The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-16

market for the week, but not more so than
at the same period Of time last year. The
country trade is over for the spring, and
sales are now dependent upon the retail de-
mand in the two cities and in the country
around about. For this class of trade sound
horses Of high quality, weighing from 1000
to 1,700 pounds, and selling from SIS to $130
are required. Representative sales Of this
firm are reported as follows:
One pair of chunks, $500 pounds, $175;
gray chunk, 1,S0O pounds, $110; plug drivers,
LOO pounds, $11O; roam. 1O5O pounds. $55;
black horse. 1900 pounds $12O; 1 pair Of
coaches, 2,500 pounds, $500; l black driver,
1,1G0 pounds, $3.50.
H. A. Winslow reports fair trade for the
week, with demand for only the very best
quality of horses. There were sold from this
barn during the week 1 pair of draft mares,
3,1O0 pounds, $225; livery horse, $75; chest
nut driver, $780, draft horse, 1850 pounds,
$3.50; l pair Of delivery horses, 2,400 pounds,
s1S5; pair Of farm mares. 200 pounds, $3.50.
Mr.. Winslow received two carloads of horses
during the week-one from A. Tibbitts, Sum-
ner. To-, and one from ]. Henke, of Southern
Minnesota.
D. W. Ringer & Co. report. a good retail
trade for the week. This firm sold one car
load of fourteen head Of ordinary farm stock
at $1,275, for shipment to Winnipeg. Among
their sales during the week were draft mare,
1,500 pounds, s115; 1 draft mare, 1850 pounds,
$3.50; 1 black driving mare, LOO, s16250: 1
pair coach horses, 2,45O, $500; pair cheap
horses, 2,200 pounds, $112.50; pair sorrel cobs.
for drivers. 1915. These sales, other than the
carload lot were to parties in this imme-
diate locality and in Wisconsin, one sale be-
ing in Hudson.
This firm expects a consignment from Mr..
Knott, OF Waverly, TO-, and another from
Southern Minnesota within few days. and in
the latter part Of the week a load will arrive
from LIE Mars. To-, and one lot Of draft
horses from A. Y Weare. also from Iowa.
The following from the New York Evening
Post reflects an Eastern view of the horse
market:
THE HORSES THAT ARE IN DEMAND.
The day Of the horse has not passed. F.
j. Berry, Of the Union stockyards, Chi
cago told the members Of the Stock @ Breed
ers' association at the recent meeting In
St; Paul, and the interest exhibited in the
agreed with him. Electricity and the wheel
have not been without their effect, MIR.
Berry said, but that effect is in driving out
been revolutionized, and the grade has been
raised both In size and quality. The de-
mand is now for larger and better class
the demand for the latter being brought
about by the improvement in the roads in
the interest of the wheel. 1t is Mr.. Berry's
opinion also that this demand will soon be
greater than the supply, and that prices
will rise. During the business depression
he says, and through the influence of the
fear that the bicycle and the trolley had
ruined the market for horses, very many Of
the farmers stopped breeding They met
what demand there was by selling their
best horses, and thus the quality, as we'll
as the quantity, was reduced. For these
reasons Mr.. Berry expects that the quality
of the horses to be offered for the next few
years will be far below grade. With this
prospect and the growth Of the foreign
demand, which, beginning in 1893, rose to
an export Of $4,000 horses in 1897, Mr.. Berry
advises the farmers to breed horses but
to breed with purpose and with the in
tention Of meeting the requirements of some
one Of the five grades in which the mar
kets now classify horses.
THE PRODUCE MARKET.
There has been quiet trade in butter.
eggs and potatoes Farmers who have been
holding on to their potatoes all winter, await
ing the highest prices. are now offering
them in abundance, with resulting decline
in price. Eggs are more plentiful and the
prices have declined to line acceptable to
commission men. There has been NO over