Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-05-08

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Cattle Markets.
WEST PHILADELPHIA STOCK YARDS. May
5-Cattle in fair demand; receipts, 32fO head:
Prime, 674a7c.; good 614a61sc.; medium. 5sz aec.;
.sheep-receipts 5000 head; wooI sheep, 4<a
a7c 0'- vi
-, Hogs, In fair demand Western stock. TIA
NEW YORK, May 5-Reeves-Receip a 800
head. making 1889 head for the week
Market Glow, with dnll finish and a small
reduction on oomu and medium grades
excepting few very poor straw stock cattle,
which sod at s .50a5.7O per 800 pounds live
welght am 2 mail number of picked extra
lUO pounds live weight for steers and sf.5pa3
for bulls exporters used 90 fat steers.
sheee-Re, aip's, s,iOO head, akipg 2i,iO0
head for the week active and firm at strong
prices, with an early clearance at 1876 as per
100 pounds for unshorD sheep S5.5Js6 rs for
clipped sheep s7.50a9 for nnshorn yearlings
s7.2laS for clipped yearlings, and 81 to IS per
heal for spring lambs. Hogs-Receipts, 3,240
mead making $500 for the week no trading
In live hogs nominal value, f5.2Oa5s0per TO
pounds.
BUFFALO. May 6-Cattle-R Receipts, l,25y
head market unsettled and lower, offerings
generally of good quality, but only light pro-
portion of choice stock light attendance of
eastern buyers; local and country trade fairly
represented; fair to medium hatcher grades,
from bDU to $50 pounds. SNDDalO 40. of 900
pounds, I5.75; shippers steers, So. 25a650; poor
TO good Texans, 81. 75a6lO, Sheep and lambs-
Receipts to-day, 6S u head; demand fair, but
prices shade lower; offerings compare favor
ably with last weeks, pril cipally clipped; fair
TO- TO- good clipDed, s5.soa3 10; of fair 70 good
81. 4uaSOO, all sold. Hogs 9eeeipts to-day,
u $50 head; demand good; of rings generally of
$50; butchers grades, S5.g0aB 10; good to
choice, S6.lUa62O, ali sold. Yards bare of
Stock
O. IcAGo, May 5.-Hogs-Receipts, 1900
head; shipments, LOO head; market brisk
and iOc. higher; rough packing, s525a5.85;
packing and SHINING s5sOa6 Us; light s52a
5.s5 skips, si.OOs5.tO. attle-Receipts. 500
head; shipments, LOO head; market SLOW
but steady; exports, 90. 80; good to
choice shipping ss.S5a6.20; common to medium,
s. .25a5.S0. Sheep-ReceIpls, 400 head; ship
ments, 400 head; market, slow and 10alSc.
lower inferior to fair, fSa4 u cwt; medium to
Liverpool quotations Foreign live sto k,
weaker best American steers, l5xc. per
pound dead weight' sheep, l6al7c. per pound
dead weight.
BALTIMORE, May 5.-Beef cattle maj ketslow,
and best grades &c. and others Nc. loweriyery
best las Bloc; first quality 4Jsa55Sc medium,
ia11sc.; ordinary. 315a4s4c.i most of the sales
were from &C. to &C.; receipts, i,52i head
sales, 6A head. 4wine-Fair supply and only
moderate demand; receipts, 4.4S4 head; quota
tions, Bs4a794c. The receipts of sheep and lambs
were ., 81 head quotations., sheep at 34a6c.;
ambs at 7a9Bc.
EAST LIBERTY, May 5.-Cattle strong at last
weeks opening prices receipts, 1881 head;
,4L6 head. Hogs slow receipts,
$500 head shipments, 1865 head Philadel.
Dhias, p5.S5a5.t5; Workers., S5.iOa5.60. Sheep,
1paned active and lUal5c higher, but closed at
Saturd US closing pr ces; receipts, 1900 head;
shipments, 12OO head.