Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-03

4 1-2l5 lie high and at the close at
2 1-2n3 lie.
The veal calf trade was particularly
good during the larger part of the year.
returning good profits. with higher
prices received than during the proceed
ing year, especially for fancy veals.
The highest prices were paid in jan
uary and February when fancy veals
sold at 1SG21c, with average quality,
mostly in mixed lots, at 14@1Sc. In June
shipments of calves were heavy and the
market declined 5@Sc. Later they adj
vanced about cents holding at that
level until the sharp break i'm Decem-
Der when fancy calves sold at 12@l4c,
with average veals at 9G12c. Drinker
and eraser calves sold at range OF
5G12c during the year.
The hog market received its supplies.
as usual. largely from the west being
shipped directly to the packing houses.
and shipments from New England
points at the yards have ruled much
lighter than before owing to u great
scarcity of hogs in the country. The
hog market has been a sort OF a gam
BILE throughout the year, seldom holding
at the same quotations for two weeks
at time. Although high prices were
paid during the first half of the year,
at no time did the market reach the
record breaking prices of July and Au-
gust of 1919, when local dressed hogs
sold at 2SG29c, and live hogs a; 21G22
1-2c. The highest prices of 1920 came in
September when live hogs sold at 16
1-2@17 1-2c and dressed hogs at 21G22c.
In October there was a sharp decline,
since which there was no advance until
the last week of the year when hogs
sold about l cent higher. In the week
of December q, hogs, sold at the lowest
point of the year, when live hogs sold
at 9di10c and dressed hogs at II LA
70 1-4c. These figures also being the
lowest prices since the year of 1916
Receipts of sheep and lambs were
the largest in several years. Maine
shipments being the heaviest since
the year of 1915 and those from
Vermont, since 1913, while other
sources of supply, nearly all showed
an increase ever those of 1919. At the
beginning OF the year the market was
and June at S@14c, and lambs at 14M
1Sc. which was the high point of the
year and two cents above the high
market of 1919. Like other lines OF
stock prices began going down in the
latter part OF June, but with grad
ual decline of a cent a pound at a
time until the low market was reach
ed in the closing prices of December
when sheep sold at 3@5o and lambs
at 7011c. During the year a good
many clipped sheep have been sent
to market, us the producer could sell
the wool separately at a better profit,
so urgent was the demand for wool.
The mich cow market has run
fairly even as to prices during the
year, but while prices have held firm
on all good heavy mixers, the mar
ket has ruled Gull and unsatisfactory.
Farmers have asked high prices for
their cows of all grades and have sold
a large amount of inferior cows for
which there was little demand at the
Brighton market, so that losses to
shippers on this class often offset the
profit on the better cows. The de-
lOI ali SONS CASSPlluS tuC Scob
to choice mixers has been dull and
inactive. The average range of
prices on good mixers has been from
s100@150. with fancy cows selling.
when the demand was most urgent
up to 1925. Poor cows sold at 5000
100. There has been no change dur
ing the year in the law for tuberculin
testing of COWS. the only difference
the year has shown being in the
larger number of cows which come in
on approved test papers from their
own states.
The following table is a summary
of the livestock received during the
year of 1920 at the Brighton Stock
Yards. Brighton Abattoir. Watertown,
the New England Dressed Meat &
Wood Company, Squire & Company,
and the North Pkg. Company, includ-
ing comparison with the ten preced-
ing years.