The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-13

tives, $1eo03.50 stockers and feeders, $3.50
GAS; bulls, $2.5043.75. Hogs, receipts, 1000;
shipments. 800; market firmer; bulk of sales,
s4.10@4.25; heavies. $.20d4 IS; packers $40
40; mixed, $4@4.2O; lights. $1,000. 10; york.
ers, $4.O5Q4.20; pigs. $3.9O641O. Sheep, re-
ceipts, 1900; shipments none; market strong;
range Of sales, $2.25@4.3O.
st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March n-Cattle, receipts,
$500; shipments, 300. Market strong and
for Texans higher; light native steers $3.50
@4OO; fair to medium, $4.2OG4.6O; good to
choice, A75Q5.S; feeders, s. 4O@3.50; cows,
$2.00d3.OO; grass Texas steers, $25Od3. so;
fed do. $3.5O04.4O; cows, ST. 75I2.5O. Hogs,
receipts 400; shipments, 1900. Market
firm; 1Oc higher; heavy, A3OQ4.45; mixed,
A.10@43O; light, A0O@4.2O. Sheep, receipts,
2,1O0; shipments none. Market strong Fed
Texas, $3.50; native mixed, $375@4.40.
OMAHA, March 11.-Cattle, receipts, 1900;
market 1Oc higher; steers. So. 80G525; bulk,
$4.25G4.S5; cows and heifers, $1.25@3.60 bulk,
81. 25G3: stockers and feeders, $225@3.75;
ket opened 10c higher, closed strong; light,
$3S0041O; mixed, $4@4.10; heavy, A.05G4.S.
Sheep, receipts, 1900: market strong; fair
to choice natives, S3@425; fair to good west
ems, $2.75@4; common stock sheep, $2@3
Seed Markets..
CHICAGO, March 1.-THE faxseed mar
ket ruled active and strong, but f1uctua ted
within narrow limits. Cash flax closed at
s1.4 per bu and $1.41 for May delivery
Timothy seed closed at $3.50 per 100 lbs and
clover seed at $3.50 per 100 lbs.
Government Crop Report.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10.-The
crop report of the department of agri-
culture for the month Of March, consists
principally of estimates of the distributions
of corn and wheat, the stocks remaining
in the hands of farmers and the proportion
or merchantable and unmerchantabla. rhe
report is based on country estimates of the
percentage of last years product remain-
ing in first hands. Obvious errors and in
conslstencies of statement being Corrected
and differences harmonized, all grain in
the hands of farmers, including amounts
remaining over from previous years are
embraced in the estimates given The corn
on hand, estimated, aggregates 49,
56445O blu, or 1872 per cent Of the last crop.
rms proportion has been exceeded but four
times In the last 10 years, the quantity,
however. is an unprecedentedly small one.
The consumption of corn for eight months
is an unusually small one, which fact is
explained by the large amounts of wheat
fed to stock The aggregate sold from
farms to go beyond county boundaries is
162, $40, or 1874 per cent of the crop. The
proportion merchantable is 9o9, 400 GOO blu, or
OF pei ceAl. Inc ValueS returned Tor mef-
charitable corn average 44.s, for unmer-
charitable, 2S6, making an aggregate value
of sos, TILES, which is $46,U0O,O00 less than
the December valuation Of the CROP and
averages 41.9 per bushel. The estimated
amount of wheat in farmers hands, 75000,-
600 blu, or 1853 per cent of the last crop,
and 100000 bu less than last March. The
explanation for this enlarged measure is to
be found in the last fact, hat the large
quantities have been fed to hogs and other
stock. Returns from North and South Da-
kota, Nebraska and Kansas indicate I'M
precedented exhaustion of last years crop,
correspondents in many counties reporting
not enough on hand for spring seed and
necessary food supply