The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-27

duce few carloads. of this sort as Lenten at
fractions. The commission men are getting
lean all over from humping themselves in
trying to get rid of some of the good-natured
looking but unfortunate and worthless ami
mails who would, even if they could speak,
be ashamed to lay claim to classification as
beef cattle. OF course this is not a mar
ket for the prime grades for export. The
demand here is for medium weights at from
100 to 200 lbs which can be relied upon
to bring from $3.50 to 81 10. which is quite as
much as they could be expected to bring at
any market
There Is a good demand for stock heifers
at prices ranging between So and $3.50
The following are soma cattle quotations:
Good to choice beef steers $4.50@5; fair to
coed, s4Q450; coed to choice cows and heif-
ers. sa.50q4; fair to good. $3@3.50; mediu:'
habitat stuff, $2.7513; Gamers. $l50@2.50; fat
bulls. S3G350; bologna bulls, s. 50G3; young
steer bulls to cut. s9G325; steer calves, $4.25
@4.50; heif.r calves, s3.25@3.75; good to
choice stockers and feeders. $3.S5@4.25 fair
to good, s3.50@3.S5; off-colored good-framed
steers around 49, Is, and scrubs and Holsteins,
catch-as-catch- s2.5o@3; stock heifers, So
GS.50; mixers and springers, $30Q40, and
coed cows selling well.
The hcg market has bsen somewhat uncer-
lttH. ne SugDiy was uiOueIdtSiy ldiI dIu
50 also was the quality. Prices have been low
but the view is held that battom has been
reached and that improvement must ensua
at an early day. These are some of the
latest quotations:
Best hogs, 5000. 721a; bulk, $S.65; pigs, Sc. 20
$685. rough sows, S3.25@3.4 40.
Sheep and lambs have been STEADY, with
free offerings. These are some quotations:
Good muttons. s3.50@3.65; medium, $3.50
$50 coed breeding ewes, So 25@3.6O; good
butcher lambs 81 5014.65 m: dunn, $4.2594 40;
buck lambs, $3@3.75; good feeding lambs,
i25@4.50
POOR QUALITY OF CATTLE.
The quality OF cattle was never any poorer
at this time of year. TIL. re are a good many
cattle in the country, but there are not many
good on s in sight. When Chicago can have
1850 cattle one day without forty strictly
choice ones in the whole lot it doesn't look
as if the number of good ones was large.
1t is said that good many cattle are being
forced to market by the spring moving and
changing among farmers. If only the cattle
that were ready fer market were coming the
supply would be extremely small. Feeders
are losing money on a good many of the or
binary cattle that are coming,-Drovers' Jour-
nal.
LOSSES OF RANGE CATTLE
The great loss of live stock on the ranges
this winter is a factor forcing itself on the at
teGltion of feeders and breeders who must in
crease their birds. The supply, which was
only moderate at the beginning of the season,
has been reduced by the severe storms.
Large amounts Of feed have been consumed
in the middle West-Orange Judd Farmer.
GOOD SUPPLY OF LAMBS.
The proportion of lambs In the receipts
has been so large since the first of the year
that buyers have had no difficulty In keep
ing prices down to a very surprisingly low
point. Lambs are selling 40c below the first
of the year, and 6G@75c below a year ago.
The season Is now approaching when receipts
Of lambs will be still heavier, and pros
poets are not very fattering. The prices
of good sheep and lambs are closer together
now than ever before at this season of the
year. due to the comparative scarcity of one
and the abundance of the other.-Drovers'
Journal
LIVE STOCK IN ILLINOIS.
The statistical report of the Illinois state
board of agriculture shows that there is a
larger number of hogs In Illinois than at
any time since 1891, the number reported be-
ing 1854, 452. About SO per cent of the num-
Der assessed each year are marketed during
the year, which would indicate marketing
from Illinois during 1898 of 261S186. The av-
erage live weight of the hogs sold was 22S
lbs. The supply on hand Dec. l. 1893, was
but 81 per cent of that of the corresponding
date Of 1897 Cholera was quite prevalent,
very few herds entirely escaping The num-
Der of cattle reported by assessors was also
greater than any year since 1893, the num-
Der for 1898 being 1S02 061, of which number
20 per cent, or 416S73, were marketed since
May 1, 1898, at average live weight of
1,101 lbs. The supply Dec 1, 1898, as COM
pared with Dec. l, 1887. is 80 per cent. Of
disease there has been some due to eating
moldy corn, and some cases CT so-called
"pink-eye," with a few cases of lumpy jaw
The number Of dairy cows is placed at &c.,
1888. There is a slight increase in sheep, 664-
292 being reported of which % per cent have
been marketed at an average weight of 102
lbs. There has been very little disease among
sheep. Fewer horses were assessed in 1898
than in 1897 by 10000. the number reported
being 92O,563 The number of colts foaled in
1897 is placed at 81, 740 There has been some
southern division Of the state have died
from the effects OF eating moldy and musty
corn.-Iowa Homestead
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK
Receipts of cattle at Chicago last week were
$4,000, as against AZ, 400 the week previous.
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