Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-05

~ cts, coarse ana thin calves 5@7
cts.
Hogs suffered another severe de-
cline. Live hogs We're in very light
supply at the yards, and sold from
500 cts Dressed hogs were quot
ed at II 1-4@l2 IA cts, u drop of
fully Il cent from last week. There
was fairly good. supply of western
hogs at the packing houses.
Sheep and lambs We're scarce, both
at the yards and the slaughter
houses. There was no change in the
market, which ranged from 3@6 cts.
for sheep and 7@11 cts. for lambs.
Mich COW trade continued quiet
with the barn moderately filled.
While there is no change in the gen.
Cral range of prices, the average Is
lower within that range and fewer
cows bring the higher prices. Best
heavy mixers $150@200, good quail
ity $t006p150, poor to ordinary 500
100.
The market for live poultry was
higher. with fowl 3SW37 cts, and
chickens 32M34 cts.
TUESDAY BRIGHTON SALES
Beef Cattie-Otis II. F'oTbuSh sold
. steers. 1909 lbs. at &c; l bull, 1880
lbs. at &c; bull, ITO lbs. at &c. and
81 off; cows, 1860 lbs. at l-2c.: I
cows. $3.50 lbs at Sc. J. j. Neylon
sold 5 COWS, 1910 lbs. at &c. II cows
II $50 lbs at &C; cow $40 lbs. at Sc.
]. w. Ellsworth sold 2 cows, 1850 lbs.
at SC.
Veal Calvcs--Otis II. Forbush sold
| calf 80 lbs. at 13c.: l fancy calf at
16c.; 2 calves, 1870 lbs. at Toe; calves
at lie. ]. -. Neylon sold calves,
1880 lbs at &c. G. A. Eastman sold
45 calves at 14c. J. W. Ellsworth sold
% calves. 1850 lbs at 12c.
Hogs-C. A. Eastman sold hogs at
91-2c
Mich Cows-J. W. Ellsworth sold
s mixers to av $50 each. J. d. Ney-
lon sold mixers to av. s75 each.
THE HORSE MARKET
Boston. Jan. 4-The market was
very quite during the week with sup
plies light and the demand dull, which
is not at all unusual for the last
week OF the year. At most of the
sales there was from one to two car
loads of fresh country horses offered
and these with the usual entry of
nearby seconds took care of the trade
of the week. Prices were easy, but
held within the previous range. Dur
ing the latter half of the past year
the horse market has been rather
dull, owing largely to the heavy trad
ing at the beginning of the year when
the Government turned in large num-
bers of army horses for sale. At
these sales of Government horses
prices did not average very high,
as in the sales Of the year before,
when some very good horses were
on sale. This year the bulk Of the
horses were from the training camps
and had seen hard work and showed
it's effects. The cheap price attract
ed buyers and they sold quickly. but
these forced sales had the effect Of
curtailing the demand for green
horses at the high prices that they
sold for at that time, and in conse-
quence prices of green western Of
ferings were cut down materially for
a time, quickly recovering in both
demand and values as soon as the
surplus of horses in the country was
disposed of. At the close of the year
the range of prices on all horses of
good condition were fully as high as
year ago. Good green drafters, 100
@1900 lbs. sold at s325Ms400; medium
drafters, green. of 1500d1700 lbs. sold
at $275@s325; wagon horses, 1900 to
400 lbs, at $165@s250; good condition
ed acclimated horses, fresh from
short service sold at s150@$325, for
horses of 1900 to 1900 lbs. weight.
Seconds of inferior quality have been
in large supply throughout the year
and although some are badly blem-
ished they are almost always sold
readily enough. although prices are
very low and the amount Of work
that they are good for is small.
When young woman applied to a
Detroit. Mich. housewife for a posi- :
ton as a domestic she specified that
she must have garage room for her