The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-10
BEEF STOCK HIGHER.
Sharply Advanced at Brighton Market
Owing to Better Demand.

Best beef stock has been advanced
quite sharply at the Brighton stock
yards, owing to the better market fol
dressed beef at both wholesale and re-
tail in the Boston market One lot oi
! fancy cattle, five yoke, from New Hamr
shire, came in on Monday and has been
sold at a fraction under lie, the highest
price yet reported. This was an ex.
IRENE, but average tops are also very
| firm, though there is wide gap between
them and fancy lots. For average tops
Hole cents seems to be about the mar
ket, good cattle selling at l0@ll cents
and light cattle at Sol cents.
Similar high prices were realized for
fancy beef cows and bulls, llmllh
cents, being the top for few animals.
While buyers were very keen as one
drover expressed it, ''they want the ami
NAL run in mould and covered with
fat" Jewish buyers are more active,
though the holidays are still having an
effect on trade. The market is going
up steadily, in spite Of all drawbacks,
particularly on the best stock of all
kinds. While fancy cows are selling on
high basis as noted above, average
tops are also higher, but have not shown
as much gain as the better offerings,
having sold at 9ml0 cents, good cows at
500 cents, ordinary cows at GA cents
and Gamer cows at 5M5h cents, Fancy
beef bulls were in sharp demand, and va
rious quotations ranging from l0mllh
cents were heard, with sellers determined
to get all they could. Average bulls
were offered at 7m9 cents, and bologna
bulls at 81 cents.
The demand for calves continues ac.
tive, especially for the best offerings,
though the market was previously
pushed up about as far as it would
stand. Fancy small lots readily bring
around l6M 1874 cents, with bunch lots
at l4@l5 cents. Fair lots are quotable
at l0@l2 cents and grassers and drink
ers at 500 cents. No sheep or lambs
are in the market
There has been another boost in the
price for hogs, both live and dressed,
owing to the big demand and some
what lighter run, both here and in the
west. Embargoes are no longer a big |
factor in the shipment of hogs from the |
west, but traffic difficulties are by no |
means over, as shippers are finding con-
siderable difficulty in getting the neces.
AIRY cars. This is not an embargo, but |
las the same effect. Live hogs were |
eling in the Brighton market yester- |
lay morning at l7h@ls cents, with oc- !
asional fancy lots bringing up to 1881
ents. Rough lots sold at l7@l7i6
ents.
Dressed hogs have been advanced still
urther in price. and are now at about
he highest figures of the war Local
aekers are quoting 221s @23 cents.
gainst 22@2212 cents week ago.
There has been a moderate decrease in
he local kill of hogs, the total reported
or the week by Boston packers being
) 200 hogs. compared with 5000 for the
receding week and $4,000 for the same
eek last wear. Since Jan /. 1918. the
otal kill by Boston packers has been
u, 800 hogs, against AS 900 for the
anne period in 1917.
Drovers complain of the dull demand
Dr milch cows, but this seems to apply
articulariy to ordinary mixers. which
re in ample supply for the demand.
ueh sell at $50 TO $50, and in some