Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-25


Brighton. Watertown and the local
! slaughter houses.
This week: Cattle 1925, sheep and
| Last week: Cattle 141J. sheep and
| lambs 1913. calves 4406. hogs 20,233.
one year ago: Cattle 1927, sheep and
| lambs 5135. calves 55lS hogs 1lIl6.
TONE OF THE MARKET
The market movement of live stock
at the yards was early, but the stock
| cleaned up slowly TO a dull demand
| in nearly all lines. rejecting the
weak market for dressed, not only at
Boston but at other large live stock
centers. Really fancy beef cattle
We're in limited supply selling at
IL mS1.c, with good steers and oxen
at l.M1l2c, poor and thin oxen at
80 sc. Good COW beef sold as read
| lily as any and fancy COWS and Ecif-
| erS sold at "a &c. Good and med
| iumly good cows at 4s. mJ3,c, poor
to ordinary COWS at 3s4 q &c. Cam
ners and bolognas sold from 2m212c
and slippery cows at 2la l3c. There
! were some extra heavy bulls on the
market, selling at 90 &c from 3l2 to
4ac.
The veal calf market was weak
with shipments cleaning up slowly
at prices no better than a week ago
|
demand for dressed veal is extremely
dull this spring. Fancy lots of fancy
picked calves were taken at 9@11c,
with medium mixed lots at 7@9c
and small calves at 4G5c. Drinkers
and grassers at 5m7c
Few hogs were offered at the yard
and the market WAS steady. Live
hogs sold at 81. 09l4c, dressed 1oa.
U1l4c.
Boston's supply of sheep and
| lambs came entirely from the west.
excepting a few head at the yard.
Market conditions are unchanged.
Sheep quoted at 7@Sc, and wool
lambs 10M 14lac. clipped lambs 90
| 12c. There is a shade firnler tone to
the market for the better grades of
mich COWS, selling at S115 to is,
with the quality averaging higher.
In the mediumly good grades of
which the bulk of the shipment con-
sists, prices range from $6o q 10,
with the poor and ordinary mixers
selling hard at $4,000
The live poultry market was steady.
Fowl quoted at 27@ sc and ROSTERS
1Sm2 zoe.
Held at the yards for feeding We're
six cars of sheep and Is ears Of cat
tie for export, shipped by Thambug
by Wilson company all from Chicago.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef Cattle-T. -. Keenan, sold l
cow 80 lbs. at &c per h.; II cows
av 900 lbs. at : &c; COWS av. 100
lbs, at 240c; ! bur, 200 lbs. ut DC;
bulls at lie. i. NJ. Dana sold
/ COW at . lac. Otis II. Forbush
sold 1 COW. $50 lbs. at lie: ] COW.
900 lbs. at :; PC: l COW. go lbs.
at 31-2c. W. Brooks sold - cows
at IA and lie. \. +. Chicken
ing sold | heifer. $40 lbs, at &c; :.
bulls, .40O HIS. at dc: l Gamer at
&c. F.. Simons sold | COW, 1850 lbs.
at ; PC; :; COWS. $3.50 lbs. at :; ! &c
Veal Calves j. W. Brooks sold
81 calves at Sc. A. f. Chickering
sold 10 calves. 1000 lbs, at &c. and
10 calves, 1470 lbs. at &c, +. NJ.
Dana sold IS calves at Sc, "a calves
at 1 l-2c. A. a. fors sold 81 calves
at 7c, Sc and lie, ana 81 calves at
&c. A. c. Warner sold - calves at
4c and Sc. Fuller Bros. sold n
calves at &c and Sc. Z. Simon sold
. calves at 10c.
lIogs-Otis IF. Forbush sold
hogs, $50 lbs, at &c; 1 hogs. $40 lbs,
at DC; l hos, 30 lbs, at De-; l hog,
go lbs. at 1-2c. Howard Gages
4 hogs, TO lbs. at Sc.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, April 24-The horse mar
ket was active with vigorous spring
| demand which took one of the heav-
lest offerings ever placed on the
market here in a single weeks sale
Prices held firm with some of the
! dealers reporting a higher average
on their better grades of horses.
| There was every kind of a horse
| offered from the heavy draft horses
down to fancy ponies. and they all
| found purchasers by the weeks end.
very few being unsold. A large per
cent of the horses We're taken by'out
| of state buyers but there was also
an active local demand which called
almost wholly for drafters. and gem
eral wagon horses. There were
several carloads OF. wood horses and