Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-11

wEsT PHILADELPHIA STOCK YARDS. March g.
Cattle-Market active; receipts, 1900 head;
prime, 5ka6c.; good, 4&a5kc; medium, AKA
Axe: common, "a ash
Sheep-Market active: receipts, 7OOO head;
prime, 6haB%c.: go1d, 5Aa6c; medium, AKA
hogs-Narket active; receipts, 6,SnO head;
selling western, g. SabAc,
CHICAGO, March ,-Cattle-Receipts, 200
head; shipments, 1000 head; o market, shade
and feeders, S3.00a335; cows, bulls and mixed,
81 75a4 90; bulk, s3.O0a3.2O. Hogs = Receipts,
$1,000 head shipments. 5000 head market,
Sag0a4. 25; packing and shipping 25a4 50:light,
S370a4.25; skips, S3.0Oa3.75, Sheep-Receipts,
5000 head. shipments, l,50O head market,
The Dr0pers Journals special cablegram from
Liverpool indicates a strong cattle market, best
grades showing 1c. advance over last week, sell
ing at l4c. dressed. The advance in prices Is
due to light supplies. Receipts Of American
cattle are reported light, and supplies from
other points baye lately been moderate.
NEW YORK, March Observation-Disclosures, in
GLIDING 90 car loads for expectation, were 1854
car loads, or $50 head, making $500 head for
the week prices were 1nal5c. per 100 pounds
higher, and the market closed Arm, with nothing
to carry over poor to prime steers sold at 81 40
az per 100 pounds; tops at S605a6 Is; bulls and
dry COWS at ss.25a4.25; no exports of live stock
or fresh meat to-day; the weeks shipments
were $50 beeves, 90 sheep, ,2S0 quarters of beef
aud 500 carcasses of mutton. Sheep-Receipts,
1860 head a few car loads of choice and extra
Gnttp at BbOh
but middle and lower grades ruled dull, and the
general market closed weak at a reduction Of
! fully ne. per oini, with several car 10 DIS 70
carry over; ordinary to extra sheep sold at IA
| SIC per pound, and ordinary TO fancy lambs at
/ 6a7kc Hogs-Receipts, "a car loads, or II $50
head none offered alive; nominally steady at
"a 30a4 60.
BUFFALO, N Y, March -Cattle-Receipts,
/ 1,255 head; market dull and 15a25c. lower than
/ on last Monday; common to medium $3.50
/ aA5O; good to choice shipping, s4.75a5; extra
i steers, s.. 25a5.60: stockers and feeders quiet
| and steady at S3a4; fat bulls, dull and weak
| at So 50af so; milch cows in fair demand and
strongerat $S5a45; veals, In fsir demand at s5a
| G.: all offerings taken. Sheep-Receipts, 5000
| head market 15a25c. lower than on Saturday;
| common to fair, 81 25a5; good to choice, s5.2s
5.75; few extra brought 50; Lambs, weak
| common to fair, 425R5; good to choice, S515a
6.75; extra, 81; above quotations are for best
istock here; market closed dull and weak 81
Dads left over. HOgs-Receipts, 6,O95 h, I'D
market active, firm and higher; pigs and lighl
| mixed, 81 ba4.35; selected York weights, 81 40a
| 4bO: light to choice medium weights, 81. 80
few loads fancy do sold S4.65a4.70; no choice
| heavy here; selected heavy ends, silOa4 so
coarse mixed do, s. 75a4 10; all offerings taken
EAST LIBERTY, PA, March 6-Cattle-R Receipts
1928 head shipments, 22S head; market fair a
, last weeks prices. Hogs-Receipts, $500 head
shipments, 1890 head: market slow; Philadel
phfas, $i.55a4.65; Workers, S420a4.30. Sheep
| Receipts, $500 head shipments, $500 head
| market slow at about last weeks prices.
BALTIMORE, March 8.-Beef Cattle-Marke
generally slow, closing dull with a remnan
] left prices, considering improved quality, un