Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-01
MAINE STOCK AT MARKET
TONE OF THE MARKET

| Cattle las, sheep and lambs 9J1,
calves 442s. hogs 1881.
| TONE OF THE MARKET
The beef cattle market was weak
| due to excessive receipts of medium
and poor grade COWS, making the
| largest amount seen at the yards for
years. The market was off IL cent
| below last weeks decline Few
| fancy cattle were offered but on these
of strictly high grade prices held
! fairly firm at 9M10c, with good choice
| steers and oxen at 7M8c with poor
oxen and light secrs at 4M5c. FIncy
cows also were in light supply. sell
ing at los lie; medium 20 good
COWS at 3 1-2Mi 1-2c; poor and or
binary COWS at 1-2M3 lie; bologna
! and Gamer COWS at l LEAP Lie;
bulls 3M5c.
! Veal calves were in heavy supply
i with the market steady. Fancy lots
of choice COWS sold at 10@12c: lots
Of average quality mixed calves at
SM10c; drinkers and grassers at so
! &c.
Rejecting western markets. the
hog market declined here about Il
cent pound. Few We're offered at
the yards but western receipts
showed an increase. Live hogs sold
at 90 9 3-4c, and dressed at II Il
| az lac.
There was a heavier shipment of
sheep and lambs for the Boston
| market than for several weeks. Goth
| from the West and Canada, and also
| from the New England states. The
market was active and firm Sheep
sold at 3@6c., and lambs 1-2e2l3c
There was a moderately heavy
shipment OF mich cows. Prices
! changed at the recent level. Fancy
and graded cows sold at s110@s165,
| with good to choice COWS at s60Gsl10.
and poor and ordinary cows at $50
ms50. fr
The live poultry market was steady.
Fowl quoted at 25M 26c, and chicken
at 22GIo4c.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef cattle-J. w. Brook. sold /
pr. fancy steers. 2770 Tbs at Sc. Otis
H. Forbush sold COWS at lac, l
COW at Sc, 2 cows at lac, COW at
&c. and l COW at 1-2c.
! Veal Calves-A. f. Chickering sold
40 calves at 10 1-2c. Otis H. Forbush
sold ? calves at 10 lac, l small calf
at So and l small calf at $3.50. B. f.
&, +. \. Howard sold % calves at I
M10c. i. r. Howard sold 25 calves
at Sc. r. l.. Wormel sold Al calves
al 9 1-2c.
Hogs-D. a. Walker sold 5 hogs at
&c. r. l.. Wormell sold 80 hogs at
. 1-2c.
Sheep and lambs-F'. O. Thompson
sold 400 sheep and lambs, sheep at
&C and lambs at 12-13c.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, Oct. 31-The horse market
was again marked by the Irregular
ity Of its demand and the prices at
which the horses were sold at the diff
| Tcrent sales of the past week. While
one dealer reported that the market
was firm with a picking up in the
i demand, another claimed that he had
never while in business seen horses
sell as poorly as at the present time.
!
the horses were however generally
! cleared up. as at such times it is the
! SPECTATORS time to buy for rcselling.
! There has been an excessive supply
Of horses offered at this market by
western cOnsigncrS, although the
western market is strong, there seems
TO be surplus of horses. which the
: breeders wish to dispose of, rather
than to hold and feed One Of the
most important curtaiing in the de-
mand at this market has been during
the past two or three years the
! stand still in the lumber business,
which has hurt the fall demand ma
terially
Good quality heavy green drafters
sold at s275@350 for horses of 100
to 1900 TBS weight: drafters of 1850 to
1900 lbs at s1750 $50; wagon horses.
farm chunks, 1900 to 400 ID at s135
| AGO: good acclimated horses. 1900 to
1900 TBS at $1,000 225: blemished sec
, onds were hardly wanted at any
price. but generally sold at s25675.
J. c. Keith sold to a dull demand
and lower prices, express carloads
Of green western horses and 100 ac-
, climated and seconds. This week
there will be offered at this stables
carloads of green western horses
and large number Of seconds.
J. !. Brooks sold at his Traverse
street stables $50 head Of fresh and
acclimated horses. The demand was
active and they closed out at fair
values. This week there will be
three carloads Of green horses and
the usual entry of seconds.