The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-26

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CATTLE AND THE FRENCH DROUTH.
There is such a drouth prevailing in
France at present that cattle owners have
been compelled to send their stock to mar
ket half matured. The Paris market has
been flooded at the time of year when the
consumption of meat is at low ebb, and
the result has been a sudden and almost
unprecedented decentralization in the trade.
Within a week cattle declined $40 per head,
OF q quarter OF their value. The supply OF
stock IN France is not large, and this dry
spell may create a shortage which will have
10 be hlled from outside sources.-Drovers'
Journal.
SOUTH ST. PAUL HORSE MARKET
George W. Wentworth & Co., OF the South
St Paul horse exchange report fairly good
trade for the week, especially for heavy daft
horses, With some demand for Western un-
broken animals These are some OF the rep
resentative sales:
Nine drafters, averaging 1,6o0 81 900
len general purpose horses ......... GOD
o"e cur western horses, apiece......... S5
MIDWAY HORSE MARKET
Barrett G. Zimmerman are the on.y dealers
at the Midway horse market making any re-
ports or transactions there. They record
large receipts, especially of heavy drafters,
Ior winch there Is a considerable demand.
The actual trading Of the week was not,
however, heavy. There was a good demand
Tor horses suitable for service in the logging
camps, ana very little call for light farm
stun. some sales were made to-Manitoba
dealers; also to lumbermen in both Mime
sofa and Wisconsin. All the harms at the
Midway are well stocked in anicipation OF
calls that are now due to be forthcom ng
following the winding up OF the harvesting
period.
These are the figures supplied as ruling
Tor serviceab!e sound animals:
nno.. W.T.. Price.
Draters, extra, ranging .............1, 900 14O
Dralters' common, ranging ......,...16 600 80
Farm horses, extra, rang. ng 800 125
Earn hoIseS,- common, ranging .....1, 400 rs
Mules, ranging ...... LOO so
CHICAGO HORSE MARKET.
much stronger tone to the foreign trade
IN horses was given the market at Union
stockyards, Chicago, last Friday by the ar
rlVal OF several new foreign buyers The
general clearance Saturday night was said
10 De more complete than any Saturday since
the middle Of August. Shippers and comm:s
SION dealers are hopeful that the stagnat on
IN the market Is over. The encouraging move
meht IN the demand from most all sources
~ o|iOh6eI vitality IN the trade prog
n0Sucate very satisfactory market this
IAN. Up to last Fridays closing there were
reported here 1,1SS arrivals and 1903 ship
mehts, against 1854 arrivals and 4S1 ship
tnents the week before. Eastern buyers with
tne ADVENT of cooler weather, have been ex-
ecuung much larger orders. Here recently
very good demand sprung up for big. rug
geo Ioggers for the lumber regions North.
some big, coarse drafters without STYLE that
nave been drug on the market found an
outlet to I'LL these orders. Good heavy draft
horses sell for from $50 to 800. Good chunks
weighing 1850 to 1,420 lbs sell at $50 to
$I!0 Drivers sell all the way from S65 to
$Soo and general purpose horses bring sS5
to $50. ~
THE APPLE CROP.
According to the Clyde On. " Times. one
OF the heaviest apple dealers in the United
States, who had just completed a. tour OF
inspection reaching from Maine to Oregon.
states that there will be more apples in the
United States and Canada than there will he
market Tor, and that the coming year will
De the hardest one for apple dealers In their
recent history. Every state has more or less
frult, while Nova Scotia and Canada win
nave crop much like the one in this state
two years ago. When all the fruit Il bar-
vested and put sale in the market II
Will make show that will astonish Commits
SION men. Western New York will have
ABOUT one-quarter Of a crop.-Country G3n-
tleman.