock which would tip the
scales at |, 300 pounds Mt home wonld fall cORsd.
erably short Of that classification here"
Weclipthe following from the Pittsburgh Stock.
man of n late date: Thegrowth ofthe sheep bust.
ness In the west Is one Of the maryels in the
livestock revival In the United States. We, of
the east who have been accustomed to furnish
ing the wool and the mutton OF the country
have been little slow 10 recognize the fact that
the time is coming and is not far away, when
the matter of leadership in this industry will be
holly contested by sections. In which, five years
ago, not fleece was grown-but that time Is
coming nevertheless. This is shown in various
ways, but In none so strikingly as In the growth
of the mutton trade In the iat.stock markets OF
the west, Chicago alone Is now receiving sever
nj times as many sheep rs were marketed In the
entire west few years ago and will soon be
the lrSt In this, us now in all other lines Of
stock, in the world. Though Pittsburgh is still
the foremost sheep market IN the Union, We
can see It's leadership gradually slipping away
although the number of sheep marketed here
more than holds its own and within n year or
two Chicago will be VI the front. This Is newt.
able, and may rs well he recognized first us last
The Sheep.producing capacity of the west Is
almost illimitable, and the enterprise Of stock.
men must be the measure of the growth of the
business In that region.